March 2018 Hatch-a-long

[ChickenMath101]

Day 19 and babies are cheeping to me!! Eggs are rocking around and they’re hollering away!
Can we expect early chicks??

 

[pepe1]

Congratulations on your hatch i am on day 15 and have somehow have not lost electricity despite two storms in 3 days in Rhode Island and numerous power outages and trees down including two on my property one of which brushed against one of my coops, feeling very blessed!!

 

[ChickenMath101]

Congratulations on your hatch i am on day 15 and have somehow have not lost electricity despite two storms in 3 days in Rhode Island and numerous power outages and trees down including two on my property one of which brushed against one of my coops, feeling very blessed!!

Eek! Hopefully no power loss for you!!

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Day 19 and babies are cheeping to me!! Eggs are rocking around and they’re hollering away!
Can we expect early chicks??

Maybe or maybe not. Internal to external pip is 24 hours. External pip to zip/hatch another 24. Which will put you at day 21.

That said the ones cheeping like crazy seem more motivated to hatch. And get the job done a bit sooner.

Either way the babies are on the way!

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Congratulations on your hatch i am on day 15 and have somehow have not lost electricity despite two storms in 3 days in Rhode Island and numerous power outages and trees down including two on my property one of which brushed against one of my coops, feeling very blessed!!

Fingers crossed for an uneventful incubation.

 

[Chris240]

Day 18. Getting ready for candling and "lock down". I've been running dry, under 30%, and need to partly disassemble my 'bator to crank the humidity. It's about 65 F in my basement so, step one is a warm fuzzy place for my eggs which will be out of the incubator for a while.
Small cooler preheating under my brooder lamp. It will hold 100ish for an hour or so.

 

[Chris240]

I started with 12. I dropped one on day 7. I pulled 1 unfertile and 2 early quitters on day 18. 8 look promising for hatch on Sunday.

 

[ChickenMath101]

My rocking babies this morning turned into two external pips tonight! Babies are coming, ready or not! (Um. We aren’t!!! I expected to have through tomorrow to prepare their brooder...)

 

[ChickenMath101]

We have our first baby! 19 days. Fully absorbed yolk, no wet goo or anything else. ‍ He’s moving around and cheeping, hoping for a friend. Hopefully one comes along later tonight. I think we are up to 7 more pips plus this hatchling out of 22 that made it to lockdown.

 

[ChickenMath101]

Day 21. Five babies are out including 1/2 repaired eggs! One hatched yesterday the rest hatched early this morning. Four yellow and one yellow with racing stripes.

Now I need to get my kids off to school so I can set up the brooder and watch chicks hatch!


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Congrats!! Sweet babies!