january hatch-a-long

[Tatuana]

Babies will be 21 days old tonight. I'm impatient! I'm assuming that means I won't actually start seeing babies until tomorrow at the earliest. I'm really excited to see what I end up with!

 

[muddy75]

Babies will be 21 days old tonight. I'm impatient! I'm assuming that means I won't actually start seeing babies until tomorrow at the earliest. I'm really excited to see what I end up with!

not necessarily....you could still have a hatch by the end of day 21. just occupy yourself with other things and check in on them for progress every few hours....watching the incubator will drive you crazy!

 

[Tatuana]

Babies are 21 days old! I've been carefully avoiding peeping on them too often so I don't go crazy. I let myself look finally. The eggs are against the wall so I can candle without pulling them out/taking off the top. Booger Brain is now Angry Baby in his egg! He keeps flapping his wing up above the sac. I don't know if that means an internal pip or not, but it was cute to see. (The kids LOVED it.)

It's like Christmas in a way. I've no idea what type of eggs they are, and won't know until hatching. So excited! I hope the excitement never wears off for hatching.

 

[mitziworm]

Big surprise today! 7am my daughter calls and she is in labour with baby number 3 so off to the hospital I go. Baby boy born at 9.33! I get home just after 12 and walk past the hatcher and hear peep peep the 1 belgian duccle egg that survived incubator overheating and then a long blackout has hatched, was due 2 days ago and I thought it must have not survived so very excited now for the 2 eggs I put in the hatcher due to hatch today or tomorrow.

 

[Ginmary]

It’s 10pm and still no action from the 3rd and last egg. We candled and think we see slight movement.
In the meantime here’s some pix of the 1st 2 that hatched.
Silkie mom, Peep. And her 2 Serama babies:

 

[mitziworm]

yes this is first time for me with 56 egg. first thing i did was have hubby help me take turners out to check hatching capability. i’m going to have new roll of grippy liner to tape in place over larger grate and edge gaps to protect them. I’m running the janoelle as overflow because 60 eggs. I have 1 tuxedo with a crack. I forgot to make sure that i had nuskin on hand so I painted it with nail polish. The rare mix looks good but still have to label and more closely inspect today. the 56-er has been running for over 12 hrs and it’s holding around 99* when set on 38.5. will calibrate today to run at 37.5. humidity reading is currently 7-10% below actual so hopefully falling too low won’t be an issue.
hoping your hatch goes well. I haven’t had a hatch yet that didn’t have a power glitch. luckily it never really hurt my overall hatch rate...it just delayed or caused a gap between hatches.

I struggle to remove the turners that's why I got a second incubator for hatching after I couldn't get the turner out in the incubator I used with my first 27 shipped eggs. Years ago I had a basic 10egg incubator no turner no humidity gauges and thermometer I could barely see and had way more luck than I've had with the fancy new ones haha

 

[mitziworm]

Babies will be 21 days old tonight. I'm impatient! I'm assuming that means I won't actually start seeing babies until tomorrow at the earliest. I'm really excited to see what I end up with!

Hang in there, my 1 egg from the overheat and blackout hatched today 2 days after due date

 

[Tatuana]

We have a pip! Booger Brain (they'll get proper names when they hatch.) Poked a small hole a few hours ago! He hasn't done anything since, though. Now the wait is on.

 

[Tbird84]

We have a pip! Booger Brain (they'll get proper names when they hatch.) Poked a small hole a few hours ago! He hasn't done anything since, though. Now the wait is on.

Yaaay!

 

[Tbird84]

Mine haven't pipped yet, that I can tell. However, their 21st day isn't until tomorrow. Can't wait for fuzzy butts!