May Day Hatching Thread

[Justso]

Anyone else want to join me for May 1st expected hatch day?
How's it going for you?
This is the first time in years that I've started a hatch in an incubator; I have a small number of bantam cochin and eggs in a borrowed Hova-Bator. My days have been filled with furiously running up and down the stairs to turn those tiny eggs since I don't have an automatic turner. I can't wait for the Friday candling check to see how things are going. These were shipped eggs.

 

[SharW75]

Also! I didn't think this would happen yet, but the eggs we sent to my nieces' teacher are starting to hatch! They're a few days early, which I find odd, but anyway, they're coming! Here's the first one to hatch--a chick from our white-crested blue Polish hen, Lola, and a white silkie father. I love how she turned out!

 

[gimmie birdies]

I have 8 eggs due on the first of May, and I just bought a doz + extras, eggs on line that are going in today. Below are the eggs I just bought.

The above eggs due the 6th of May.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Mine are technically due April 30th, but will probably spill over to May 1st

 

[JacinLarkwell]

It's the Harris nurture right 360. I have 6 bantams (the middle ones) and 16 standards

 

[Cherterr]

Hi! I've got 4 Silkie eggs in the (hatcher) incubator. I had a heck of a time setting it up due to hegrometor not working and it showed 88% for an entire day!
Ran to the world's tiniest WalMart and took what they had. NOW I'm up to 63% and eggs are supposed to go in this evening.

I am leaving 6 more eggs I set on the 23rd in the GOOD incubator. (Not real fancy either, but so far it has been reliable!)

The eggs are from my own new Silkies (I rooster, 3 hens) that I got a month ago.

Isn't this exciting? I hope I don't have any of those gross 'issuses' I've read about. This is only my second hatching ever. The last one a few years ago, cost me several months of trying to 're wild' "Peepers' to the flock.. She thought I was IT and followed me around the yard, lived in a little pink dog crate with a mirror and Teeny Beanie turkey. (I actually put her with a hen shortly after hatching in the incubator with another chick, and they got into trouble, so I had to rescue 'Peepers') It was fun.

 

[peepinator]

I just saw one egg pipped!!! Way early!! Yay!

 

[peepinator]

Lol....that is the name of my home made bator!

 

[EliseTheFarmKid]

Joining late, but I have around a dozen eggs in the lockdown incubator, due to hatch technically May 2nd-3rd but there’s always the early hatchers lol. Mostly Olive Eggers, with some Speckled Sussexes and the occasional Maran or Turken

 

[peepinator]

That's an incredible hatch rate for shipped eggs!
What are you hatching?

Well, I started with more than 10...18 total. I bought 2 sets of eggs from 2 different sellers on Ebay. 6 bantam-frizzle mix and 12 black copper maran mixes. All 6 bantam eggs were not fertilized. 1st candling showed clear eggs. What a bummer. Then I had 2 quitters out of the 12 other eggs, so 10 went into lock down. Today 4 pipped and one hatched late tonight!! 2 more are zipping right now! Super excited! How are your eggs doing?