July Hatch-a-long

[CarolinaHen]

yep, I want a broody... Set it & forget it!

Plus, my broody hen is a GREAT mom. I'm hoping she goes broody again soon so I don't have to stress over incubating in August

 

[Gen9]

Incubating is such an addiction! After the last ones hatch I was going to be done for the year but after losing 33 in that junk incubator I may refill one.more time then call er' quits. I still have 3 broodies and 2 staggered hatches by Aug1. Ughs

Oh wow, sorry about that. I might not have luck with this one, August is not a very good month in eastern NC

 

[dolfi]

Well my first hatch was a blazing failure, with the exception of two adorable Lavender Ameraucana chicks. Out of 50+ eggs and $150+ in the cost of eggs for that first batch, I'm a little disappointed. I consoled myself with a pair of Cuckoo Orps that I'd been wanting.

Rounds 2 and 3 are in the bators now, and if these are as much of a failure, I'm going to pack the darn incubators up and send them to someone else.

This time I'm going to try to keep a far more even temperature - I'm using Oregon Scientific digital units that provide temperature and humidity levels and I've checked those to be fairly accurate with some of those aquarium thermometers and a reptile thingy-bobber. I wonder if on the last hatch, I just tinkered with it too darn much.

Question for you all - what are you running humidity at during your incubation (prior to lockdown)? I didn't adjust it at all on my first hatch - I really just tried to watch the air cells and didn't even add any humidity until lockdown. I'm wondering if I should try to maybe keep the humidity up a little bit more this time?

The strange part is that when my husband looked inside my flunker eggs, they seemed to fail at different stages... I had some early failures in some Marans (couldn't see inside those so didn't pull them) and some later failures in a couple of gorgeous Silkies. Hearing about those broke my heart.

PS - HUGE hugs to chickydee64. You are a treasure. Thank you for your kindness. xoxo

Here a wet baby #1 and now 7 pips, wish they'd hurry to keep this little one company.

so cute i would love to be able to put picts but phone not good on internet





today day 20 and got four fuzzy buts. seven still in bator. five internal piped and two of those external as well. one looks watery it was moving at lockdown so i dont know if i should take it out or if its ok.


does some one knows what that means?

 

[Gen9]

CarolinaHen; you should leave the house for an hour, then come back. With my first pip, we were gone in the morning, came back there was a pip! Then we left later that afternoon, came home & found it had zipped! There seems to be the most action when we're not looking. It hatched exactly 24hrs after lockdown. It later died because of the cord I thought it would take care of itself, but it didn't

 

[Gen9]

so cute i would love to be able to put picts but phone not good on internet

It looks watery? The external pip? Or a chick already hatched?

 

[Sclark73]

so cute i would love to be able to put picts but phone not good on internet

you mean air cell hasn't increased fully so the fluid hasn't been absorbed? I don't know the correct terms. If it's what im thinking your talking about maybe you just need to wait a bit longer for it.

 

[Gen9]

Ditto

you mean air cell hasn't increased fully so the fluid hasn't been absorbed? I don't know the correct terms. If it's what im thinking your talking about maybe you just need to wait a bit longer for it.

 

[Sclark73]

CarolinaHen; you should leave the house for an hour, then come back. With my first pip, we were gone in the morning, came back there was a pip! Then we left later that afternoon, came home & found it had zipped! There seems to be the most action when we're not looking. It hatched exactly 24hrs after lockdown. It later died because of the cord I thought it would take care of itself, but it didn't

Sorry about your loss.

 

[CGinJCMO]

Quote: Need you to come to my house.

Actually, what I really need is someone to get after my 2 boys that they can't just leave their trash and junk all over so I don't have to clean.

I have a Hatching Record spreadsheet my daughter made me to keep track of all these hatches. She also made me sheets for chicken purchase timeline ans deaths so I can always have a reference.

Wow!!

I just keep track of chicks once they hatch...and when they die after living for a month or more (in other words if they die early because they were weak I don't do much to acknowledge them like name them and figure out if boy or girl, etc.). May have to rethink what I keep track of.

CG

 

[dolfi]

It looks watery? The external pip? Or a chick already hatched?

you mean air cell hasn't increased fully so the fluid hasn't been absorbed? I don't know the correct terms. If it's what im thinking your talking about maybe you just need to wait a bit longer for it.

no lol


i have seven eggs in bator, one of the eggs was fine at lockdown but now it looks watery, like what is inside is swimimg but not moving. the other six eggs are piping. do i take out the watery egg?