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

[kwhites634]

My pens are half under roof, so as long as they had shade, they were fine.
I found the eggs much harder to hatch. I usually hatch 90% or better, but my first 2 BCM hatches were 50%, and they were my own eggs. I finally got up to 75 and 80% by running dry for the first 18 days. Dry for me was 28-30% humidity with no water in the channels

Shade's not a problem here; coop & run are under a big Maple, & the run's tarped. That 50% hatch rate bothers me, though

Thanks

 

[firedragon1982]

More pips! We have more pips!

So of the 10 eggs in lockdown we have 1 currently zipping, and 5 others pipped! Sitting on my hands... sitting on my hands... luckily I'm tired today so once i drop the kid off at school I'll just go lay back down LOL.

 

[scflock]

Shade's not a problem here; coop & run are under a big Maple, & the run's tarped. That 50% hatch rate bothers me, though

Thanks

It's been aggravating. Those could be big sellers, but I hate tying my incubator up for that long with a 50% hatch rate. Like I said, though, my last two were 75 and 80%. I'm also wondering if it's not a flock issue. I bought them before I learned enough, and they are bred badly. There are a bunch of threads on BYC about how tough BCM are to hatch, so I feel like 75% or better is an achievement

 

[lindalouly]

More pips! We have more pips! e

So of the 10 eggs in lockdown we have 1 currently zipping, and 5 others pipped! Sitting on my hands... sitting on my hands... luckily I'm tired today so once i drop the kid off at school I'll just go lay back down LOL.

Can't wait for baby pictures!!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Saris]

More pips! We have more pips! e

So of the 10 eggs in lockdown we have 1 currently zipping, and 5 others pipped! Sitting on my hands... sitting on my hands... luckily I'm tired today so once i drop the kid off at school I'll just go lay back down LOL.

Yeah right, you'll be hovering over that bator with a huge cup of coffee! Hahaha

 

[Cynthia12]

It's gonna be the box ones.where they can get in but now out.

 

[Cynthia12]

I think I killed her...

How is that baby? Didn't make it? If it is what the photos looked like in the post that Saris shared, that isn't a hernia. That was unabsorbed yolk. Sometimes you can really paste it with neo and it will absorb more, but usually, they don't make it with that much out. Don't blame yourself if it didn't make it. Not all hatched little ones make it, even when things look perfect at first. Had that happen a couple of hatches ago. Baby was running around with all of the others, then noticed that it was leaking yolk. What? Never, ever had that happen before, when it hatched with all of the yolk absorbed. I worked with it, kept it separate from the others, nothing worked. I lost it. The one I wanted of course. Let us know how you are.

 

[Cynthia12]

Sally, have to take off. Shopping. I will be back on here as soon as I get on to see how you are doing. What the doc had to say. Take care honey.

 

[napdognewfie]

There are now 5 black chicks and 3 lighter colored chicks. The last 2 eggs are pipped.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Help,she isn't on her. Eggs again.