Candled and 34 of 40 started made it to lockdown. 10 of the 34 are olive eggers with dark shells and I can't see into them so in they went for lockdown. No is the awful part od just waiting, watching, pacing, looking, thinking, and hoping for the best. This is my daughters and I's first hatch and were so nervous. How do you guys do this over and over!
It gets easier over time. Well... for some of us anyway.
Yes it's ok to leave the eggs on their sides for hatching. They are ok with the unhatched ones.
Leave chicks in the bator til they are dry/fluffed out. They can stay in for 24 hours. It won't hurt them.
Good luck!
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I used to be an efficiency consultant. I would go into a new place, take 2 months to learn how the different departments worked together, then start asking every employee for their input on what would make their job easier (some ideas were great, some not so much but the gold always comes from the folks that already work there, just takes an impartial stranger to decide what works and to be hard nosed about it), then I would start making changes. The first thing I always had to remember was that almost everybody hates change!!!
Seriously strange to me but as horribly frustrating as the old system is no one wants to change anything! So my mantra was always "Hey, we'll try it for two weeks and if it doesn't work we can always go back to doing it the other way". Most folks will quit complaining at this point, thinking to themselves "I'll just insist at the end of two weeks that we go back to the old way". Well I was pretty good at what I did, so needless to say, we never went back to the old ways. Folks were always amazed at how much easier their jobs were once things ran much more smoothly and efficiently.
I used to throw parties where I brought several kinds of pie for my own employees as a way to say "job well done" after a particularly difficult project but never as a consultant.
So far 11/12 eggs have hatched at my son's kindergarten class! One more egg to go, no pip but there's still time. I'll be picking the chicks up today at the end of class. The teacher was shocked to see that so many chicks hatched. Apparently she's tried many times over the years to do classroom hatches and never got a single chick. I think it helped to incubate them at home most of the 21 days...less temp fluctuations.
Trisha
Congrats!!!
All I have left are 3 little marans pullet eggs and before my marans always hatched a day late so I'm assuming these will hatch on Easter as well.
I just locked down my three little eggs. I started with 53 or 54 but my friend's roo is having fertility issues. So the 3 little pullet eggs I have left are from my newly laying pullets. I'm still hopeful they will hatch. Just candled and they are developing very nicely!
Congrats to all of you that have pips already! Hope the early babies are all healthy as well as the bunches that are sure to follow!
GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY!!!
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Theres chickens too but I put them in a day late so the ducks should come first.
