July Hatch-A-Long

[Amykins]

17 eggs?! Someone's been VERY busy this season!

 

[joff160583]

Done I have 8 ixworth eggs in due 4th or 5th oops

 

[loobyloo88]

Hi all, I'm ne to BYC and chicken keeping! we've recently moved and now have a suitable garden to keep chickens, so my experienced grandad is aiding us in hatching our first chicks :0) we have 9 Welsummer Bantams currently in an incubator due to hatch on 16th July. I'm hoping for four girls! good odds?

 

[ChickyChickens]

Hi all, I'm ne to BYC and chicken keeping! we've recently moved and now have a suitable garden to keep chickens, so my experienced grandad is aiding us in hatching our first chicks :0) we have 9 Welsummer Bantams currently in an incubator due to hatch on 16th July. I'm hoping for four girls! good odds?

Jip cool odds! I hate it when it happens that one gets soo many rooster and some or only a few hens !! IT is soo stupid!
Oh yes and welcome!!!!!

 

[Amykins]

Man, I hope you get more hens than roos, otherwise you'll have to get rid of them when they're older. ;;

 

[Deb B]

Hi all, I'm ne to BYC and chicken keeping! we've recently moved and now have a suitable garden to keep chickens, so my experienced grandad is aiding us in hatching our first chicks :0) we have 9 Welsummer Bantams currently in an incubator due to hatch on 16th July. I'm hoping for four girls! good odds?

Welcome! And I'm wishing you luck. In May I hatched 9 Welsummers and got 7 pullets and 2 cockerels. Way better than my expectation, (It kinda makes up for the time I bought 6 "straight run" chicks from a chicken swap and ended up with 6 roos to find homes for!)

 

[AustinRhea]

I candled my 6 of 36 on June 18th (Day 5) and I could see veins in 5 of the 6. The 6th was a blue egg and hard to see much. On June 21st (day 8) I candled all 36. 2 were definite duds. I could see veins and such in 15 of the 16 of my white eggs. The 16th had the blood line so I dumped it. The 12 blues were difficult but I could see veins or a mass the wasn't round in 11 of the 12. I ditched the one I could only see a round form in. When I cracked it, it had blood in it but hadn't developed beyond that. The 8 brown eggs were the most difficult. I think I saw veins in 3 of the 4 light brown eggs but couldn't see anything at all in the 4 copper colored eggs. That leaves 34 eggs in the incubator.

HELP!!!
According to an article on here about incubating it states to remove the 2 red vent plugs on a certain day. That was yesterday. Ever since I did that I can't keep my humidity up at 55%. It dropped to 46% earlier today and when I came home from Tractor Supply it has dropped to 38%. I added a ton of water and upped the temperature some but it isn't helping. What should I do? Help me please! I don't want to loose these guys after so much work and so close to hatching. They should hatch next week either on the 4th or 5th.

 

[eliseswart]

Hi all, I'm ne to BYC and chicken keeping! we've recently moved and now have a suitable garden to keep chickens, so my experienced grandad is aiding us in hatching our first chicks :0) we have 9 Welsummer Bantams currently in an incubator due to hatch on 16th July. I'm hoping for four girls! good odds?

Welcome!

Last year I had 8 chicks: 7 roosters and only 1 hen, and a friend of mine had 18 eggs of my chickens in the incubator ended up with 100% rooster. So, I'm wondering if it is our rooster of just coincidence. We'll see what the current eggs will bring in 10 days.

Good luck!

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I candled my 6 of 36 on June 18th (Day 5) and I could see veins in 5 of the 6. The 6th was a blue egg and hard to see much. On June 21st (day 8) I candled all 36. 2 were definite duds. I could see veins and such in 15 of the 16 of my white eggs. The 16th had the blood line so I dumped it. The 12 blues were difficult but I could see veins or a mass the wasn't round in 11 of the 12. I ditched the one I could only see a round form in. When I cracked it, it had blood in it but hadn't developed beyond that. The 8 brown eggs were the most difficult. I think I saw veins in 3 of the 4 light brown eggs but couldn't see anything at all in the 4 copper colored eggs. That leaves 34 eggs in the incubator.

HELP!!!
According to an article on here about incubating it states to remove the 2 red vent plugs on a certain day. That was yesterday. Ever since I did that I can't keep my humidity up at 55%. It dropped to 46% earlier today and when I came home from Tractor Supply it has dropped to 38%. I added a ton of water and upped the temperature some but it isn't helping. What should I do? Help me please! I don't want to loose these guys after so much work and so close to hatching. They should hatch next week either on the 4th or 5th.

I never remove vent plugs. Day 1-18 i haave humidity between 30-40. Then 18-21 I have humidity between 60-70

 

[StarMeKritten]

I candled my eggs last night. Most of them looked great! I pulled 5 eggs out of the 40 that I set. 2 were BLRW eggs, 2 were mixed breed eggs that I bought for fun, and 1 from my flock. My olive eggers all looked good, though the eggs were very hard to candle. I'm excited for those! I've been wanting some for awhile. I have a couple more eggs that I was unsure of and will have to candle those again in a few days. A few of my girls just started laying and I added a few of their eggs to the incubator to check fertility. Sure, I could've just cracked one open, but what's the fun in that? It's too early to be sure, but it looks like the eggs from the one pullet might be fertile.