March hatch along

[carcar80]

Thanks! Although.. I can't see air cells on most of them anyway. (Marans)

 

[JadedPhoenix]

Power just came back on, thirty-six hours after it went out. I have the bator on just in case. I'll not get my hopes up. I did take my nephew to TSC and let him get some banties and put them in the brooder. My sister said that he could get some if I'd keep them. By the wing growth, I'd say we have two roos and four hens but we'll see. He is so happy to have them so I'll just throw myself in to taking care of them for him while I wait to get my next set of eggs.

 

[matlock585]

@JadedPhoenix -
I wouldn't give up hope on the eggs. I'll be anxious to hear if some hatch. I also had a power outage from an ice storm. Mine only lasted 7 hours, and the eggs got down to 68 degrees, but I gave it a couple days and candled them all and saw movement in almost every one and they all looked equally developed.

 

[johnderosa1]

Well i have a final tally... 1 BCM chick out of 14 shipped eggs: 7 didn't develop at all , 1 quit early, 2 quit around day 18, 3 fully developed but never pipped and 1 hatched. No clear reason why the late quitters... Air cells looked ok. Maybe too dry at hatch time. My lavender ams suffered the worst. Only 2 hatched with most fully developed. 2 hatched but were pretty sticky. 3 others zipped but died in their shell. 9 fully developed but never pipped. Air cells were too large pointing to excessive moisture loss. These eggs were the smallest of the ones i set. Finally, i got 3 black ameraucanas. I put 4 or 5 into lockdown. I dont remember how far the other one developed. So, very disappointing especially with the lavenders . I could have had a really good hatch if i had not tried going dry. Well i have already collected 9 eggs from that pen and will set whatever i have tomorrow.

 

[subhanalah]

Praying for a better hatch jonderosa!
Thank you for keeping us updated on this hatch. I'm sorry it didn't work out. Winter home-climate is a killer.

 

[johnderosa1]

Praying for a better hatch jonderosa!
Thank you for keeping us updated on this hatch. I'm sorry it didn't work out. Winter home-climate is a killer.

Thanks so much. I am looking forward to hearing how your eggs progress. Please keep us informed.

 

[CraftyChicky]

Yay! Glad to see I have someone to hatch with. I see you are in Georgia, where-bouts? I'm in Williamson, a little town south of Atlanta.

 

[AandAranch]

Well i have a final tally... 1 BCM chick out of 14 shipped eggs: 7 didn't develop at all , 1 quit early, 2 quit around day 18, 3 fully developed but never pipped and 1 hatched. No clear reason why the late quitters... Air cells looked ok. Maybe too dry at hatch time. My lavender ams suffered the worst. Only 2 hatched with most fully developed. 2 hatched but were pretty sticky. 3 others zipped but died in their shell. 9 fully developed but never pipped. Air cells were too large pointing to excessive moisture loss. These eggs were the smallest of the ones i set. Finally, i got 3 black ameraucanas. I put 4 or 5 into lockdown. I dont remember how far the other one developed. So, very disappointing especially with the lavenders . I could have had a really good hatch if i had not tried going dry. Well i have already collected 9 eggs from that pen and will set whatever i have tomorrow.

What was you relative humidity throughout the hatch and during lockdown?

 

[chicken junky]

What was you relative humidity throughout the hatch and during lockdown?

I'm curious as well I tried hatching bcm but none made it I am pretty sure the eggs were treated badly during shipping but just in case would like some info if you don't mind since I just set 18 new bcm eggs from different seller. I did dry incubation for first time since I kept having them die right at lockdown. I had Brahmas hatch exceptionally well and no bcm. So hear I go again alongside some frizzled Mohawked ee and I really want to add all these to my flock. I am running 99.8-100 at 32% humidity how about you?

 

[AandAranch]

I'm trying to keep mine between 99* to 100* with humidity between 30% to 40%. I'm gonna bump it up to 65% to 70% at lockdown. Should I go higher for lockdown?