How long between chicks? *Updated again post #15!

[walkswithdog]

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Usually it's a combination of slightly too low temps during incubation - making weak, late chicks and some form of ventilation or humidity issue. Unfortunately ventilation and humidity are so closely entwined it is truly difficult to separate them the first time there's a problem.

You might want to read the ventilation thread in the hatching stickies.

If you don't have a fan, add one.

Calibrate your thermometers if you did not.

If you did and you still had a long spread out hatch, I'd bump the temp .5 degrees add a fan and try again.

Often that's all it takes. Fans eliminate cool spots, and adjusting temps to suit what you need, not a formula, will get results.

 

[PotterWatch]

A couple pipped last night around 10pm! One hatched sometime this morning but the other one hasn't done anything yet. A couple more have pipped but not made any further progress yet. I'm glad to have gotten at least one more and I know that next time, I will definitely not be using a still-air. I think there was just so much variation in temps within the bator. Next time will be with a fan for sure (just means that I have to buy my own instead of borrowing)!

 

[Chef]

LOL! Yup, I know that exact feeling. I had the still air for a bit and hatches weren't that great so I bought the fan for it and hatches improved dramatically. Now I am going to try to build a cabinet incubator so I can get away from the styrofoam. It seems that my hatching addiction has jumped to the next level

Good to hear you got at least one more baby. Your gonna have chickens EVERYWHERE now

Its so fun!


Chef

 

[Akane]

I'm nearing a 100% hatch in my still air today. I've got one more that's zipping. It has been 24hours since the first one hatched but it's not like my hatch rates are bad with the still air. If I keep the temp in the center on the eggs correct nearly all hatch on day 21 with just the odd early and late one.

 

[PotterWatch]

Well, my temps must have been pretty off in some of the bator because including the one that hatched early this morning, five have hatched and two more are zipping. That makes my total at this point (not including the ones that are zipping now), 8 chicks! Much better than the three I thought I was going to have. One does have a problem with one eye though, it can't open its left eye. It is now almost 48hrs since the first one hatched, this spread out hatch thing has driven me up the wall!

 

[Chook-A-Holic]

My last 4 hatches all hatched within 12hrs. of each other. This was in a wine chiller/incubator conversion.

Marty