May 2021 Hatch - A - Long

[DallasChickyMomma]

These were taken from a cannibal broody. They are random mixed chicks.

"Nice seating in this joint."

 

[wolfwalker]

Left the house at 4 am and while I was gone, just got home, Miss Hissy Pants last egg hatched. It's now out in the brooder with the others. I'll have to get pictures tomorrow

 

[BullChick]

Many thanks. I'll wait a bit. The membrane that's visible where it's breaking open looks white. One of the eggs was pretty lively before lockdown, and it hasn't even pipped yet.

How’s it going?

 

[Geckolady]

How’s it going?

It made a hole in the egg, and about an hour ago it was really working at it. This is how it looks now. The lines are my penciling where the air cell was. Made a mistake at first, and redid it on the other end, LOL.

 

[BullChick]

I’m really glad to hear that!

 

[Geckolady]

This morning there are two holes and visible movement from inside the egg. It looks like it'll probably hatch today, but there's no sign of a pip from the other 4 eggs. It's Day 23.

 

[BullChick]

It sounds like a temperature issue. Did you calibrate your thermometer and hydrometer? If you have a still air incubator, you also need to move the eggs around the incubator throughout the 21 days. That way, they get evenly toasted.

 

[Geckolady]

It sounds like a temperature issue. Did you calibrate your thermometer and hydrometer? If you have a still air incubator, you also need to move the eggs around the incubator throughout the 21 days. That way, they get evenly toasted.
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I didn't calibrate anything because I don't know how. I'm using a thermometer and hydrometer made for hatching, so since they're made for hatching, I figured they'd be good to go. It is a styrofoam still air incubator. After they'd been in there for a few weeks somebody told me to move the eggs, so I did that one time.

Is it still possible for some of the other eggs to hatch?

There's a little beak working away on that egg.

 

[wolfwalker]

I didn't calibrate anything because I don't know how. I'm using a thermometer and hydrometer made for hatching, so since they're made for hatching, I figured they'd be good to go. It is a styrofoam still air incubator. After they'd been in there for a few weeks somebody told me to move the eggs, so I did that one time.

Is it still possible for some of the other eggs to hatch?

There's a little beak working away on that egg.

The problem with still air incubators is that there are spots inside the incubator that while just a few inches away the temp is around 99.5 they can be down as low as 97. The trick to using a still air incubator is to divide your incubator into imaginary quadrants and move each egg through its rotation cycle so it ends up in a new quadrant every day.

That said, what you will experience is a protracted hatching, meaning the normal 21 to 22 days will be up to 5 days longer.

My suggestion, is after this one finishes zipping and escapes the shell, is to give it a couple of hours to dry and then put it in the brooder and quickly candle the other eggs to see how they are doing. That is the only way to know what is going on.

In the future, you can go to the drug store and buy one of the old non digital rectal thermometers and place it on top of the eggs and you can get a very accurate temperature reading with that. put it right next to, as in touching , your hatching thermometer and you can then tell how accurate it is.

 

[Geckolady]

The problem with still air incubators is that there are spots inside the incubator that while just a few inches away the temp is around 99.5 they can be down as low as 97. The trick to using a still air incubator is to divide your incubator into imaginary quadrants and move each egg through its rotation cycle so it ends up in a new quadrant every day.

That said, what you will experience is a protracted hatching, meaning the normal 21 to 22 days will be up to 5 days longer.

My suggestion, is after this one finishes zipping and escapes the shell, is to give it a couple of hours to dry and then put it in the brooder and quickly candle the other eggs to see how they are doing. That is the only way to know what is going on.

In the future, you can go to the drug store and buy one of the old non digital rectal thermometers and place it on top of the eggs and you can get a very accurate temperature reading with that. put it right next to, as in touching , your hatching thermometer and you can then tell how accurate it is.

So there's still hope. Thank you!!!