MAY 2016 "Land of the Free Because of the brave!" Hatch-a-Long Hosted by, Mike & Sally

[HerbGir1972]

Haaaayyyy!!
We've had 30 cooking and we're due on Sunday. We've got some peeping tonight, can't wait to see the early birds.
What we're hatching,
10 lav orp, checking for purity she was in with our EE making beautiful black colored babies.
10 green eggs, we normally get a nice mix of colors.
10 blue eggs from my blue ameraucana gal, hatched all blue from her last hatch, might have a little lav orp mixed in this time.

Just excited, we're selling everything that hatches this month for feed $$ for the summer
Everything I straight run.

 

[weegarden]

I am so excited! I have 6 out so far, out of 27, and they aren't actually due to hatch till tomorrow night!
How long do you usually leave your chicks in the incubator?
I don't want to have to leave them in 24+ hrs but also want to make sure I don't dry out the pipped eggs. (I keep reading if I grab them quickly, wet the sponges again, and close back up that the humidity should jump back up?)
The first hatched chick has now been in there 8-9 hrs and still not dried off....humidity jumped to 75% as the chicks hatch.

I think the trick is to very quickly open it, and if it is a styrobator, don't lift the top off, just crack it enough to slip your hand in and out, and at the same time throw in a warm wet paper towel or sponge, so most of the humidity holds in the lid. I wouldn't do it much though, I would just do it the once, and as quick as possible. Otherwise you will be worrying the whole time you are waiting for more to hatch. It seems to be the later ones that suffer the most it is opened too much or too long. I'm also careful not to bump it or to roll the eggs around when grabbing in. I hope that helps.

 

[weegarden]

Out of my 10 at lockdown, I have 3 hatched rocks, and 2 pipped rocks, plus my very special silkie is pipped. I'm waiting patiently for that one to start zipping.

 

[BrieCheese23]

The chicken eggs are a' rockin. I guess I didn't kill them all Two more quails hatched, bringing our total to 25, though one is weak. Tomorrow is day 18 for them and 21 for the chicks. I can't wait to see what it brings me. I also was checking on the quails in the brooder tonight and noticed that the one who came out of the one green egg is a diluted color. Instead of being black and yellow, he/she is read and yellow. These were supposed to be all jumbo Browns, so I'm pretty excited. Definitely not eating that one.

In other news, I candledsomd of my duck and quail eggs today lost nine quail eggs as clears, but only one button out of fifteen! Several duck eggs got tossed and a couple more chicken eggs for being early quitters. Overall I pulled out twenty from the five bagillion eggs that were there, slipped some more pekin eggs in their place, and tossed the clears over the hill. I'm having way too much fun setting more eggs. Muscovies coming and that may be it for a while...maybe.

 

[Hirad]

Lock down begins tomorrow!
And we have another curve ball to deal with. Even though I've been doing a dry incubation and the humidity has been steady around 35% the air cells don't look large enough. Nothing I can do to fix it either. Hopefully at least one hatches!!

 

[darkbluespace]

Out of my 10 at lockdown, I have 3 hatched rocks, and 2 pipped rocks, plus my very special silkie is pipped. I'm waiting patiently for that one to start zipping.

Go special Silkie!!!

 

[sasafras4u2]

The chicken eggs are a' rockin. I guess I didn't kill them all Two more quails hatched, bringing our total to 25, though one is weak. Tomorrow is day 18 for them and 21 for the chicks. I can't wait to see what it brings me. I also was checking on the quails in the brooder tonight and noticed that the one who came out of the one green egg is a diluted color. Instead of being black and yellow, he/she is read and yellow. These were supposed to be all jumbo Browns, so I'm pretty excited. Definitely not eating that one.

In other news, I candledsomd of my duck and quail eggs today lost nine quail eggs as clears, but only one button out of fifteen! Several duck eggs got tossed and a couple more chicken eggs for being early quitters. Overall I pulled out twenty from the five bagillion eggs that were there, slipped some more pekin eggs in their place, and tossed the clears over the hill. I'm having way too much fun setting more eggs. Muscovies coming and that may be it for a while...maybe.

cute cute cute!

 

[Cynthia12]

I have one lonely egg that goes into lock down tomorrow. My last rooster..wasn't her for long..too much crowing, but I got one of his fertile eggs to go this long. Hope it makes it through lock down.

I am setting some white silkies tonight..and some blue splash silkies tomorrow night.

 

[Cynthia12]

The chicken eggs are a' rockin. I guess I didn't kill them all

Two more quails hatched, bringing our total to 25, though one is weak. Tomorrow is day 18 for them and 21 for the chicks. I can't wait to see what it brings me. I also was checking on the quails in the brooder tonight and noticed that the one who came out of the one green egg is a diluted color. Instead of being black and yellow, he/she is read and yellow. These were supposed to be all jumbo Browns, so I'm pretty excited. Definitely not eating that one.




In other news, I candledsomd of my duck and quail eggs today lost nine quail eggs as clears, but only one button out of fifteen! Several duck eggs got tossed and a couple more chicken eggs for being early quitters. Overall I pulled out twenty from the five bagillion eggs that were there, slipped some more pekin eggs in their place, and tossed the clears over the hill. I'm having way too much fun setting more eggs. Muscovies coming and that may be it for a while...maybe.

Aww, these are so cute. Fast little stinkers aren't they?

 

[sasafras4u2]

Well my first set of littles went out with the big girls today. Ive been putting them in a crate with them for over a week today we bit the bullet and they have all done great all day! Going the coop tonight was alot of fun though they weren't ready for bed... just like kids!