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

[wolftracks]

OK I'm using cartons. I really haven't had a great success with them, but have had a few make it.

Should I grab them out and just lay them on the screen?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I have a pip at the wrong end. Now what?

 

[dsqard]

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Sooo excited for you Linda!

It gives me hope too. Still nothing here either. I have tried tapping on the bator to see if I can get some kind of response but nothing. I know they all had something in them before lockdown but I never saw any movement. I don't know if it is because I don't know how to candle properly or if it is because the shells are so dark. I am not opening the bator yet to check them. I won't try to pip them mainly because I don't know how to do that properly and would just kill anything that might be alive. I might try candling them later to see if any have internally pipped but since I am not hearing any peeping I don't think I have even that. I will leave them in until the 5th of January or I smell something. So far no smells, just looks like eight eggs that were just set.
Linda lots of good hatching vibes to you and you have got to post a pic of the TJ egg when it hatches.

 

[kathyinmo]

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It will be fine. I have had them hatch without a problem.

 

[GAGE]

The BCM that I helped get out of a dry shell is hanging on, he has been in the bator for 4 hours and still appears to be wet. Would it be a bad thing to take him out and put him in dry warm wash cloth and give him a few drops of sugar water? The temp in the bator is 100 and the humidity is at 74, but no other moving eggs, cheeps, or pips.

 

[MuranoFarms]

I sorta dropped the ball on the hatched at midnight contest

I went back to the party just before 11 and the silkie had been pipped for a few hours but it was a small pip and no progress at all! I figured he'd take forever so I didn't go back home to check after midnight. When I did get home at 1:30 he was out and fluffy. No clue on the time. He sure is cute though! Just now I noticed a pip on the last silkie egg (the one I didn't see any movement in at lockdown) so hopefully it'll be out and done soon so we can move to the brooder!


Yeay! I won a calender!

now I can track my hatches on that! Its going right next to the bator!
Thank you!

 

[NoseyChickens]

I tried using egg cartons to hatch, I didn't like it. This time I used the rubber rings you put on the end of your rolling pin to measure the thickness of the dough. They worked out great! No eggs rolling around, but the eggs could still be on their side and rock a bit to let the chicks work their way out. I have also used silicone cupcake wrappers that I cut down, they don't absorb any moisture and still hold the eggs in place during hatching.

 

[texasgal]

I'm not even going to try to catch up ... you gabby guys and gals! lol.

I ended up with 3 out of 6 under a broody. 2 hatched yesterday, 1 sometime during the night ..

Here's number 1 - with number 2 peaking out from under mamma..

Here are the 3 of them this morning ..

This is my first broody .. I gotta say, it beats fretting over temps and humidity and turning ... just "Set'em and forget'em"

 

[BlueBirdChick]

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hey me to

so youre not alone.

 

[kathyinmo]

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The higher humidity is why he is still wet. You could grab him out and put him under a heat light, but let him get chilled.