March 2018 Hatch-a-long

[topdog24]

I have 42 eggs going to lock down today, have 84 more going the 3rd of march

 

[gimmie birdies]

Hubby wants to go to HI during my hatch! I hope he has a good time!

 

[Chris240]

WARNING: GRAPHIC PICTURE!!!!
I candled last night, early day 8 I think. Two look like they might not have been fertile I'll give them a few more days. One I have no idea. Air cell on top, bottom 1/3 looks like all the others, the middle is too dark to see anything. The other nine... make that eight, look good..
Notes to self: Eggs really are slippery little buggers and don't candle over a cement floor

 

[gimmie birdies]

Sorry- I sit on a carpet to candle, because I have dropped a time or 2.

 

[gimmie birdies]

the health food store eggs that are on the right, (day 4) are showing signs of being fertile, one of the little white eggs ,may have a blood ring, not pulling any till day 7. I know nothing about these eggs other than the health food store bought them from a farm one hr. away. I do not know how old they were when I put them in incubator, but I am hopeful. I see faint lines and spiderwebs in the ones on the left they came from a friend who lives about 30 min. away. I will check them on Fri.

 

[toomanyjewels]

Well i set my 15 eggs and today I noticed brown stuff dried to one of the bantam eggs so that one is not good. Hoping the other 14 do better.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Power out this morning I put a down coat around incubator that still read 99.

 

[gimmie birdies]

more power outages coming they say because of the weather.

 

[toomanyjewels]

What do I do in case of it power outage?

 

[gimmie birdies]

I looked it up in the "chicken bible" which is hatching & brooding your own chicks, By Gail Damrow, She says let the eggs get cold, don't try and wrap blankets around it because the eggs will go dormant, which is better than developing in the wrong temp. She says 12 hrs. with no power will only delay the hatch, even an 18hr. will be bad on the hatch rate, but still not fully kill the eggs.