INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[Saris]

Today is the day.....I am so nervous. Setting up the bator now, photos to come.....

Woot woot!

 

[Cynthia12]

Thanks draye!

 

[nuklee0]

So sorry to hear about your loss, @nuklee0
 . I hope you get some of your chicks. I'm really glad you asked the question, actually, because I'm doing the same thing. I have three silkie eggs at day 9 and had to throw NINE out because of infertility. :| Other half went and bought some cemani eggs. I can't leave them sitting there till this hatch is over, so I'm going to have to stagger too. As these hatch, the cemani's should be at day 11/12 so I'm going to have be really careful with air sacs. :|

Thanks @Sally Sunshine
 for the advice!

Thanks Greenrunner... I've been reading as much as I can about staggered hatches and some say they don't change anything and the chicks still hatch while some others have increased humidity for their first hatch and it didn't seem to affect the 2nd hatch. Have you decided which route u might take?

 

[Cynthia12]

Will share this on here too. This chick had a very small air sack. It was even zipping .. above..where I had drawn the line, not much room..I would say that the zip would have been the size of a quarter when done. No way that little chick could have kicked out of there, unless, the shell really broke up. I just went ahead and helped it out. No blood, no yolk, it was ready! Here is a photo of what the head looked like because it was so squashed in there..then photos of it later once the head reshaped.



Note the bulge on that poor little head..back of head/neck area. Really tight in there.


Doing well now!




Wish I had thought to take a photo of the shell and how small the zip area was, but I was interested in getting him out! Looking like a boy, yep.

Edit to say, I had a few in there with small air sacs, watching them, but a couple have pipped, looking so far. I just kept the humidity the same since so many were fine for lock down.

 

[GreenRunner]

@nuklee0 I think I'm going to follow Sally's advice, mark the air sacs and follow carefully and then boost humidity whilst hatching and then bring it back down if the air sacs on the cemani's are too small. Lets both keep our fingers and toes crossed!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hey all, joining in here. I'm not currently incubating anything, but I always enjoy learning more about incubation.

Today is the day.....I am so nervous. Setting up the bator now, photos to come.....

 

[BG2heum]

New Q; put eggs in a box with heat/light 30-40% hmid.temp range 80-100°.(a week ) THEN got LG incubator. It stabilized at 99.5°, but humid was 80%. Not very long. How much Flux can they take at this age? Can i drown at 3 days gest? At what day to they HAVE to be stable? Why can't you open a crack at lock down? Or remove chicks to warming box? If my hen has been on and off the 4 -3 day old others
(she has one bb chick)should I try to incubate those? She'd rather play with bb than set

 

[Bejammie]

Ok eggs in the bator...now im realizing how many dumb questions I have....help.....


Ok so I have an auto turner in my hovabator with a fan, do I need to turn the eggs ever at all?

How do you decrease humidity in a bator? I live in south carolina, and its always humid...

And if I have chicks hatch before the others, but the others are in lock down, what do you do??? Not staggered hatch, just a day or three before and after each other kind of deal?

28 eggs in the bator.....im aiming for 20 hatched but I dont know how many are even fertile so ill be happy if one hatches lol

 

[Rod-T]

Ok eggs in the bator...now im realizing how many dumb questions I have....help.....


Ok so I have an auto turner in my hovabator with a fan, do I need to turn the eggs ever at all?

How do you decrease humidity in a bator? I live in south carolina, and its always humid...

And if I have chicks hatch before the others, but the others are in lock down, what do you do??? Not staggered hatch, just a day or three before and after each other kind of deal?

28 eggs in the bator.....im aiming for 20 hatched but I dont know how many are even fertile so ill be happy if one hatches lol

The auto turner will turn the eggs..make sure it's working
I'm not sure about your climate for humidity. . But after a day or 2 in incubator the dry heat it produces should lower the humidity more then your room humidity. .don't add water till you need it.
Try to avoid staggered hatches .specialy just a day or 2.

 

[kguinness76]

@nuklee0
 I think I'm going to follow Sally's advice, mark the air sacs and follow carefully and then boost humidity whilst hatching and then bring it back down if the air sacs on the cemani's are too small. Lets both keep our fingers and toes crossed!!

Next hatch I do, I am going to mark air sacs, and mark where the chick is faced to pip. I think it will cut down on the unknown.