May Hatch Thread--Fill up those bators n' broodies!

[Mygirls20]

to our thread..............................................
We have a lot of fun.............Your humidity might be a little high for the first 18 days....

I do about 25 to 35..others might be a little different depending on where they live................60 to 65 the last three days.

I am in Oregon ....famous for our rain...................

Please check this out for yourself because to high of humidity can hurt the chicks.................a few days so far will be O.K.
Glad your with us and Good Luck......................

Everyone I have talked to and all the research I have done told me to do 50-60% I will look up more stuff I guess... Even this website says to do 50% under the incubating chick info I live in mountains in Colorado its pretty dry here so I dont know if its different for me or not. Thanks for the info though I will look into it

 

[hokankai]

Day 24 with still 6 eggs left unhatched. Float tested a couple last night and they were still viable. Could use some help on one though. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/780978/help-possible-pip-not-in-air-cell#post_11188631

Did you candle and tap them? That will tell you if they are alive or not. You should see movement, hear peeping/scratching, and see veining. If the shell looks washed out and the shadow isn't moving then the egg is a late quitter.

 

[BearSpringsFarm]

Friday is HATCH DAY!! Okay - just a little excited here. My seven hens have been on doubletime and this has been a busy month - I started with 26 eggs in the bator. All 26 of those look great and should hatch Friday (give or take a day). In the mean time, I decided to add 13 more eggs to the bator on May 9th for a staggered hatch date of May 30th. I just candled the eggs and saw development in all 13 - they are growing!! I also had six eggs that I was saving to put under another hen that showed broody signs and then I guess she changed her mind. Those six went in the bator early yesterday morning (May 13th). Then last night when I went to check on my chickens I had a hen in a nest that was acting questionable - I went back to check on her this morning and she is definately broody - hissing, pecking, and puffing up at any movement. I don't expect her to give up so easily as she is a cochin bantam. So we will see - by tomorrow she may earn herself a half dozen eggs too!! BUSY - BUSY - BUSY!!

 

[chickydee64]

Put my eggs in lockdown this morning....day 19.....long story why I didn't get it dine yesterday.
Anyway....here we gooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I will in fact be NUTS .for the next few days.wear myself out checking the bator.............
Don't get sleep from being up checking humidity every few hours....................
I crack myself up....................

It happens every hatch......................

 

[NinetreesMom]

Just got back from a weekend away after setting my eggs. Looks like the incubator was rock steady while I was gone. All of my eggs were shipped and arrived with detached air cells and pretty scrambled, so I followed some advice and left them big end up without turning for the first 5 days. Yesterday I switched the turner on. Today is day 6, so I am VERY curious/nervous about candling tomorrow. It is my first post-setting candle, as I was out of town for day 3 (and I feel like the less handling the better while the air cells are hopefully re-attaching) so I have no idea if I have anything viable or not. It is killing me to wait until tomorrow, but I will do it

 

[refamat]

Got goose egg activity. Hatch start due date was the 11th, had one start yesterday and one this morning. Was almost ready to resign them come Wed, but will wait out the week to see if any more of the 6 eggs break into the light. I could not see anything with my flashlite, but that might be because I am working with eyes that are getting dim too!

 

[KKs Kandies]

waiting is so very hard! I've decided to err on the side of great caution and give them extra time after one of my last hatches. Don't know why but all but a few popcorned out all at the same time and after waiting three days I was pulling those i thought had quit only to discover three of them pipping...nice surprise

came home yesterday evening to find chicks loose in incubator and more pipping! THIS was a surprise as I had cleaned and set that inc. up for my next hatch in June for my granddaughter's visit so they could be part of it. I'd positioned the hova-bator on the counter but never pluged it in! After calling around today I finally got a confession out of DH, he'd set the eggs for a Mother's day surprise! Dear Husband! Surprise on him too... they waited until Mon. and now he'll need to build another brooder...the current one is full ;o)

Congrats everyone on your hatches and condolences to those who've had losses. Don't lose hope, try, try again.
Best wishes all!

k

 

[el pollo rey]

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I live in the middle of nowhere. haha. 1,5 hours away from Oslo, in the middle of the woods - a village called Veme. All farms and cows. There is a place called Eggen, but it's about a 6hour drive from here so pretty far. Norways greatest soccer coach is from there
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[el pollo rey]

Everyone I have talked to and all the research I have done told me to do 50-60% I will look up more stuff I guess... Even this website says to do 50% under the incubating chick info I live in mountains in Colorado its pretty dry here so I dont know if its different for me or not. Thanks for the info though I will look into it

. Your humidity is based on two things 1 the type of incubator being used still air or forced air 2 the altitude in your given geographic area, humidity must be adjusted for elevation to have the needed results .. Humidity during incubation should be used only as a tool to control the growth of the air cell in the egg there is no number that can be used as a base line the air cell is the only reason humidity is a factor during incubation at first candle you will adjust it accordingly to acquire the needed result for the air cell at the given time of Inspection to large a air cell to dry the incubator to small the air cell to wet the incubator . Simple,, let the egg tell you what humidity you need to use not the instructions in the box,, you need to look up Sally sunshines hatching 101 here on byc it is comprehensive and will explain with graphics the effect humidity plays during incubation,, that being said welcome to the addictive sometimes disappointing but always fullfiling world of hatching ,,,,,,, did that come out right ? Lol

 

[el pollo rey]

Well shipped eggs at BEST, you could expect a 50% hatch. Then you add in the rough handling of our wonderful USPS and that drops the rate, and then the normal infertile egg and you drop your hatch rate down to 10% at best. After these hatches I will never hatch shipped eggs again. I have 24 in the bator (shipped eggs) and at day 4 all I can see is 2 fertile. Very poor quality pourous eggs. It will be a miracle if any of these eggs hatch! I feel your pain!

yup yup if you Realy want them bite the bullet and source them as close as possible and go pick them up