MARCH Hatch-A-Long 2015: Please Read the First Post to JOIN the H-A-L

[DUCKOBSESSED]

Thanks! Here are some better pics. I dont know what they are. A friend has a friend who gives her eggs to eat and since our chickens stopped laying for the last few monthes she gave us some extra. Two dozen. We were going to eat them but when making some i noticed they were fertile so i had to try. I put 10 in and 8 made it o lock down. So far 1 hatched, 1 Died halfway out of the shell, and the third has externally piped. I don't know about the others 5 yet.

 

[Torch404]

Half way through day 3 of my first hatch...I've checked the temps a bazillion times. Spent two days tweeking it every time I checked and now have things steady where it seems good. Now what to do for the next 18 days? Guess I'll just keep checking on them every second and try my best to keep my hands out.

 

[mymilliefleur]

12 Crested Cream Legbar eggs made it to lockdown today.Only one looked questionable. I'm thinking about removing it. It has a few black looking veins with breaks in them? Does this mean death of the embryo?

Does this look dead? I did not see movement in the egg .

It looks fine to me. I've actually never seen movement in an egg before. I would leave it and just see what happens.

 

[uzisuzuki]

Well, it doesn't look like I'll have Phoenix bantam eggs in time for a March hatch. I'm really disappointed by this but I'm also really glad I went ahead and stuck my own flock's eggs in the incubator instead of waiting. I've only candled one eggs since Friday so I could get a better picture of the developing foetus for my grandparents to see, but so far so good. I'm excited to see what happens next Saturday (hatch day)!

As a side question to anyone with shipped eggs experience: how long does it usually take to ship eggs? I guess I was under the impression that you wouldn't want the eggs to take a week+ to ship due to hatch viability, but maybe I'm wrong?

 

[313759]

It looks fine to me. I've actually never seen movement in an egg before. I would leave it and just see what happens.

They move inside to exercise and increase the growth. It also strengthens their legs and stuffs

 

[StewedMammal]

Have had 2 chicks hatch out so far! One on day 19 (yesterday) and one today (day 20). The other 21 eggs are starting to pip now and tomorrow is their due date!

 

[paris_r]

lockdown was yesterday, today i got my first pip. two more have internal pips. the others still have some significant veining showing. out of 55 eggs set, 9 are in lockdown. i can account for 9 late embryo deaths due to high temp spike of 111F...the rest??? my shipped eggs had low fertility or no fertility.

 

[HerbGir1972]

We've got no earlybitds as of yet, day 19

 

[rainbowchick]

Well, it doesn't look like I'll have Phoenix bantam eggs in time for a March hatch. I'm really disappointed by this but I'm also really glad I went ahead and stuck my own flock's eggs in the incubator instead of waiting. I've only candled one eggs since Friday so I could get a better picture of the developing foetus for my grandparents to see, but so far so good. I'm excited to see what happens next Saturday (hatch day)!

As a side question to anyone with shipped eggs experience: how long does it usually take to ship eggs? I guess I was under the impression that you wouldn't want the eggs to take a week+ to ship due to hatch viability, but maybe I'm wrong?

Are they actually already enroute? Or maybe the seller didn't send them when they said they would/did?

 

[minnehaha]

It looks fine to me. I've actually never seen movement in an egg before. I would leave it and just see what happens.

I'm crossing fingers that it is fine!!! I appreciate your encouragement!

I decided to add it to the lock down. I'm hoping for the best. I saw movement in some eggs, not all, but they could be resting! Thank you!!