March Hatch A Long... anyone with me??

[Coldweatherbirds]

OMG!!!! It's happening fast now! There are 4 out, 2 zipped and pushing, lots pipped, lots with no action. I wonder why the 2 early pippers stalled (died?). I guess I must have been running the incubator too warm. I hear that will cause early action with less than optimal results? Today is only day 20 and they are popping out right now. None of my 3 EE eggs have any action. She lays eggs with super thick shells, so I wasn't sure what would happen. I'll definitely wait and see since it's still really early.

The chickies really do bash the other eggs around, don't they! Jeesh. I am going to have to extricate some chicks before hatching is done if this keeps up. I'll do the steamy bathroom trick when/if I do it. I've got 32 eggs in a little LG still air. 4 chicks plus all the eggs and it is very crowded already. I'm trying to stay downstairs glued to BYC so I leave them alone.

NO INTERFERENCE!

That's what I keep telling myself, but boy, do I want to check those 2 stalled eggs. And I want to look at the one that looks like it has a bloody pip. And I want to check the EEs for signs of life. And I want to hold the fluffy fuzz butt. And there is a piece of shell stuck to the dark chick's head that I want to take off. And there is one hat is pushing but the loose shell is up against the side of the incubator that could use repositioning. And and and and... Must stay here on computer. Must. Not. Go. Back. Upstairs.

 

[jennifersmith326]

I have 28 out of 40 so far.

 

[MMPoultryFarms]

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Yup I hatch about 150 chicks every 5 days

Wow

150 every 5 days sounds dreamy

. You are my chicken hero

LOL I am a poultry farm incase you didnt see in my name. What do I do with chicks. you ask? Well I sell them all over the world

 

[txmel]

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know just how you feel! very exciting and frustrating at the same time.

 

[chickee]

Don't worry, I just hatched shipped eggs with 100% of them hatching and the first two to pip were almost the last to hatch! Don't help them, they have a better chance if you don't

Have fun with your new babies!

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[Chickenrandomness]

down to 4 eggs! all are develpong properly! i candled them and i knew what they were supposed to look like because i did my research first!

btw today is day 14

 

[mhwc56]

i have 58 Coturnix eggs in the bator. Due to hatch the 28th ...

 

[Coldweatherbirds]

Hatch is still happening 24 hours since first pip. I have 6 dry in the brooder, six wet in the incubator, one dead. Nineteen to go (several have pipped several with no action at all).

It is VERY humid in my incubator now. It's reading around 86%. Is this ok? Will the chicks be able to dry with it this humid? I lifted the lid and released some air for a second a couple times, but that only momentarily dropped the humidity. As soon as I closed it the humidity went right back up.

I've got 12 chickies!!!!!!!!

Slimy and Fluffy

 

[CowgirlJules]

I had a hatch this weekend while I was gone, and came home to 14 dry Silver Laced Wyandottes and Blue Laced Red Wyandottes bopping around my incubator.

There were two more pips, but they were really bashing the eggs around, so my son and I steamed up the bathroom with the shower and took the dry chicks out. As of this morning, one of the pips had obviously died, but the other one was still trying. He was in the same position and still chirping when I came home from work today, so I took him out and helped him. He had eggshell glued all over him, and was more than ready to hatch. I soaked it off his wing and head, and he's in the incubator drying. That's one tough little bird!

So he'll make 15, which at 50% is my best hatch rate yet for shipped eggs.

 

[kfchickenlady]

Now THATS the way to hatch, lol, come home to dry chicks in the incubator!