Hatching shipped eggs

[JudysMuscovy]

1st baby hatched polish frizzle

 

[Brentqu]

I love this free app on my iPhone!

 

[Brentqu]

It has a cool timeline too!

 

[JudysMuscovy]

View attachment 1347321 It has a cool timeline too!

Yup I use the same app and love it!

 

[Compost King]

I just candled my first hatch from shipping eggs, other than the 20% of the Serama eggs that were duds (genetic defect) I only had one bad egg. What I did before I started the hatch was to put the eggs in my egg turners outside of the incubator and let them turn for a day. I read others do not turn them at first. However I was pretty successful for up to the 10 day candling point. Can't claim success yet but if these are successful at filling my brooder on May 1st or 2nd I will continue to turn my eggs at room temperature for a day before incubating. I started out with 26 Serama eggs, 10 Ayam Cemani eggs and 6 of my own Maran black sex links (Black Cooper Maran over my Cuckoo Marans) I just hatch those to fill the Incubator. I did notice that the Serama eggs that lived were far more developed than the full sized chickens which may lead to early lockdown. I am guessing that I might want to keep Humidity way down before day 16 and go into lock down 2 days early since the Seramas might hatch a bit earlier. I might also want to not mix my hatches, either do Seramas only or full size only, Or start the seramas 2 days later... we will see what kind of mess I got myself into this time.

 

[JudysMuscovy]

4 polish frizzle and 2 lavender Americana so far

 

[JudysMuscovy]

12 eggs hatched 6 lavender Americana 6 polish frizzle 3 more to go

 

[JudysMuscovy]

12 eggs hatched 6 lavender Americana 6 polish frizzle 3 more to goView attachment 1348420

8 polish frizzle and 6 Americana

 

[2 many chickens]

8 polish frizzle and 6 Americana

Congrats! All so cute! Kinda jealous lol today is day 21 for me on my 4th batch and no pips or nothing.. got a new Inc but the temp fluctuate often so I don't know if that's playing a big part right now...

 

[JudysMuscovy]

Congrats! All so cute! Kinda jealous lol today is day 21 for me on my 4th batch and no pips or nothing.. got a new Inc but the temp fluctuate often so I don't know if that's playing a big part right now...

I bought a new incubator the Brinsea Maxi Ii advance- this is my best hatch ever! I have a styrofoam one. I have been using previously. Ok hatches but not as good as this batch. It was costly - but I bought the eggs off eBay and wanted to be sure I had a good hatch. The incubator is awesome