June Hatch A Long

[jolenesdad]

@CluckNDoodle i just was looking st your photos again, I think all the ? ones are gonna surprise us at next candle.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

@CluckNDoodle i just was looking st your photos again, I think all the ? ones are gonna surprise us at next candle.

I hope so!!

 

[Bookworm0124]

Everyone making me INSANELY JEALOUS of their broodies!!!!

Sounds like an excellent plan!

I've been waiting all spring for my girl to go broody! I even got an incubator and used my neighbor's hen because I had no hope

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Everyone making me INSANELY JEALOUS of their broodies!!!!

Sounds like an excellent plan!

We somehow ended up with many broody birds in our flock! A real good news/bad news thing, as we’ve had to “break their broody” many times. Right now, we have a hen with chicks and two that are broody, out of only 9 hens! We are trying to encourage one broody and break the other, and we are currently getting few table eggs, which is fine for us but tough when you’ve established customers. Nonetheless, we are grateful for and love our broody gals!

 

[Tatuana]

Spincycle popped out early!! They're not officially due until tomorrow night. I have two peepers in the room that I bought yesterday afternoon. I was down playing video games when I heard the babies screaming. I checked and they were fine. So I shrugged and left them. Screaming again thirty minutes later. Peepers were asleep and the crying was in the wrong side of the room. Checked the incubator and SpinCycle was out! Screaming bloody murder for whatever reason. And Baby #2 has pipped!

They're early birds! I'm wondering if the two peepers peeping helped convince them to pop. Fingers crossed for the other ones. I have six total in the incubator.

 

[jolenesdad]

How exciting @Tatuana !!


Just did a quick candle on my eggs. I’m LOVING WHITE EGGS I didn’t even have to take them out of the turner or turn the light off!

Threw out 4 non fertile eggs and 1 clear blood ring. Leaves me with 31 eggs in the bator. Everything is developing really well, including all the shipped and saddled air cells. Not thinking I’ll get too much from those.

I weighed my eggs and they’re PERFECT on weight loss, too, for six days. :-D

 

[Tatuana]

Promise not to spam you all, but I'm finding hatched baby hilarious! I've yet to see one break out of the egg so I'm watching until I go to bed. (My laptop is by the incubator anyway). My other babies I had to go to bed before they fully dried (Why do I ONLY have babies at night?!). SpinCycle is keeping up to his/her name! Now that they're drying a bit they keep standing up, fluffing their wings and spinning in a circle before flopping down again.

I hadn't realized just how DEAD they look after they pop out of their egg. Scary!

I have one other that's thinking about coming out here soon. SpinCycle kind of pipped and zipped so quick that I didn't even realize it was happening. This one is taking his time to make sure he gets it right. And the others are happily snoring in their eggs.


In the form of an actual question - SpinCycle keeps walking over the eggs and knocking them around. Is that a bad thing?

 

[Kris5902]

So I candled again today and removed one early quitter, I’m at day 17/18. I forget if I go into lockdown on 18 or 19? But everything looked fairly good tonight with that one exception. I might have a second quitter, but candling my Marans eggs is so challenging, I left it in just in case. Also my humidity is naturally high, I haven’t added any water and been steady at 48% it jumped up to 56% with this candling, I’m very worried about adding water for hatching, as last time I had really high humidity issues at hatching.

 

[AquaDuck]

@PirateGirl @jolenesdad @the cluck juggler
Thank you again for trying to help! I was impatient and made a dark room to go ahead and candle them now instead of waiting until tonight. It's not looking good for most of them. I can't provide a picture of what I saw before setting them but there are clearly blood streaks in most of them now that doesn't bode well...I do see a few that may still be viable. So I think these were unfortunately likely stored outside and this heat caused them to be in varying stages of partial/early development. Not everyone is as careful with their hatching eggs as I am. We live and we learn I guess. I'll wait until the end of the week to give up on them just in case since they've only been in the incubators for a few days but this looks like it's going to be a sad outcome.

Never heard of eggs starting to develop just sitting in regular outside heat. But then again I live in a cold country. Interesting. But sad for your part, at least 3 of those look dead. Some forget that storing eggs is an essential part of the incubation process (like me, I forget...)
Crossing fingers that the rest makes it!

 

[AquaDuck]

So I candled again today and removed one early quitter, I’m at day 17/18. I forget if I go into lockdown on 18 or 19? But everything looked fairly good tonight with that one exception. I might have a second quitter, but candling my Marans eggs is so challenging, I left it in just in case. Also my humidity is naturally high, I haven’t added any water and been steady at 48% it jumped up to 56% with this candling, I’m very worried about adding water for hatching, as last time I had really high humidity issues at hatching.

Most go to lockdown at 18 days. But it depends on the development of course, if they're late 19 is ok. I'd recommend not adding water until they've externally pipped. Extra water during hatch is mostly about keeping the inside of the egg moist while after the shell is broken.