Incubators Anonymous

[gander007]

Just started my incubator up last week to get everything running correctly then put 30 egg's in yesterday and now hopping for the best ....




Hopping for some more feather heads like this .....

 

[reindeermama]

Hoping someone can help me on here. I am extremely new to incubating. Only have four eggs as this is all they had of Olandsk Dwarfs.
I candled them today.(Day 14) They all have development and movement inside. Is this a good sign? Does this mean I might have a good hatch. I was just hoping that I might get one of the whole batch. Or is it still pretty iffy? As far as I can tell the air cells look good. (Don't really know what I am looking for there) I candled today because I was trying to position well for pipping the shell. Do Dwarfs and Bantams hatch early? This is my first try. Bought eggs and then went out and bought an incubator. It took the eggs 2 days to reach me in the mail. I had that incubator waiting. I did let them settle first. Hopefully, I did it right.

 

[Faraday40]

Hoping someone can help me on here. I am extremely new to incubating. Only have four eggs as this is all they had of Olandsk Dwarfs.
I candled them today.(Day 14) They all have development and movement inside. Is this a good sign? Does this mean I might have a good hatch. I was just hoping that I might get one of the whole batch. Or is it still pretty iffy? As far as I can tell the air cells look good. (Don't really know what I am looking for there) I candled today because I was trying to position well for pipping the shell. Do Dwarfs and Bantams hatch early? This is my first try. Bought eggs and then went out and bought an incubator. It took the eggs 2 days to reach me in the mail. I had that incubator waiting. I did let them settle first. Hopefully, I did it right.

Embryo Movement is always a good sign. The air cell should be firmly in place - not wobbliy. I continue turning the eggs until day 18. That's when I place the eggs on their sides & increase the humidity. The lowest point of the air cell (left side in the pic below) is the side I place upwards. Of course the eggs may roll & get kicked around as the chicks hatch. I just do my best to keep the incubator closed. Others have great success keeping the eggs upright.

The eggs should hatch about at the same time. Sometime bantams may come early, but hatches usually have a burst of activity where most hatch within 24 hrs. It may happen on Day 19 or as late as day 24. A slight change in temp can make all the diff. I've had surprises when embryos looked good on day 18 but pipped upside down & drowned or perhaps a little too small but hatched out fine. You never know until hatch day.

Best of luck. I'm sure you'll be glued to the window very soon.

 

[Faraday40]

Sorry. Image did not show. Maybe this will work.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/content/type/61/id/6725025/width/350/height/700/flags/LL

 

[reindeermama]

Thanks, I really appreciate the information. Now I know what to look for regarding the air cells. Hopefully they will be okay. I am praying for at least one to be okay, but two would be awesome. And if the worse happens, maybe I'll have learned something and will do better the next time. I am going to candle on day 18 and try to make sure they are positioned as you mentioned. First I bought chicks and did well. Then came another batch. Then my Husband fell in love with the dwarfs, but couldn't find any to buy, so therefore the eggs. Boy, do I have a problem with chicken math.I was only suppose to have six, but now I have 18, plus hopefully these if they hatch. My family is laughing, I was looking at buying more eggs. They said "You might want to finish this one first" Thanks again. I will let everyone know if I have any luck. I am glued to watching the chickens in the coop, the ones in the brooder, and now in the incubator. So much more interesting than TV.

 

[Faraday40]

Yes. I passed it along to my kids. Now my DD is a hatch-a-holic too!

 

[reindeermama]

Well, I think your DD is cute. I think it is awesome she is inheriting your hatch fever.

 

[ronott1]

I have not posted here since 2013. My new tablet thinks I post here though so how are all of you doing?

 

[sssharon]

This is the only chick that I got out of my last hatch,I don't know what happened but anyway that's the way it is. This is where she decided that she would like to roost. She's been jumping in and out of her tote box and I let her because I feel sorry for her that she's probably bored. She's only 2 weeks old. This screwdriver is right above her tote and that's where her heat lamp was hanging from. We were looking for her on the floor and there she was up on the screwdriver, pretty funny.I saw you were on Ron so I thought I would give you the pleasure of this. Thought you might get a kick out of it.

 

[ronott1]

This is the only chick that I got out of my last hatch,I don't know what happened but anyway that's the way it is. This is where she decided that she would like to roost. She's been jumping in and out of her tote box and I let her because I feel sorry for her that she's probably bored. She's only 2 weeks old. This screwdriver is right above her tote and that's where her heat lamp was hanging from. We were looking for her on the floor and there she was up on the screwdriver, pretty funny.I saw you were on Ron so I thought I would give you the pleasure of this. Thought you might get a kick out of it.

Oh My!

She looks a bit like a Partridge rock. What is she?

I love little fliers for sure!