Jan. 21st hatch day! I have chicks! Pics Added pg 12!

[gvntofly05]

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I put some eggs in on the first also, and I'm just wanting to check my math... wouldn't it mean that tomorrow morning is the 18th day? I just don't want to do my lockdown a day late! This is my first time hatching

This is what I am counting by:
Count the days of incubation from the first day the eggs are placed in the incubator. If placed in the a.m. that day would be Day 1; if placed in the p.m. that day would be Day 0, the next day would be Day 1.

Thanks to advice from Wynette I have decided to place my eggs in a cut down carton. Lock Down has started!!!!!

 

[latherunner]

Well I'm really anxious, as you probably understand haha... I put the eggs in at 11:00 AM on the first... so is it going to hurt anything if I lockdown today at 11:00 AM? I candled again last night and both of my eggs are still alive!

 

[gvntofly05]

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I don't think it will hurt anything at all. From what I have read online and in books, you really don't have to turn the eggs past day 16. Egg turning is most important the first 2 weeks.

I'm going crazy right now. I keep checking temp and humidity. I can only imagine what I'm going to be like when I see the first pip!

 

[latherunner]

Ok! Lockdown it is!

I have a new Hova Bator 1588 with a turner... and it's been between 89.1 and 99.7 the whole time, usually 99.3-99.5 and the humidity has been between 29-36% the whole time, mostly around 33% so I'm real impressed with this incubator! Is it Friday yet?

 

[gvntofly05]

I can't wait to see my babies! They are saving me from having to take a 5 hr trip to Evansville on Feb 6th! My niece is having her 1st B-day then. I really hate to miss it but I really hate long car rides too! My hubby is going down there with our 4yr old and his mom on that Sat and returning the next day. I'll be staying home with my 10 month old and my new baby chicks! (Hubby is the one that doesn't trust leaving the brooder lamp on all night with no one home).

 

[Madcap621]

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Kinda off topic but I gotta ask

Jenny, what kind of chick with the little santa beard IS that in your avitar??

Adorable! Looks like it has the mumps!

Now, my report. I will be doing my 14 day candleing today and lockdown is Friday. The first 11 days was a disaster of temp spikes and lows, and humidity above 70%

I moved my bator to a different room, plugged into a new surge protector, discovered that my thermometer [brand new] was 3* high! so, instead of spikes to 105.4 maybe they were just 102.4

It's high/low reads 98.3 -105.4 which means I may have had lows of 95*!

Since the change, my temp has been steady at 99 - 100 [it doesn't show tenths] and humidity is holding in the mid 30s. I may have to wait until tonight to candle, as there is a big window in this room and I'm not sure I can get it dark enough.

that I will get something out of this hatch! Hope my "corrective measures" didn't come too late

 

[gvntofly05]

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Just keep in mind that chicks can handle the low temps better than the high spikes. Your eggs are probably fine, keep in mind also that if your temps were lower it may take an extra day or two for your eggs to hatch.

 

[LaSombra]

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Kinda off topic but I gotta ask

Jenny, what kind of chick with the little santa beard IS that in your avitar??

Adorable! Looks like it has the mumps!

That is my little Christmas chick, Holly

She was actually hatched the Monday after Christmas... she was a little late. Anyway, Mom is an EE and I think the dad is my EE roo also, thus the muffs

If not him, then my buff wyandotte roo, but I think it's the EE roo... so that makes her an EE, right?

 

[1littlefarmer]

I locked mine down tonight! Tossed 3 clear ones but I've got six that look good.

Here we go!

 

[quenston]

Have you had any hatch yet? I set 35 on the same day that you did and I have 11 hatched now but more are pipping and zipping!!!