June Hatch A Long

[CluckNDoodle]

I have 6x Welsummer eggs, 6x Partridge Gold Brahma, and 6x Gold-laced Orpington
All due to set on 1st-3rd of June (depending on when my thermo-hygrometer comes)

Hope everything goes well!
I'll try to get temp. 37.5 degrees c, and 45-55% humidity for 1-18, 55-65% for last three days;
is that correct??

45-55% humidity is perfect for the first 18 days, I usually aim for right at 65% for the last 3 days personally but this depends on your Incubator. Once the chicks start pipping and hatching your humidity will also spike so you'll learn the sweet spot for your incubator. Good luck with your hatch!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Yep, that's me. The refrigerated one was a dud unfortunately. One of the other eggs quit early too, so I'm down to four.

Well that's a bummer about the fridge egg. I was really hoping you would come back with a miraculous tale and you could name the chick Frigidaire lol! I have my fingers crossed for your other eggs!! I was going to offer to ship you some Buff English Orpington eggs if your hatch didn't work out but I just saw that you're in Scandinavia so I don't imagine I would have the proper certifications to do that...

 

[AquaDuck]

Well that's a bummer about the fridge egg. I was really hoping you would come back with a miraculous tale and you could name the chick Frigidaire lol! I have my fingers crossed for your other eggs!! I was going to offer to ship you some Buff English Orpington eggs if your hatch didn't work out but I just saw that you're in Scandinavia so I don't imagine I would have the proper certifications to do that...

Aw that's sweet! If my country didn't have crazy strict rules about import of animals, I'd gladly accept. Yeah, I was sorta hoping for a great story of the fridge-chick too. Haha!

 

[jolenesdad]

Yeah, Orpingtons are awesome, tame, calm and fluffy. My one Buff Orpington girl died, so I set the last 6 eggs of her. Only 4 were fertile, so I hope hope hope! they'll all make it and that there's at least one girl in there.

:-(

 

[PirateGirl]

So out of everyone in this group who has the earliest hatch date??? When will we start seeing the little fuzz balls arrive?

 

[jolenesdad]

@Doublete i just read your notes and I’m SO JEALOUS of your breeds!!!

 

[ariri30]

Well that's a bummer about the fridge egg. I was really hoping you would come back with a miraculous tale and you could name the chick Frigidaire lol! I have my fingers crossed for your other eggs!! I was going to offer to ship you some Buff English Orpington eggs if your hatch didn't work out but I just saw that you're in Scandinavia so I don't imagine I would have the proper certifications to do that...

That’s so sweet. I love this site. People are so nice

 

[ariri30]

45-55% humidity is perfect for the first 18 days, I usually aim for right at 65% for the last 3 days personally but this depends on your Incubator. Once the chicks start pipping and hatching your humidity will also spike so you'll learn the sweet spot for your incubator. Good luck with your hatch!

I really don’t know how to control humidity in my incubator. If I add a drop of water is reading at 75 if it’s dry is at 25. I don’t get it. I hatched my first in a homemade incubator with great results and I decided to buy the real thing and the humidity is way too high. Wish me luck. I set 15 bantam eggs only three were fertile. I’ll need a lot of luck for this little guys to make it out. Hatch day is June 5th
The incubator brand is hatchmate from amazon

 

[PirateGirl]

Broody Hatching Questions!

So to those of you who have hatched with a broody, do you usually leave her with the flock or separate her?

If it makes a difference, currently my ducks and chickens are separate. The broody chicken is sitting on duck eggs in the chicken coop. There are 3 other chicken hens in there, all a few years old, no roosters, no adult ducks in this coop/run.

I don't really want to remove her, but was thinking about installing some sort of temporary partition when it gets closer to hatch. I will need to dig in my recycling and make a new secondary feeder/waterer that ducklings can use since they won't be tall enough to use the rubber livestock bowls in the run.

Would you remove her and set her up in a dog kennel? Would you build a partition? Would you just let her do her thing and protect them and not worry about? Would you wait and see how the other chicken hens act or is this too risky?

 

[Allie Grace Sanders]

I'm popping in! I've got barnyard mix (GL Wyandotte, Sapphire Gem, ISA Brown, Leghorn, EE, Barred Rock, and Welummer,) all bred with a beautiful BO roo. There are seven and are due to hatch on Fathers Day and the day after. Cant wait!