March hatch along

[cmonkey4]

I'm setting 6 bantam eggs from Meyer hatchery this Saturday. I saw somewhere that someone's bantam eggs hatched out on day 17-18? Anyone else had this?

 

[johnderosa1]

I have one pip too! This is the part that seems to take forever. Good luck!

My first 1 was just about out when i left for work... No others had pipped yet. I'm a little worried about them drying out too quickly. My fan is pretty strong and with 29 eggs i have opted for ventilation over super high humidity. I moved the eggs back from the air stream to help compensate but the first one looked like it was having a little trouble pushing free from the shell and the membrane looked a little sticky. This egg was in the first row closest to the flow of air from the fan. If i was home i could tweak things a little but wont get back home until 7:00pm or so. Hopefully everything will work out on its own!

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

My first 1 was just about out when i left for work... No others had pipped yet. I'm a little worried about them drying out too quickly. My fan is pretty strong and with 29 eggs i have opted for ventilation over super high humidity. I moved the eggs back from the air stream to help compensate but the first one looked like it was having a little trouble pushing free from the shell and the membrane looked a little sticky. This egg was in the first row closest to the flow of air from the fan. If i was home i could tweak things a little but wont get back home until 7:00pm or so. Hopefully everything will work out on its own!

If the one closest to the fan is zipping, I would think that's a good sign probably? I hope it goes well. I know how stressful it is not being home when they hatch. I finally started timing my hatches to fall on my days off because it drove me nuts to miss it while I was at work.

I have 2 pips now. They're both Jaerhon/ Ameraucana mixes. The eggs are a little smaller, and the white shells are thinner, so I'm not surprised they're hatching first.

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

I'm setting 6 bantam eggs from Meyer hatchery this Saturday. I saw somewhere that someone's bantam eggs hatched out on day 17-18? Anyone else had this?

I've only hatched bantams twice, and both times it happened on day 20. But I have heard of super early hatches. I think a lot of folks with bantams go into lockdown on day 17.

 

[SkylineFarms]

Couldn't stand it, so I candled 6 of my white eggs. I saw movement in all 6. BIG RELIEF! Guess I'll resume my regular turning routine tomorrow and just pretend the power outage never happened.

Great to hear!

Good luck to everyone in lockdown right now! I'm going to be soooooo stressed when I get there with this hatch. I lost 8 out of 26 chicks that never pipped last time around, and I had 1 I had to euthanize with a bad prolapsed navel and 1 that was deformed that died the first night in the brooder. Ended up with 16 out of 26.

As for me, I opened my incubator yesterday and it REEKED!! I found a stinker and threw it off the back porch. YUK! My eggs are on day 7 today. I candled just a few eggs this morning and they looked OK but the flashlight I'm using is very weak. I ordered the 2000 lumen light someone linked here from ebay... it should be here next week. I'll candle when I get it and update with pictures!

 

[johnderosa1]

Had the wife check.... No new pips but the 1st one is completely out and looks good.

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

I'm up to 4 pips. Two of them look like they're trying to start zipping!

 

[johnderosa1]

I'm up to 4 pips. Two of them look like they're trying to start zipping!

Sounds like good progress! Keep us informed .

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

One chick out, with 4 pips! The new chick is a surprisingly gigantic Jaerhon-Ameraucana mix. So cute!

 

[johnderosa1]

One additional pip....