IA (incubators anonymous) September Hatches?

[Ghosty]

I found some BCM chicks from Greenfire's line about two hours away for 7$ a chick this week. They had an old GQF brooder for sale too. I couldn't find the time to make the drive before they sold out. Maybe next year.

 

[Jules929]

I found some BCM chicks from Greenfire's line about two hours away for 7$ a chick this week. They had an old GQF brooder for sale too. I couldn't find the time to make the drive before they sold out. Maybe next year.

Sorry you missed out!
I picked up supplies today to make some brooders since my coop isn't built yet. I have three different age groups right now, and I need to get them out of the spare bedroom, lol. I figure I can use the brooders that I build tomorrow for broody cages or hospital/quarantine cages later on.

 

[KikiLeigh02]

I'm really not sure, the only thing I can tell on them is if they're clear.

Oh, no! I hope you have more hatch! How many eggs are still in the running?

 

[Jules929]

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Very nice!

 

[ChickensAndYoga]

Going into the start of day 14 on my two eggs that are a project. Then shortly after those I have the two stagger larger clutches. Those are on days 7 and 3. My temps have been amazing this whole time (knock on wood) and I’ve taken even more precautions after last fiasco and now wipe my candler with an alcohol prep pad before I use it. Let it air dry. Repeat after and store it in in a ziplock. Also limiting my candling hugely so every is candled at the same time and only 3x total. Finished building my separate still air Hatcher. Sprayed it down with bleach solution and let it air dry. It’s all set up and running it til Friday when I lock down the first two to make sure all is stable. I had 3 eggs but one quit. But, as I’ve said some of my eggs are from a new breeding rooster and he’s a bantam amongst standards so it took him some time. As of breakfast yesterday and today he’s figured out the larger ladies because all eggs were fertilized

 

[Jules929]

Going into the start of day 14 on my two eggs that are a project. Then shortly after those I have the two stagger larger clutches. Those are on days 7 and 3. My temps have been amazing this whole time (knock on wood) and I’ve taken even more precautions after last fiasco and now wipe my candler with an alcohol prep pad before I use it. Let it air dry. Repeat after and store it in in a ziplock. Also limiting my candling hugely so every is candled at the same time and only 3x total. Finished building my separate still air Hatcher. Sprayed it down with bleach solution and let it air dry. It’s all set up and running it til Friday when I lock down the first two to make sure all is stable. I had 3 eggs but one quit. But, as I’ve said some of my eggs are from a new breeding rooster and he’s a bantam amongst standards so it took him some time. As of breakfast yesterday and today he’s figured out the larger ladies because all eggs were fertilized

Glad to hear all the good news and hoping you have stellar hatch rates!
I am apparently at least temporarily addicted to incubating, lol. I ordered more eggs last night!

Question: my incubator holds 42 eggs. When I set a smaller batch, say 12-16 eggs, is placement in the incubator a factor? There is a fan in the incubator. I am thinking that centering the eggs in the middle, near the heat and humidity sensors, makes sense. And when I candle, placing the exterior ones in the center and moving the ones that were in the center to the outer edge of the grouping. Am I over-thinking?? (I have been accused of that before, so feel free to be honest!)

 

[Jules929]

Forgot to mention, my neighbor has raised and sold many chicken. Her opinion of my hatchlings are females, yay! So, unless one of my TSC ~5 1/2 week old pullet "Cuckoo Marans" (yellow legs = Barred Rocks?) turns out to be an oops, no cockerels out of 13 chicks.

 

[Shamo Hybrid]

I think it's always best to move eggs around, at least to me it makes sense..... there are always cold spots in every incubator it seems. But then again a minor temp change from one end of the spectrum to the other is usually minimal, not enough of a difference from one egg surviving and one dying. With that said, I just had a temp drop in the middle of the night down to 91 degrees....... should I be worried?

 

[Jules929]

I think it's always best to move eggs around, at least to me it makes sense..... there are always cold spots in every incubator it seems. But then again a minor temp change from one end of the spectrum to the other is usually minimal, not enough of a difference from one egg surviving and one dying. With that said, I just had a temp drop in the middle of the night down to 91 degrees....... should I be worried?

Thanks! As to your temp drop, I have limited experience, and haven't had great success with my new incubator and shipped eggs. What I have read here, though, is that a drop in temp isn't as critical as the spikes in temp that you and I have both experienced. I had 6 out of 14 make it to lockdown, with only 2 hatch. But they are doing well!

 

[9SpiceyChickens]

I heard Traders Joe as fertile eggs. Anyone used them before?