JANUARY 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[Gentry1350]

Help...this is only my 2nd attempt at hatching. My bator has been up and running for a couple months. I have a remote sensor in there to monitor temps. Temps have been pretty steady, except when the room temps fluctuate wildly (but even then, have remained between 98.5-101.5). It's a still air---I have a fan kit on the way in the mail.

Here's my problem....I threw a dozen shipped eggs in the bator last night (they had been brought to room temp), now my bator is at 95 degrees. Shouldn't it have come back up to normal by now? I hate to adjust the temp and have it swing wildly in the other direction (Hovabator). Do I wait another couple hours or go ahead and adjust now?

Thanks!

Edited to add: in the meantime, I'm raising the room temp just a little as its easier to regulate (it's about 60 degrees in there now)

 

[mattsinger]

I just went through setting some eggs in my LG. After several hours I did need to make a couple VERY small adjustments

 

[Skink]

4 of 5 babies are out! #1 stopped moving. I pulled the egg to open it and see what was up. They passed away after pipping externally.. they were cross beaked, but their egg was very tiny and there wasn't much clearance for breathing, either. Could have been exhaustion or suffocation. Thought that would be the last of it, but #5 (the egg with the really bad saddle aircell) hatched with a bleeding navel and a fair amount of blood left in his membrane!! They are alive. I stopped the bleeding and have them drying in the incubator themselves, moved the 4 others to the brooder. I'm so ready to be able to call this hatch done.. this is the first time I've lost a chick, and I'm terrified I'll lose another.

The 4 wee ones out are awfully cute though! I moved them in to the brooder a little early to give the bleeder privacy to recover without getting kicked to hell and back

 

[blackgoat]

Help...this is only my 2nd attempt at hatching. My bator has been up and running for a couple months. I have a remote sensor in there to monitor temps. Temps have been pretty steady, except when the room temps fluctuate wildly (but even then, have remained between 98.5-101.5). It's a still air---I have a fan kit on the way in the mail.

Here's my problem....I threw a dozen shipped eggs in the bator last night (they had been brought to room temp), now my bator is at 95 degrees. Shouldn't it have come back up to normal by now? I hate to adjust the temp and have it swing wildly in the other direction (Hovabator). Do I wait another couple hours or go ahead and adjust now?

Thanks!

Edited to add: in the meantime, I'm raising the room temp just a little as its easier to regulate (it's about 60 degrees in there now)

you can probably wait a bit longer. Mine always takes a day to get back to temp after adding eggs. I have a still air and it is so frustrating. I kept having crazy flutuations.What I ended up doing was heating small jars of water to about just over 100 degrees and putting those in around the eggs. The temp will raise much faster. I also found that I have to continually turn it down as the eggs develop.
One more thing, for the nyd hatch, the incubator got unplugged 3 times, each time for several hours, (accidently, yeah I managed to accidentally unplug the incubator more than once! ) I used the jars to bring the temp up. I had a great hatch (all things considered).
edited because typing on my phone

 

[ChickenLady2014]

Help...this is only my 2nd attempt at hatching. My bator has been up and running for a couple months. I have a remote sensor in there to monitor temps. Temps have been pretty steady, except when the room temps fluctuate wildly (but even then, have remained between 98.5-101.5). It's a still air---I have a fan kit on the way in the mail.

Here's my problem....I threw a dozen shipped eggs in the bator last night (they had been brought to room temp), now my bator is at 95 degrees. Shouldn't it have come back up to normal by now? I hate to adjust the temp and have it swing wildly in the other direction (Hovabator). Do I wait another couple hours or go ahead and adjust now?

Thanks!

Edited to add: in the meantime, I'm raising the room temp just a little as its easier to regulate (it's about 60 degrees in there now)

Hi I have found with incubating that keeping your room temp around 67 degrees makes it easier for keeping your incubator steady. Hope this helps & best of luck with you hatch

 

[Peep_Show]

In a still air it can take 24 hours for the temps to stabilize back to what they were after setting eggs. IMHO, wait it out, then adjust.

 

[Peep_Show]

Laughing my head off. None of my shipped eggs ever turn out as expected.

In the incubator this morning was this cute little chick hatched out of a BLRW egg.



Why does it have feathered legs?



The egg seller does also raise marans. I have sent an inquiry.

 

[blackgoat]

In a bit of serendipity, the person I ordered the eggs from lives about 1.5 hours away from where we are visiting friends in FL. So, we get to pick them up instead of having them shipped. I'm so glad. So, if any don't hatch, I can't blame the post office XD. They are Modern Game Bantams, and I am so excited! I will be setting them on Tuesday when we get back home. I read that turning them daily while waiting to go in the incubator will increase odds of hatching if they can't go in right away?

 

[blackgoat]

Laughing my head off. None of my shipped eggs ever turn out as expected. In the incubator this morning was this cute little chick hatched out of a BLRW egg. Why does it have feathered legs? The egg seller does also raise marans. I have sent an inquiry.

lol! I think sometimes they can be sneaky. My Olive egger that was supposed to be Marans/Ameraucana looks very much like a Creme Legbar. Cute chick, though.

 

[Gentry1350]

Thanks for all of the helpful replies. I'm doing both.....waiting and upping the room temp. Thinking of putting a jar of water in there as well.

My first "hatch" didn't go so well. Last year, stray rooster covering my 1-yr-olds for several weeks. Several started, but quit early. None hatched. Using shipped eggs this time (from about 4 hrs away). 6 buff orps and 6 Ameracuanas. This was supposed to be a test hatch before ordering a bunch of eggs. Wish me luck!