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This was my second attempt hatching eggs. I only have two hens laying so some of the eggs were a bit old but I threw them in any way. I didn't think I would have much luck because the temp fluctuates a lot in this old house. There were three out of four fertile Serama eggs to hatch on my first attempt...one just stopped developing.
They started hatching last weekend and 14 of them hatched....I was shocked because I was just expecting maybe a couple to hatch...lolol...Even though I was checking them, I lost one to pasty butt.
I had been so caught up with the new chicks I hadn't unplugged the incubator so I did that Tuesday night. Wed night after cleaning and feeding them, one chick was chirping loud. I kept trying to find it but they all looked ok.
It was driving Dottie my mother hen Dachshund crazy and she was driving me crazy....lolol...She kept going to the incubator which was sitting by the brooder and whining. I finally checked the brooder and there was a little chick running around screaming bloody murder...lolol..so I'm back up to 14 chicks. I really feel bad because there was also another one that had piped but it didn't make it out of the shell. I'll know next time not to unplug it without checking the eggs first.
The humidity was between 40/50% and once it dropped down to 38%. Hatching was at 60/65%. I'm not sure what it was when the last one hatched...I was too busy getting the chick out to notice...lolol
Good luck on your hatch!!
Sandy
OMG! I can totally see that happening to me too! Sorry you lost one but glad you had that little one hatch out!
Here are mine so far....
Zephyr, 2 weeks old now
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm236/zoomummzy/DSC00336.jpg
Dina, 1 week old
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm236/zoomummzy/DSC00294.jpg
These are all 2-3 days old
Helena, but we think she might be a Brutus
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm236/zoomummzy/DSC00307.jpg
Iris
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm236/zoomummzy/DSC00308.jpg
The gang with Anthea in the front -she is pure white with black spots on her back and head
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm236/zoomummzy/DSC00346.jpg
Aggie, she has a slipped tendon that I cannot put back in but it hasn't slowed her down much
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm236/zoomummzy/DSC00332.jpg
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm236/zoomummzy/DSC00349.jpg
Zephyr sleeping with Aggie in her playpen
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm236/zoomummzy/DSC00330.jpg
Juliette is right those are just tooo darn cute!!! I love their names.
Had I expected them all to hatch, I wouldn't have had any to hatch...lolol...so just be careful as to how many eggs you put in or the same thing could happen to you!!
I have one than just want's to be held. He screams when I put him back in with the others but is quite as long as I hold him. It's also the smallest one. I'm typing with one hand now...lolol
Sandy
I have no idea on the colors either. Some of the chicks I just hatched are from a pair I got from Jerry. The three in my first hatch were from the same pair.
