Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[ChooksChick]

OH NO!! devastating news. I came home from work today to find my incubatar OFF!!! Went and checked the circuit breaker and somehow the circuit had blown. Could have gone off anytime in the last 12-15 hours. When I got home and realized the incubator temp was 75 degrees when I flipped the switch back on. This is only my second hatch. I have 45 eggs incubating. What are my chances that eggs will still hatch? Do I have any hope? Any advice wether hopeful or realistic would be helpful. So bummed right now. Is there anything I should do?

Nope- it should be fine. It happens. Sometimes a Mama gets back on the wrong nest, even in winter...and it usually works out okay.

 

[Melissa Rose]

OH NO!! devastating news. I came home from work today to find my incubatar OFF!!! Went and checked the circuit breaker and somehow the circuit had blown. Could have gone off anytime in the last 12-15 hours. When I got home and realized the incubator temp was 75 degrees when I flipped the switch back on. This is only my second hatch. I have 45 eggs incubating. What are my chances that eggs will still hatch? Do I have any hope? Any advice wether hopeful or realistic would be helpful. So bummed right now. Is there anything I should do?

I just had a little fridge type go out on me and the temp was down to 76 degrees before I noticed. The eggs were on day 17 and three out of five of them hatched this morning

 

[ronott1]

OH NO!! devastating news. I came home from work today to find my incubatar OFF!!! Went and checked the circuit breaker and somehow the circuit had blown. Could have gone off anytime in the last 12-15 hours. When I got home and realized the incubator temp was 75 degrees when I flipped the switch back on. This is only my second hatch. I have 45 eggs incubating. What are my chances that eggs will still hatch? Do I have any hope? Any advice wether hopeful or realistic would be helpful. So bummed right now. Is there anything I should do?

Hi Neighbor!

How long have they been incubation? Let it get back to hatching temperature and if they are past 10 days but before lockdown, candle them tomorrow.

It seems that too cold is not as bad as too hot.

I hope they make it!

 

[debs_flock]

Is there anything I should do?

Just what you did. Turn the incubator back on, let the temperature come back up to normal and candle the eggs again in a couple of days.

Oh, you might want to figure out what made your fuse blow, so it doesn't happen again.

Eggs are tougher than you might think, they may be perfectly fine. The hen does get off the nest daily while brooding, so eggs normally cool down once per day.

Good luck,
Deb

 

[buckabucka]

As I mentioned on Monday, I made an appointment to assist my ailing Himalayan across the Rainbow Bridge. (Yes, Deb, it was the Pleasant Valley Vet Hospital, thanks for the recommendation!)

Well, His Smudgeness decided to cross without any assistance about two hours before that appointment. He chose my bedroom closet as his place of departure.

My very good friends HHandbasket and Farmer Lew came over in the evening to dig Smudge's grave and perform a Native American burial, complete with burning sage, offerings for the Cedar under which we placed him, and sang the Traveling Song for his spirit.

Smudge, as was usual for him, just wanted to do it his way.

So sorry about Smudge

I'm glad he was able to die at home. I was very relieved to have mine go at home here. Our burial was not very elaborate, but we finally got our cat buried last weekend. The ground was still frozen when she died and we had to store the body in our freezer, which was kind of creeping us out!

 

[buckabucka]

Good morning hatchers.

It snowed here last night.

I'll be replanting my garden in a few weeks, methinks. The ground is completely frozen solid, again. Bye, bye, early spring.


Anyone else candling? We've hit day 10 so it's ok to do (just be careful handling the eggs). If you don't know what you're looking for, just candle a few, and leave them all in unless it's weepy or stinky. You should, however, start to realize what you're looking for after you've done a few. If there's something in the egg (besides the glob of yolk), leave it.

You may have frozen your seeds, SCG, but I COOKED mine! I had the pepper seeds in damp paper towels in a plastic bag. Our masonry heater has a warming bench and I put the seed there. Well, with this cold weather, we are building fires again, and that warming bench can get piping hot. I had forgotten about them there, wrapped in a towel. Time to pull out my pepper seed again....

 

[Wisher1000]

OH NO!! devastating news. I came home from work today to find my incubatar OFF!!! Went and checked the circuit breaker and somehow the circuit had blown. Could have gone off anytime in the last 12-15 hours. When I got home and realized the incubator temp was 75 degrees when I flipped the switch back on. This is only my second hatch. I have 45 eggs incubating. What are my chances that eggs will still hatch? Do I have any hope? Any advice wether hopeful or realistic would be helpful. So bummed right now. Is there anything I should do?

Get them back up to temp and give it a few days, you never know. You will know for sure in about 2 weeks!

Okay, I candled, sort of. I looked at all of them and made my best, uneducated guess. If there was little to no shadow, I marked it clear. If it had a smallish dark thing but was mostly clear, I marked it Quitter. If there was a dark stripe going all or nearly all the way around, I marked it blood ring. If there was a lot of shadow or the middle third was dark, I marked it good. Some were not clearly in one or the other category so I put it in the closest group and included a question mark. I didn't toss any of the eggs because I just don't know enough to do that. I did sniff each and none had any smell at all. Here's what I found...

2 clears
3 blood rings
6 quitters
33 good!
2 (the little pullet eggs that you guys talked me into including) are too thick shelled to see anything in! They are not too dark, they are a pale gray-green they are just too thick! Guess they will be a surprise, but I won't hold my breath for them.

So that's 35 (possibly) out of 46 that might hatch! I never saw any of them move, though, and that bothers me.....


Oh, and Cedarknob, don't feel lonely, I bought 24 Ameraucana (really EE) chicks at the feed store this morning because -- I wanted to. Nanner Nanner Boo Boo!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

OH NO!! devastating news. I came home from work today to find my incubatar OFF!!! Went and checked the circuit breaker and somehow the circuit had blown. Could have gone off anytime in the last 12-15 hours. When I got home and realized the incubator temp was 75 degrees when I flipped the switch back on. This is only my second hatch. I have 45 eggs incubating. What are my chances that eggs will still hatch? Do I have any hope? Any advice wether hopeful or realistic would be helpful. So bummed right now. Is there anything I should do?

They should be fine. I've had hens off the nest in winter, stone cold eggs... unplugged incubator for Valentines Day Hatch... it was all nasty fogged up, I thought they were gonners... I won best hatch rate that hatch... so... plug them back in, and don't worry.

You may have frozen your seeds, SCG, but I COOKED mine! I had the pepper seeds in damp paper towels in a plastic bag. Our masonry heater has a warming bench and I put the seed there. Well, with this cold weather, we are building fires again, and that warming bench can get piping hot. I had forgotten about them there, wrapped in a towel.
Time to pull out my pepper seed again....

HAHAHAHA. Glad I'm not the only one. I have rotten luck with peppers, too. I can get them to sprout and then that's it. Last year I had a few anemic looking pepper seedlings, which promptly got clipped by cutter worms when I planted them... I can never win.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

We have enough votes to call the Caption That Photo Contest (a week 2 contest).

The winner is...




CATTITUDE WITH HER ENTRY:





CONGRATULATIONS!

 

[Papa Brooder]

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Thanks all for the quick responses. I think my heart rate is coming back down. I am definitely wondering what caused it. I have one idea that perhaps a space heater in my kids room... but it has been in there the last three nights without any trouble.