They weren't supposed to hatch until Sunday or Monday!
January 2020 Hatch along
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ShannonsChimkens
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Look at all the fluffy hats! 
ShannonsChimkens
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A little premature there FortCluck. Lol, impatient little buggers.
There is one breed out of all mine that have hatched early. Ayam Cemani is always a day or two early.
There is one breed out of all mine that have hatched early. Ayam Cemani is always a day or two early.
@FortCluck are you a hatching assister if needed?
Yeah I can help if needed. Everything looks good so far though. I helped a lot my first hatch.
This one didn't hatch even 3 days after the hatch date. I opened the egg and it was barely alive, but I just sold it and it was perfectly healthy when it left here!
Usually they come out 24 hours after the external pip, but I think her eggs they come out that day. This is the 2nd time I hatch her eggs.
Cutie!!!
I only asked because I would just make a cage over the eggs that aren’t due so you can still get to the hatching ones. I could be wrong.... but I think I’ve seen @aart post a cage before made out of hardware cloth and zip ties? If she did, I’d bet money she has it bookmarked to share....
I just sent my husband to the store on his lunch break... I got these to out the eggs in that aren't due to hatch.Cutie!!!
I only asked because I would just make a cage over the eggs that aren’t due so you can still get to the hatching ones. I could be wrong.... but I think I’ve seen @aart post a cage before made out of hardware cloth and zip ties? If she did, I’d bet money she has it bookmarked to share....
I have made dividers for 2 different bators, and an HC 'cage' for aggressive chicks in the brooder.I only asked because I would just make a cage over the eggs that aren’t due so you can still get to the hatching ones. I could be wrong.... but I think I’ve seen @aart post a cage before made out of hardware cloth and zip ties? If she did, I’d bet money she has it bookmarked to share....
Those should work to cover eggs that are due later(staggered hatch, I presume?) from the hatching chicks.
I receive free eggs from someone that I gave my roosters to that were human aggressive and in return he gave me three dozen eggs.
A lot of his eggs didn't make it, only about half of them did So whenever I would pull out some of his I would add a couple of mine. My eggs are always ready to go into the incubator and they are usually 90% for a hatch rate.
He wasn't very experienced in how to handle fertilized eggs and I tried to explain it to him as best as I could, but I don't think they were handled properly or the breeding stock isn't great. I got 36 eggs and I think I only have about 15 left in the incubator. There was also a language barrier between us because he is from a different country So I'm sure some of what I said wasn't understood completely.
Either way he is going to take any males that I don't want
