July 2015 Hatch A Long HAL

[WashingtonWino]

all the best everyone.. @WashingtonWino beautiful eggs!!!!!

Thanks! Candled 42 eggs and at least 36 of them are developing, shipped eggs that arrived during a heat wave. Not bad!

Question for you hatchers, how do you keep chicks separate during hatching? I've got a few mixes in there that I'm not confident I'll be able to identify. What would you do?

 

[HiyokoInNippon]

Day 4, only three eggs have something that might be development? These poor eggs... I am trying to rotate which ones are observed each day so that no one egg gets too much time outside of the incubator ^^;;

 

[Loc20chick]

Since I'm testing my flock fertility, I'm happy to say out of the 4 eggs I set on 21st 3 are developing great and one is clear. Unfortunately I dropped one of the fertile ones while candling and it cracked and oozed some blood, but at least I have 2 developing hope they hatch. And also hope the ones I added on 28th will also develop well, will be candling the delawares n my backyard eggs on Saturday or Sunday.

 

[Loc20chick]

Thanks! Candled 42 eggs and at least 36 of them are developing, shipped eggs that arrived during a heat wave. Not bad!

Question for you hatchers, how do you keep chicks separate during hatching? I've got a few mixes in there that I'm not confident I'll be able to identify. What would you do?

Last 4 chicks I hatched were 2 Americauna a Delaware n a surprise one. Luckily for me this breeds all look different with the Americauna having a beard like n they hatched first so it's easy for me. I don't have any idea so I hope someone here will help you, or if you have different incubators for hatching you can separate the eggs during lockdown.

 

[WashingtonWino]

My trouble is that I have marans, ameraucanas and olive Eggers (mix of the two) so I need to keep my olives separate from the ameraucanas and it is likely they will all have poofy cheeks and be black, blue or splash. Maybe some little plastic baskets or something.

Next question, I just asked the June group as well: should I be hatching fat end up in cut-down egg cartons or with the eggs laying on their sides? I did my last batch on their sides aND they were rolling all over the mesh bottom of the incubator. Should they be kept more stable or what? I'm probably over thinking this.

 

[Ciryluk3g]

This is my first time hatching and I'm using a cheapie Janoel 24 incubator.... I set 24 eggs yesterday and have the following eggs all from ebay: 6 silkie (from Paint rooster and black hens so all being well should get 50% paint/50% black), 6 silkie from multiple random colored hens (black, white, gold, blue, partridge ect), 6 black Japanese bantams, 6 pick n mix bantams (2 Vorwerk, 2 sablepoots, 1 cuckoo maran, 1 mystery egg) due to hatch 22nd July

 

[sabsandtheflock]

My trouble is that I have marans, ameraucanas and olive Eggers (mix of the two) so I need to keep my olives separate from the ameraucanas and it is likely they will all have poofy cheeks and be black, blue or splash. Maybe some little plastic baskets or something.

Next question, I just asked the June group as well: should I be hatching fat end up in cut-down egg cartons or with the eggs laying on their sides? I did my last batch on their sides aND they were rolling all over the mesh bottom of the incubator. Should they be kept more stable or what? I'm probably over thinking this.

Eggs do better when they are vertical (fat end facing up) during incubation.

 

[Free Feather]

My trouble is that I have marans, ameraucanas and olive Eggers (mix of the two) so I need to keep my olives separate from the ameraucanas and it is likely they will all have poofy cheeks and be black, blue or splash. Maybe some little plastic baskets or something.

Next question, I just asked the June group as well: should I be hatching fat end up in cut-down egg cartons or with the eggs laying on their sides? I did my last batch on their sides aND they were rolling all over the mesh bottom of the incubator. Should they be kept more stable or what? I'm probably over thinking this.

I lay them on the sides unless they have air cell issues. That is how they lay in the hen's nest.

 

[HiyokoInNippon]

Down to 11 eggs. I dropped one, a downside of hatching in a classroom setting is the constant candling (I rotate the victims to make sure no one egg is getting more pain than the others) and handling. I did see the embryo though which was cool. Also, at day 5, seeing some hearts and eye spots. Hard to get a good pic of that phenomenon though.

Also, can't rec led flashlights enough.

 

[altair]

My trouble is that I have marans, ameraucanas and olive Eggers (mix of the two) so I need to keep my olives separate from the ameraucanas and it is likely they will all have poofy cheeks and be black, blue or splash. Maybe some little plastic baskets or something.

Next question, I just asked the June group as well: should I be hatching fat end up in cut-down egg cartons or with the eggs laying on their sides? I did my last batch on their sides aND they were rolling all over the mesh bottom of the incubator. Should they be kept more stable or what? I'm probably over thinking this.

I've seen people use small plastic baskets or fine netting. I can't fit any baskets in my Brinsea so I think I'm going to experiment with cardboard.

Eggs should be on their sides come hatching time, as they would in a nest setting.