Incubation Effort #28 Hatched

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Day 21 5:45 pm 2 Delaware and 3 Welsummers have hatched. Two pipping and still more time to wait. Leaving them go through the weekend.

 

[Chickapooh23]

Awesome thread. Good luck on the rest of your hatch.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Day 22 6:48 am - Another Delaware has opened the top (zipped) and almost out. Two Welsummers and 1 Delaware have nice sized pips

In the Hatcher
7 Welsummers - 3 Hatched, 2 Big PIP, 1 Little PIP
5 Delawares - 3 Hatched, 1 Big PIP

I am very pleased! The bator and hatcher are both homemade based on the MissPrissy model.

Linds Incubator Linds Hatcher

 

[speckledhen]

Good hatch, Ed. Good luck on the one you just started, too.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

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My Incubator is doing fantastic. I made a slight adjustment after the test hatch in that I remounted the fan so it was blowing on an angle out over the light to hopefully circulate air better. I actually have 31 eggs in there right now. I have three thermostats and The farthest corner is 99 - 100 degrees and the closest to the heat source is 99 - 101. The other thing that I did (I think gopherboy did it) was put two tall jars of water in the bator to help stabilize the temps when it is opened. Working great.

Hatch #2 - 6 Buff Orpington eggs from Jodi and Charlie. Jodi also sent me 4 Aracauna eggs. They are 6 days ahead of yours.

Hatch#3 - Your eggs,. They went in the bator last night and amazingly, the temp only dropped to 97, even with adding 21 eggs.

I will post a different thread on each Hatch to track their progress.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

Day 22 4:30 pm 8 have hatched and 0 pipping. Leaving the 4 unhatched in the Hatcher for at least another day or so. 4 of the Hatched chicks have been moved to the brooder.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

This Hatch is done. I candled the 4 remaining eggs today and there was no movement in fact, they look like they had stopped before going in the Hatcher. Total Hatched 5 Welsummers and 3 Delaware.

9 Welsummer Eggs
5 Hatched
2 Did not Hatch
1 Gave up on Day #12
1 Gave up prior to Day #18

9 Delaware Eggs
3 Hatched (1 seems to have an issue with his feet)
2 Did not Hatch
1 Dropped on Day #2 (My Fault)
3 Gave up along the way prior to Day #18

Given that these eggs were layed during 3 Days and the Highs were 32 and this is my first Real Hatch, I am very pleased. I paid for 12 eggs and ended up with 8 Chicks. I am ok with that.

On to Hatch #2 (Due to Hatch MArch 7, 2009) and #3 (Due to Hatch March 13). I will post seperate threads for these.