March 2017! Hatch with us!

[MontainBourbons]

Yes, please post some. You're right that your own eggs shouldn't have oxygen issues... hmm. I think humidity plays in too, but it shouldn't keep that many from hatching. Something else is going on. What day are you on? And there's no sign of life at all?

I am on day 22 but I candled a few and there is no movement. I am going to wait until tomorrow afternoon to do a final candle than an eggtopsy.

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

I'll join the hatch-along! I'm already at day 18. Just put my eggs into lockdown. It is a small hatch, just 6 Olive Eggers from my own flock.

I really prefer to hatch with a broody hen. All last fall I had to constantly break my hens of broodiness, but since the New Year, not one broody hen. I finally got impatient, and set eggs in the incubator. Then yesterday, a broody Cuckoo Marans! We were out of town over the weekend, and this overly ambitious girl was trying to sit on 24 eggs!

I gave her 24 hours, and then decided this evening to attempt an egg switch-a-roo. I put the incubator eggs in the broody pen on the floor, and moved the hen in the dark. She did not like it...not one bit! But I locked the pen and decided to give her some time to adjust. An hour later I could still hear her freaking out from the house. So I freed the hen, and gathered the eggs, and back into the incubator they went, now in lockdown. On the plus side, I'll be able to watch them hatch.

 

[Jessimom]

I'll join the hatch-along! I'm already at day 18. Just put my eggs into lockdown. It is a small hatch, just 6 Olive Eggers from my own flock.

I really prefer to hatch with a broody hen. All last fall I had to constantly break my hens of broodiness, but since the New Year, not one broody hen. I finally got impatient, and set eggs in the incubator. Then yesterday, a broody Cuckoo Marans! We were out of town over the weekend, and this overly ambitious girl was trying to sit on 24 eggs!

I gave her 24 hours, and then decided this evening to attempt an egg switch-a-roo. I put the incubator eggs in the broody pen on the floor, and moved the hen in the dark. She did not like it...not one bit! But I locked the pen and decided to give her some time to adjust. An hour later I could still hear her freaking out from the house. So I freed the hen, and gathered the eggs, and back into the incubator they went, now in lockdown. On the plus side, I'll be able to watch them hatch.

I had the same issue. I had a broody Orpington. We don't have a rooster, so any egg she was sitting on, wasn't ever going to hatch. Other hens would climb in with her and lay eggs, and she'd collect them. We'd take them away. I decided to give her a few fertile eggs I had. I set up a nice secluded area, and put the eggs in a bin, and moved her and she wanted NOTHING to do with it. So, I let her out and I gave these eggs to the broody silky pile I posted earlier. Thankfully they were in an area I was able to easily close off. So, I didn't have to touch these very irritable hens. They are now sitting on a dozen eggs between the 7 of them.

Good luck with your hatch!

 

[Lamancha]

Well crud.
I'm sitting here in the middle of a power outage. I have seven 1 day old chicks screaming their heads off, four 3 weeks old chicks, nine 5 week old chicks (outside in the coop), a hatcher with two piped eggs at 76 degrees, and an incubator with 30 some eggs on day 10 at 81 degrees. Sometimes I hate living on the coast. 70 mile per hour wind! Yuck!

 

[Jessimom]

Well crud.
I'm sitting here in the middle of a power outage. I have seven 1 day old chicks screaming their heads off, four 3 weeks old chicks, nine 5 week old chicks (outside in the coop), a hatcher with two piped eggs at 76 degrees, and an incubator with 30 some eggs on day 10 at 81 degrees. Sometimes I hate living on the coast. 70 mile per hour wind! Yuck!

I just had an incubator failure - on day 19 - eggs were at 73 degrees or on their way to 73 degrees over a 12 to 18 hour period. I still had 15 out of 30 chicks hatch after they warmed up. I REALLY hope your power comes back on soon! Do yo have blankets you can wrap around the 'bator?

 

[lilwildrabbit]

That's where my portable generator comes in handy

 

[yeye5]

Thank you, everyone! Sorry I overthink everything I do and then end up confusing myself sometimes!

I'm just praying at least 1 or the 18 hatches because of all the emotions I've invested

You sound like you could be my long lost twin! I hope they all hatch and that you have a blast. From my experience, especially very recently, each hatched chick deserves it's own birthday party!

 

[Cerise1924]

Just got word from Papa's Poultry that they are shipping my hatching eggs - yay!! I should be able to get my incubation started this week. Anyone else setting eggs this week for a late March hatch?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hopefully I can get an incubator and hatch haha

 

[HenLeia]

I just had an incubator failure - on day 19 - eggs were at 73 degrees or on their way to 73 degrees over a 12 to 18 hour period.  I still had 15 out of 30 chicks hatch after they warmed up.  I REALLY hope your power comes back on soon!  Do yo have blankets you can wrap around the 'bator?  

Hot water bottles?