May Hatch-a-Long!

[two j farm]

Well it looks like I sill have 9 eggs that are alive. They went in to lock down tonight. Hoping for the best.

 

[CABINHOLLOWNC]

Well it looks like I sill have 9 eggs that are alive. They went in to lock down tonight. Hoping for the best.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you!

 

[yeye5]

Hi yeye5. Thanks for the reply!

I set 18 eggs on May 6th.
Candled at Day 7 and took out 2 clears.
Still have 16 incubating with an expected hatch date of May 27. They all showed some veins at Day 7 with one having a saddled air cell.

One thing I've done different with this hatch that I didn't do with the first one, was I weighed the eggs when they arrived and again at Day 7. I hope charting the weights will help me track development and humidity levels. I think I had my humidity levels too high with the first hatch.

I love that you are hatching with a broody hen. I would love to give that a try, but I don't have a rooster. I suspect one of my Speckled Sussex chicks is a roo so I'm hopeful that next spring I can have a broody hen. (fingers crossed)

~sending good hatch vibes to everyone~

Well a roo would be the #1 move, LOL.
I'm not at all familiar with Speckled Sussex tendencies. Are they a broody breed?

 

[yeye5]

Well it looks like I sill have 9 eggs that are alive. They went in to lock down tonight. Hoping for the best.

My fingers are crossed for your hatch!

 

[yeye5]

Hello everyone!

I hope you don’t mind me jumping in on your hatch along? I was talking with my sister-in-law about getting chickens again and she told me she had a broody hen. I was like SCORE! So, I ordered 3 Partridge Brahma eggs and 3 Oliver Egger eggs from Papa’s Poultry. Well, what I didn’t know was that they send “extras”. I received 11 eggs total 6, PB and 5 OE! What could be wrong with extra eggs you might ask?? The issue with this is that little Pecky can’t sit on more than 5 medium size eggs and a few of the PB’s were larger. So…I did what any expecting chicken mom would do…I whipped out the incubator and put the remaining 6 in on May 12th. Pecky is sitting on 3 PB’s and 2 OE’s, that leaves me with 3 PB’s and 3 OE’s!

Then I was reading about the hatch rate of shipped eggs…and thought…hmm…OK…just get more eggs! Right? So, I ordered 12 Blue Isbar eggs and 12 Easter Egger eggs. They arrived, she sent 14 Isbar and two were badly cracked during shipping so that left me with 12. I received 13 Easter Egger eggs which all arrived in one piece!

I will be setting these in the incubator tonight when I candle my Partridge Brahma eggs. I can’t candle the Olive Eggers…they are too dark…so I’ll have to wait till hatch day to see what happens. It will be like a kid waiting to open presents on Christmas! LOL! I did candle the eggs under Pecky yesterday when she was out taking a break from being a mama! I confirmed that one of the PB’s is developing…the other two looked clear to me, but my sister-in-law thinks differently, no biggie, I didn’t intend to remove them anyway. Again…not able to peek at the OE’s .

When we were done candling the eggs yesterday my sister-in-law said “watch this”. She opened the door and yelled “Pecky, Pecky, your eggs are getting cold, your eggs are getting cold!” That hen came running in, slid sideways hopped into her box and rolled her eggs back under her and looked at us as if to say…” What is so funny?” It was hilarious! I wish she had warned me about what I was going to see! I’d have videoed it! It was too cute!

So, that is my hatching story for now, thanks for reading and I look forward to reading about the hatches you have going on!

Oh…and I did want to thank everyone that shares their vast knowledge, success and failures on here…it is awesome and quite the learning experience!

Happy hatching everyone!

Tina

Oh please, next time you call for Pecky Do get a video of that! I'd love to see!

 

[Jennrz]

AAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!

I woke up this morning and my bator wasn't running! It was running just fine when I checked in it last night before bed. (@10) When I found them this morning all the eggs were cool to the touch and the external thermometer read 63! Futzed with the machine and seems like a wire connection came loose. It's back on now but I have no idea if any of the eggs are still viable.

So sad and frustrated!

 

[generaldsherman]

AAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!

I woke up this morning and my bator wasn't running! It was running just fine when I checked in it last night before bed. (@10) When I found them this morning all the eggs were cool to the touch and the external thermometer read 63! Futzed with the machine and seems like a wire connection came loose. It's back on now but I have no idea if any of the eggs are still viable.

So sad and frustrated!

On no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[10 acre woods]

Two weeks ago. I had three of th eight viable American Gamefowl Bantam eggs in my incubator hatch out early. A train derailment caused an all day power outage while I was at work. Only two more had hatched out by the time I had got home. All five were huddled up trying to stay warm and loudly cheeping their discontent about the situation. Thankfully the neighbor had power and let me put my incubator and brooder in his garage. None of the unhatched eggs made it. On the bright side. All of the 5 that did hatch are growing and doing fine. I have shipped Silkie eggs due to hatch on the 25th. I can't wait to add new colors to our flock.

 

[Jennrz]

Well a roo would be the #1 move, LOL.
I'm not at all familiar with Speckled Sussex tendencies. Are they a broody breed?

I've read that they will go broody and are good mothers. This is the first I've worked with the breed though so I can't say from personal experience just yet.

 

[skod2016]

what a lost for me
out of 14 eggs I got only 4 chicks