High temps for a week.

[Brittbee]

I went back through this twice, I could not see where you said when you started them or what days Wednesday or Thursday are. You can lock them down as normal, after 18 days of development. That will probably be in time but I would not go any longer. Locking down a day earlier, after 17 days of development should be OK also. I'm not sure which I'd do if it were me.

I should have said that too, they were set on 3.13 if that helps.

 

[Ridgerunner]

It does, more than you might think. March 13 was a Monday. Normal lockdown would be on Friday March 31. One day early would be Thursday March 30. I think you made a very common mistake.

An egg does not have a day's worth of development the instant it goes into the incubator. It takes 24 hours for the egg to develop a day's worth. So when you count you say "one" the day after you put them in the incubator. One way to check your counting is the day of the week you start them is the day of the week the 21 days is up. In your case that would be Monday April 3.

Lots of people make that mistake, it is a common reason hatches are thought to be late. But even when locking down a day early, most people still get good hatches. You want to do everything right but there is some wiggle room in a lot of this. Just do the best you can.

 

[Brittbee]

It does, more than you might think. March 13 was a Monday. Normal lockdown would be on Friday March 31. One day early would be Thursday March 30. I think you made a very common mistake.

An egg does not have a day's worth of development the instant it goes into the incubator. It takes 24 hours for the egg to develop a day's worth. So when you count you say "one" the day after you put them in the incubator. One way to check your counting is the day of the week you start them is the day of the week the 21 days is up. In your case that would be Monday April 3.

Lots of people make that mistake, it is a common reason hatches are thought to be late. But even when locking down a day early, most people still get good hatches. You want to do everything right but there is some wiggle room in a lot of this. Just do the best you can.

Sorry I gave you the wrong date set, the 13th was marked at day one on my calendar. They were physically set on the sunday the 12th (I wrote it on the eggs for this exact reason). The reason I am so anal about knowing is these are true ameraucana eggs, from a blue wheaton stock (guy got his flock from a texas breeder who is registered) so I want to make sure the remaining eggs come to fruition and hatch. The incubator is not ranging between 99.2 and 100 so i think it will be okay. Fingers crossed that they will stay on track and hatch! My mixes batch arrive Saturday so they will be going into the nurture right 360 to avoid problems. I've had that incubator running since Tuesday to make sure that we aren't having these issues.

 

[BYC910]

So going by everything posted are these eggs laid out to hatch today ? Wondered how they are progressing .

 

[Brittbee]

So going by everything posted are these eggs laid out to hatch today ? Wondered how they are progressing .

So we have one beautiful bbs (most likely splash) ameraucana, the other seems to have possible died prior to hatch. Living baby is 14 hours old and doing well. I will be doing a eggtopsy today to see what happened. I am afraid of possible shrink wrap or bleedout when hatching for the other egg

They were originally set to hatch out tomorrow, but the high temps for the week definetely sped things up. The little baby was strong and from pip to zip/hatch it only took 5 hours total.

I asked the breeder if he has any chicks that are hatching that are not spoken for, but it's no surprise it's a no. Now off to find the little one another chick to grow with. Wouldn't even mind an Easter egger, already have 4 in my flock!

 

[Brittbee]

Update: as I feared, the second egg quit. It was shrink wrapped, I wish I opened it yesterday because I could have saved it. I feel so bad but now have to find a buddy for the little chick