How many diffrent hatch dates is to many ?? opinions please

[gabrielle1976]

IF I cant get my home made one set up to fit enough eggs is there gonna be any chance that that are five days behind will survive and hatch later .
What are the resones that people use seprate hatchers and incubators , is it jsut the extra humidity for like 3 days? can that do that much damage when some people incubate with higher humidity anyways? If its the turning , will stoping turning 3 days early realy kill off or deform the chicks.
If its something else what is that something?
I know ahveing eggs from one date or hatching in a hatcher when you have staggerd hatches is what you need to do but there is a chance if I cant figure soemthing out for a hatcher that the eggs will be ok at lest some of them?

 

[Katy]

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I don't like to do staggered hatches because then what's right for one set of eggs is wrong for the other. Also...and correct me if I'm wrong..this is your first hatch..correct? If you have any kind of luck with the first set, you are not going to believe how messy and smelly the incubator is going to be after they're done hatching. Great breeding ground for bacteria to grow and unless you take the other eggs out and clean it well it can affect the later hatching eggs. I guess I've just never thought it was worth the risk to try and do a staggered hatch in one incubator.

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

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I have not had much success with staggered clutches and have sworn off the idea of incubating more than one group at a time until I can buy/build a separate hatcher.

I highly recommend you get yourself a bottle of wine and commit two or three hours to reading this thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=113681

Best of luck!

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

We set eggs every Tuesday evening, every week. But we also have 2 bators and a hatcher.

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Also, this one time, at band camp...

I got the bright idea to put the hatchers inside a plastic shoebox inside the 'bator and maintain a higher humidity within that shoebox.

Result: worst hatch ever.

 

[barnwife]

Hi, My name is barnwife, and I am a chick-a-holic.

I go to my feed and seed at least twice a week to check what chicks they have in...o yeah, and buy feed.

I buy a few chicks/ducks/poults/goslings nearly every week.

Therefore, I have an extensive series of "grow up" pens/cages/brooders.

And the folks at Ideal know my name and voice, memorized my email/paypal, and have given invites to family gatherings.


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If this sounds like you, then perhaps you won't have as much of a problem as some folks would.

If you have one bator simply for hatching (and however many more for incubating) and move eggs to the hatcher three days before they are due, you should have less of a problem as well.

It just requires a little more set-up and prep work, maybe a little more time. It is MUCH harder to do "all in, all out" quarantines and biosecurity this way, also.

BUT, you constantly have chicks, are a working homeschooling tool, and always have fuzzy cutesey peeping fluffballs twittering and scratching everywhere.

If this does not bother you...or, better yet...if this thrills you, you're set for life.

If this sounds like a nightmare, unplug your pc until this website is blocked permanently via password you don't know on a nanny program.

And don't ever use the pc at the library

I hope this helps!

 

[gabrielle1976]

yup its my first hatch , it was sapose to be my test run for the hatching project we will be doing in my sons classroom in april. Once eggs started comeing it gota bit out of hand.

Bealeve me I do not want to hatch a staggerd hatch in one incubator and I will do anything in my power to make shure I can get another bator befor it will be a problem. And you better bealve I wont make this mistake again

What Im asking for is opions on damage control , ideas , and maybe a bit of sapport.

I like many others am just learning and makeing mistakes as I go. And have many questions.

Thank you all for youre responses.

 

[BawGock]

Maybe you'll be able to accommodate more eggs in your homemade bator if you hatch them in egg cartons.
Carolyn

 

[gabrielle1976]

Thats a good idea.
I was thinking I could just go buy another BIGGER stryapome cooler and jsut take everything out of the littleone and put it in the new one, I am assumeing that would work but I dont know.

I know that it will fit my lone egg that hatches on about the 26th . Poor guy I might just have to buy another chick at the feed store if that egg hatches.
Anyone heard of a silver penciled banty or a rose comb banty ?

APX hatch dates so far are ... 26th...30th....4th ..

Any ideas on if I should wait for my shipped eggs next week to put the ones I got today that are already 4-8 days old in .

We serioulsy need a HA meeting <hatchers anonymous>

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

The issue that you'll run into has to do with the differing humidity requirements of the 0-18 day eggs versus the 19-21 day eggs.

Also, if you hatch just one peep...whoa! We did that recently...the poor li'l thing just screamed and screamed for like three days straight! The only thing that would calm it down is if my girlfriend held it. Then, it'd go right to sleep in her hands.