June Hatch A Long

[Kris5902]

Nope not much we can do to lower the humidity here when it's pouring outside. Of course not much I can do to mow the lawn either so the grass is now 2 feet tall lol. Welcome to the jungle.

If you were closer I’d lend you some sheep to fix that! are the dark spots on your eggs potential pips, or dirt spots... not being judgmental, I don’t wash either, I just can’t tell on my phone. Stopped in at the pub for Internet and a quick supper before heading fully home to check my eggs, so I could finally check out your link to the video!

 

[LilyD]

If you were closer I’d lend you some sheep to fix that! are the dark spots on your eggs potential pips, or dirt spots... not being judgmental, I don’t wash either, I just can’t tell on my phone. Stopped in at the pub for Internet and a quick supper before heading fully home to check my eggs, so I could finally check out your link to the video!

Dirt so far I can't see any pips but I can hear them making noise every once and a while. The eggs came from ducks that were pretty muddy when we got them. The X's and O'x I put on there but the other marks are all just regular dirt.

I have two horses but they don't eat fast enough and the grass grows faster than they can eat it especially with all the rain.

 

[Kris5902]

I have chirps and two pips!!! They are early birds again! Due tomorrow. Which is strange because I was running a little cool. And I was very careful in my egg storage, maybe these ones were closer to the center heater of the incubator?

Humidity is at 48% still... so annoyed I had to be away today. I’m heading up to my trailer to get a brooder box set up to bring down and a sleeping bag.

 

[Kris5902]

@LilyD you have two as well!

 

[LilyD]

Candled to check on progress since I hadn't seen any external pips. Humidity is down to 50 and now I am hearing lots of noise coming from the eggs. I made the air holes in the end of the egg since they have been internally pipped for 24 hours now and right off the bat they started rocking and talking again. Today is day 33 as of 6:30pm tonight, but I am thinking that they may have been incubated a day or two before I got them. I didn't candle them before I put them in the incubator to start.

 

[Kris5902]

Oh, I saw the air holes and got excited for you when I got back to internet at the farm... ooops! I added a little wet towel. I expect a completely sleepless night tonight! I’m a worrier

 

[LilyD]

Oh, I saw the air holes and got excited for you when I got back to internet at the farm... ooops! I added a little wet towel. I expect a completely sleepless night tonight! I’m a worrier

That's okay we can stay up together already stressing over them and it's not even day 35 yet lol. I read the assisted hatch guide and they said that most die from no air after they internally pip. So the ones that have been pipped for a while I put an air hole in which started them dancing again. I have two others that look days behind these 7 so thinking they may have been being incubated before I took them home. Which means they are closer to day 34/35 than 33. Or they are just early birds lol. Either way it's coffee and the couch for me tonight.

 

[LilyD]

I have to say that I love this guide by Pyxis
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

 

[Knighstar679]

@CluckNDoodle I had eggs that spend several days developing on their shipping trip from Texas to New York last May(2018), I let them rest for 12 hours- 16 hours out of my incubator then put them in. While I had some really wonky air cells I had 8 out of 12 hatch, but 4 needed assist due to malposition. So some of those started eggs can still make it.

My current batch of Australian Spotted Duck eggs I am very sad at because my air cells after almost 4 full days staying still are still not solid. Meaning I had to fire up my China bator because it is an upright turner. When I looked at air cells today I had 3 spider veins I could see in eggs. I will be disappointed if only three develop as these eggs are so hard to get.

 

[Allie Grace Sanders]

You all with babies are making me jealous! End of day 10 for Summer and day 2 for Lacey here.