March Hatch-Along Thread- Come Hatch With Us!!!!!

[hokankai]

Just candled and weighed the mixes, cochins and barred rocks...and they all look great! Average weight loss is about 11%, spot on! Two of the cochin eggs have only lost 3% according to my calculations...but I don't think that's right. There's lots of movement and their aircells are perfect...so who knows what's going on there.

Got some GREAT candling videos! Some of the eggs seem to be transparent enough that it feels like you're looking right at the embryo.




This little one has had me worried since the beginning. It's chilled out at the edge of the egg like that since I first day it, and the veins are not as "robust" looking. Also not as much movement, but we'll see what happens. It's still growing and moving though

And this is one of my day 12 sizzles

 

[refamat]

Hi all

Picked up a 9200 on ebay for cheap and it's hold temps good so I loaded up the turner: with these (had to leave a little room for the digital temp/humidity meter)


3/1/2013 17 turkey
3/1/2013 9 Australorp
3/1/2013 3 BCM
3/1/2013 10 ameracuna

got 12 turkey eggs in stasis now in the brinsea and looking for a Monday hatch start. Only ha 4 hatch last set out of 9, and two of those didn't survive but the two that did are thriving.
Also go a nest going in the pasture, at least the hen is laying. I took a plastic drum and cut an 20 inch or so square out and about 10 inches or so up so that there would be protection for any nesting. Lag bolted to a tree in the pasture and one of the turkey hens and my lone buff orph have decided it makes a wonderful nest with the hay I put in there. But! there were more turkey eggs than I can account for from one hem in there so have to think one or more of the other hens is also laying in there.
I would let my other turkey hen brood her own eggs if it wasn't in the goat house and with one of the does about to kid, there can be no way the eggs would survive, so they will be added to the drum nest and we will see who broods them, the buff or the Narragansett hen.
I couldn't tell when I went out to feed this morning how many eggs I had in there as the buff had 2 chicken and 5 turkey eggs covered. I'm sure she's thinking there's no way she passed those big eggs! but, she can cover them and she's going to try.

 

[Jseaborn]

I don't understand what you are saying by keeping the temp lower due to the turner raising the eggs.I would keep a thermometer on the level of the eggs and regulate at 99.5 no matter what.

That is what I have. It has a kick stand so when stood up, its just a tad taller than the eggs. Right now it is 99.7 and 23% humidity

 

[refamat]

I had to remove the digital, just won't fit in the 9200 with the turkey eggs, so now have a lab thermometer and a analog humidity meter in there. The hovabator turner just did fit in the 9200 and the turkey eggs fit, but are smaller eggs than the narragansett is laying.

 

[PugBug]

Pug that happened to me too. Last July when I built my first bator and only wanted to hatch out some chickens for eating eggs. I now have over 100 chickens. At least I have pretty much stopped buying eggs. I have all the breeds I want and the first sets that I hatched are starting to lay eggs.

I remember back in the Jan. hatch along you and Rox told me it would be addicting- ya'll were right! If I win the last set of eggs I'm after then that will be my last eggs to buy (unless something new comes up) because then I will have all the breeds I wanted except for the Isbars- which I have changed my mind on after 2 bad hatches with them.

 

[Brookhavens]

I remember back in the Jan. hatch along you and Rox told me it would be addicting- ya'll were right! If I win the last set of eggs I'm after then that will be my last eggs to buy (unless something new comes up) because then I will have all the breeds I wanted except for the Isbars- which I have changed my mind on after 2 bad hatches with them.

I hear a lot of people are having problems with hatching the Isbar out. I have some coming in Spring from the swap thread.

 

[Brookhavens]

Hi all

Picked up a 9200 on ebay for cheap and it's hold temps good so I loaded up the turner: with these (had to leave a little room for the digital temp/humidity meter)


3/1/2013 17 turkey
3/1/2013 9 Australorp
3/1/2013 3 BCM
3/1/2013 10 ameracuna

got 12 turkey eggs in stasis now in the brinsea and looking for a Monday hatch start. Only ha 4 hatch last set out of 9, and two of those didn't survive but the two that did are thriving.
Also go a nest going in the pasture, at least the hen is laying. I took a plastic drum and cut an 20 inch or so square out and about 10 inches or so up so that there would be protection for any nesting. Lag bolted to a tree in the pasture and one of the turkey hens and my lone buff orph have decided it makes a wonderful nest with the hay I put in there. But! there were more turkey eggs than I can account for from one hem in there so have to think one or more of the other hens is also laying in there.
I would let my other turkey hen brood her own eggs if it wasn't in the goat house and with one of the does about to kid, there can be no way the eggs would survive, so they will be added to the drum nest and we will see who broods them, the buff or the Narragansett hen.
I couldn't tell when I went out to feed this morning how many eggs I had in there as the buff had 2 chicken and 5 turkey eggs covered. I'm sure she's thinking there's no way she passed those big eggs! but, she can cover them and she's going to try.

Nice assortment of eggs. Can't wait to see some turkey baby pics.

 

[PugBug]

Now don't turn them for 5-7 days. This will help the insides to settle even more and give the embryos a chance to get stronger before you start turning.

X2

 

[hokankai]

I actually just let mine rest for 3 days and that was sufficient. My aircells were only a little wobbly though.

 

[PugBug]

I hear a lot of people are having problems with hatching the Isbar out. I have some coming in Spring from the swap thread.

The 1st time I only had 1 develope out of 10- it died right b/f lockdown. 2nd time I hatched 4 chicks, they died within a few hours of hatching- I was just SICK over it! Don't think I'll try then again.
I hope yours do well!