I am coming up flat footed for April Fool's Day. I normally come up with some great pranks. Last year, I sent my kids out to collect eggs on AFD (this should've been a flag, as I always collect eggs myself), and this is what they found:
(keep in mind we only had 4 or 5 laying hens at the time)
Then, the year before, I told the kids we were having cake for dinner.
It was a meatloaf cake. I used instant mashed potatoes for the frosting.
Then we had "meatloaf" for dessert- it was brownies made in a loaf pan.
Ok, so today is hatch day for me. I don't have 1 single pip. Is that normal? I did however hear one of the chicks screaming at me from the egg when I walked in the door from chores. I thought it had hatched it was so loud, but I was wrong. So I pulled up my chair by the incubator and I heard a very quiet peep, and I haven't heard anything else.
how long is to long for a goose to be in the air sack and no pips? I a getting nervous. I have heard it and it is getting weaker. been about 36 hours since it first started cheeping.
If you set on the set day that most of us used (St. Patrick's Day, 3/17) and they are chicken eggs (not serama), then lockdown is day 18, this coming Wednesday.
Yeah, I think you'd have to have an actual dessert as a back up (like your brownies) or there could be a riot ... at least at my house.
I may try this one of these days. Why wait until next year? This is a good practical joke at any time. Of course, I'd make a little gravy to go over the "cake." So the menu would read: Frosted Layer Cake with Brown Gravy.
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You survived all these years with only a C- for Charity in algebra? I rarely use my algebra, but it does help in formulating chicken feed recipes. Seriously, I think there needs to be a whole lot more practical math studied.
Ok, so today is hatch day for me. I don't have 1 single pip. Is that normal? I did however hear one of the chicks screaming at me from the egg when I walked in the door from chores. I thought it had hatched it was so loud, but I was wrong. So I pulled up my chair by the incubator and I heard a very quiet peep, and I haven't heard anything else.
I wish I could give you calming words, but I don't like it when that happens because mine usually pip on day 20. I had only two pips early on day 21 in a recent hatch and I figured out that my new and perfect $40 thermometer was reading about 1/2 a degree low even though it had been perfect for the last hatch. I turned up the temp the tiniest little bit and within 8 -12 hours things started going. But I was able to sit right there for those 12 hours and make sure that I didn't get the temp turned up too high by accident and monitored it straight thru the whole day.
I am not recommending this. Not at all. I haven't a clue what is going on at your end.
Hopefully, someone else has already supplied you with calming words of experience.
Well, I have known that I hatch early but this is the earliest. Some my early set eggs went into lockdown yesterday at midnight, so day 19 1/2 is pretty early but no one has unabsorbed yolks so far. I have ten half way hatched (still connected to the bottom of the shell) and 6 pipping. I will post pics as soon as i can.
For those of you that are wondering, my temp averages at 100 ( I let it regularly fluctuate from 98 to 102), I have had better hatches doing this than keeping a steady 99.5. However, this seems to change my incubation time (does not seem to affect the chicks development) to Bantams 18 1/2- 19 days and standard to 20 days.
I am coming up flat footed for April Fool's Day. I normally come up with some great pranks. Last year, I sent my kids out to collect eggs on AFD (this should've been a flag, as I always collect eggs myself), and this is what they found:
(keep in mind we only had 4 or 5 laying hens at the time)
Then, the year before, I told the kids we were having cake for dinner.
It was a meatloaf cake. I used instant mashed potatoes for the frosting.
Then we had "meatloaf" for dessert- it was brownies made in a loaf pan.
I read it earlier this morning and I've already forgotten!! I'm counting on a reminder closer to the day. Wednesday I think. Set day + 21 days - 3days. THat part I do remember!!