JANUARY HATCH-A-LONG come join in

[Karrie13]

Thank you! That is a great resource. It looks like it could be a couple of things that went wrong. I kept a log of temp and humidity throughout my incubation so I am going to go through all of that and double check my humidity and temp.


Quote:
Here is an excellent read ... Hatchability Problem Analysis
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/aa204

 

[Soaring Chicks]

I have four hatched, 3 BLRW's and 1 CM. I have one more BLRW that is starting to pip.

That leaves 4 more BLRW's to pip yet.

Come on pips

All the new chick are very nice way to go hatchers!

Sorry for all the ones that lost some.

Good Luck for all the ones yet to pip !

Will post pics as soon as they all hatch.

 

[marlin]

Chick update I have 4 BLRW out 2 zipping so far none of my 4 remaining BC Marans are doing anything 2 of the BLRW are a golden orange color 2 are dark brown with golden highlights is the any way to know from the color what they will be?

 

[Cornychick]

thanks pbjmaker!
77horses you just bundle Ivory up and send her to me so she can play with them!

 

[hcammack]

9 chicks out of 10 eggs

5 faverolles bantams and 4 blrw bantams

 

[PandoraTaylor]

Day 19

Moved 6 light Brahma/Barred Rocks & 2 Pure Light Brahma to the hatcher this morning. Hatch date Feb 3rd. Due to the last hatch Failing badly, upped Humidity to 70-74% Temp 101. Hatcher is still air (may have to get a fan for it).


still have 7 mystery eggs in the incubator (hatch Date Feb 16th). Humidity increased to 45-55% and Temp to steady 99-100F.



If this doesnt work I have no clue what to try next.

I need to build a candler (out of 2 projectors as I can't see movement in my dark eggs. but they look full)
& Incubator out of the parts from all these (2 Lg & 2 Galvanized Browers) incubators that aren't doing the job right!

 

[Cornychick]

Well, I am out of this hatch now. I just had a feeling that something was wrong being this late and nothing pipping, so I grabbed one of the silkie eggs and saw no movement. I pipped it and it was dead. All of the chicks had fully formed and died some today, some yesterday. None of them had even pipped into the aircell. I don't get it. I did not do a dry hatch, but temps and humidity were pretty steady the whole period at recommeded levels.
It gets better. Feeling frustrated, I decide to look at my eggs that are due tommorow and all were dead also except two. Same as the others. The two that were still alive, I made the decision to try to help them. So I opened the aircell and cleared thier little heads and put them back in the bator.

 

[chicken stalker]

Well I'm done. The one I piped didn't make it, I really didn't expect it to. So I have 17 beautiful chicks (13 wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucanas + 4 projects). I have 2 project eggs left in the bator as an experiment on staggered hatching and they are due next Sunday. They got pushed around a lot during the big hatch but maybe they'll hatch. Then it will be time to clean the bator and put in whites ameraucanas and marans

for a feburary hatch.

 

[chickenmeadow]

It's January 31st with only a few hours left in the month. I've enjoyed the posts here, learned some things & shared in the joys & sorrows. With incubation there are always things to rejoice in , learn from & look forward to for the next hatch. Chickens are just wonderful animals; we are the lucky ones to have discovered that.

Congratulations to all of the chickies that hatched & their proud owners in January 2010!

Best wishes to all, see you on the 'FEBRUARY HATCH-A-LONG come join in', lots of new people there & those we saw here. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3548324#p3548324

 

[nhnanna]

I guess I am going to have atleast one hatch before the end of January. It pipped this morning but hasn't done anything all day. I kept checking on it to make sure it was ok but it finally started zipping about 15 minutes ago. It is a frizzlexsilkie. I guess I will name it January.
Congrats on all the new January chickies.
Hopefully I will have some to start February with. There are 2 BO, 1 silkie and one BrahmaxGLW due tomorrow.