Jan./Feb. 2014 hatch a long

[Farmer Viola]

2nd one is out.


Look like I might have a light and dark Brahma.

yeah! congrats!!

the little rings holding up your eggs from the other photo are a really smart idea!

 

[JDchicks]

yeah! congrats!!

the little rings holding up your eggs from the other photo are a really smart idea!

Yep, hubby cut me some pvc pipe to 3/4 inch. I have several, and I can wash and reuse. No knocking other eggs around and low enough that they can't climb and reach the heating coil.

 

[Cynthia12]

No way this just happened! I was in the room leaning down by the chicks looking at them, and was talking out loud to my DH as he was heading off to bed. All of a sudden, I hear this...uurrr, a urrr... What?
I had to look up the earliest crow. Sure enough, there was one at 4 days old. I really think this little chick was surprised at the sound of my voice as loud as it was. I have been talking softly all the times before, but this time I was talking out the door to my hubby. It must have scared the little one. I had heard of this happening way early, but my goodness...a day? It was stretched up on it's feet, neck stretched out...couldn't believe it. Where's the video camera when you need it! I've never heard anything like that come from a chick before. lol..too funny.

 

[Cynthia12]

2nd one is out.


Look like I might have a light and dark Brahma.

 

[dolfi]

I have a diff hatch going on day 18/16 and candled some of my 18 look to be behind- I combined them with my day 16 and the advanced day 18 in a separate incubator.

Im sorry but I see this all over byc 18/16 or so what does it mean.

 

[SilkieSensation]

 
Well, so much for an early hatch.  I swear I have the slowest hatchers.

Me to JD.
Set 14 AM'S, 2 BO's and 3 Orps today...
Silly me, I was going to add more and realized  THE BATOR IS FULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
I need help.....you know, the kind you get while laying on the Dr.s couch

You need to learn how to play egg tetris! There's always room for more eggs...lol

So exciting hearing about all your hatches! Mine are only on day 10...it seems like it's been much longer than that! I guess I'll look at it as being halfway done instead of "only" ten days in! So it seems I've heard some of you mentioning staggering hatches, like you added more eggs to the bator as you went along. Did I read that right? How does lockdown work? Do you just not turn the younger eggs for a couple days? How about the increased humidity?

Because I only have one laying hen due to a coyote, I'm trying to hatch as many as I can. I'd like to add more eggs every 10 days or so but I only have one incubator. Ideas?

To do staggered hatch in a single bator here are a few suggestions. Use different colors to mark each batch of eggs so they are easy to locate at a glance. Try to keep groups together as much as possible. Keep humidity as low as you can until you have to raise it for lockdown on each batch. Only raise humidity as long as you have to for each hatch & lower it as soon as the last chick from each batch is out. Set new eggs 7-10 days apart to avoid a continuous lockdown humidity.

No way this just happened!   I was in the room leaning down by the chicks looking at them, and was talking out loud to my DH as he was heading off to bed.  All of a sudden, I hear this...uurrr, a urrr...   What?  
   I had to look up the earliest crow.   Sure enough, there was one at 4 days old.   I really think this little chick was surprised at the sound of my voice as loud as it was. I have been talking softly all the times before, but this time I was talking out the door to my hubby.   It must have scared the little one.   I had heard of this happening way early, but my goodness...a day?   It was stretched up on it's feet, neck stretched out...couldn't believe it.  Where's the video camera when you need it!   I've never heard anything like that come from a chick before.  lol..too funny.  

I had a couple little cochin bantam roos like that. Very vocal right from the start.


Quotes won't let me post this right, but for the question below, this looks to refer to the day count of eggs in a stsggered hatch. They have them set 2 days apart & some are on day 18 of incubation, some are on day 16.
Other references could be as follows:
4/6 development would mean they had 4 eggs develop out of 6 set.
20/45 hatch would mean 20 eggs hatched from 45 originally set.

I have a diff hatch going on day 18/16 and candled some of my 18 look to be behind- I combined them with my day 16 and the advanced day 18 in a separate incubator.

Im sorry but I see this all over byc 18/16 or so what does it mean.

 

[dfreas]

I have an early bird....1st is out.



And 2nd is zipping

These rings are really great. I've had two now that got half way through zipping and the liquid from the shell hit that soft shelf liner that you and I both seem to be using and very quickly turned into glue. I've had to reach in and forcefully pull them up off of it to keep them from getting stuck in the shell like that. (In fact I think that's part of the reason I lost the one I did.) I was thinking I would have to stop using the shelf liner, but these rings could also solve the problem by keeping the zip from hitting the shelf liner.

If anyone else is using the same sort of liner in the above pic make sure you watch closely during zip! It has only happened to me twice out of 8 eggs that have zipped so far, but when it happens it glues the egg right where it is and the chick can't make any more progress!

 

[Heidisgran]

My babies..look like EE's to me.





The one above is my favorite. Not a very good picture, she started to blink with her first eye lid. She has a sweet face though.

you've got some great coloring....hope they feather similar...beautiful!!!

 

[Heidisgran]

i did that it was good to have them both hatch!!

a frizzled baby!! I LOVE them

 

[Heidisgran]

So exciting hearing about all your hatches! Mine are only on day 10...it seems like it's been much longer than that! I guess I'll look at it as being halfway done instead of "only" ten days in! So it seems I've heard some of you mentioning staggering hatches, like you added more eggs to the bator as you went along. Did I read that right? How does lockdown work? Do you just not turn the younger eggs for a couple days? How about the increased humidity?

Because I only have one laying hen due to a coyote, I'm trying to hatch as many as I can. I'd like to add more eggs every 10 days or so but I only have one incubator. Ideas?

I use a separate incubator for lockdown