Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[BHep]

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It's a little yeller chick. Kinda scrawny, compared to most chicks I've hatched. Larger than a bantam breed chick. (Duh.) The BR is chubby, compared to it.

Got a picture or two, will upload and post tomorrow from laptop at Starbucks.

*giggling like a loon*

ya know everyone is going to be running off to TJ's to get eggs. I know if I'm up in the town that has one, I will be stopping in.

 

[Sumatra503]

I think dad must've misheard. This is the pic he took for me of the clock.

Final count is 5 chicks. 5 out of 5 is 100% hatch rate.

It's not my first time with 100%, but it is my first time with someone else's eggs. I practically had a heart attack.

Here are the little darlings. I took this at about 1:00 a.m. when I left the party for a bit to come check on them.

 

[debilorrah]

I am officially bummed out that so many died in their shells. I won't hatch ducks in this climate again without a humidity pump. At least I got 4.

 

[BlueBirdChick]

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[dsqard]

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Anybody????????

I'd leave them for now, and adjust your humidity in the incubator.

X2 From what I have been reading on the different hatching threads, if you are in a humid environment, you want to get your humidity around 60%? This is my first time hatching so I can't give really good advice. Hopefully someone with a lot of experience will see your question and give you some better help. I have set mine around 60% since lockdown. We are not in a terribly humid environment but we have been getting a lot of snow since lockdown so the air has been pretty humid.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

hi

 

[BHep]

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[StormyMoon]

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StormyMoon don't give up on them yet. I know exactly how you feel. Only an hour ago I thought the same thing about mine. This is my first hatch and I just figured that I must have messed something up along the way and they were all gone. Now I have two pips out of eight eggs. The first pip is already just a little bigger. I really think my temps were lower than what the bator was reading and that is why they are running 24 hours behind everyone. Is there any way yours could have been lower than you thought? Can you candle them and check for movement? I was planning on doing that tonight but got the pips before I got a chance to do it. We had company over for dinner or I would have candled earlier. Just think, you could be the die hard prize winner!

Yes there was a day when I walked in at the temp was down to 97 It was day before christmas or christmas day while I was cooking and to busy to sit over the bator it had been doing so well up until then I usually check on it every hour on the hour to watch the humidity mostly but when the temp dropped the humidity did to but not by much. I hope they will find a way to come through if not I will start over it is fun hatching I am trying really hard to get close to higher hatch rate and find my seasons when it is best. We do not have central ac or heating here so we only have electric heaters in the room it had been warm or I thought warm enough when I left the room but when I went back in it felt oddly cooler than normal and thats what made me check the bator. My husband turned off our electric heater in the bed room thinking it was warm enough outside to give it a rest.

 

[BHep]

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[luvanimals2]

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Anybody????????

I think mid eighties is too high. I run mine around 68-70 and it seems to work for me. I gradually put distilled water and check and re-check. Hard to say now. I usually will leave them until the 24 or 25th day and then I go in and try to see what happened.

Nancy