Mid march hatch a long

[yoie]

Candled mine today. So far out of 8 shipped eggs; 4 are developing, 1 can't tell if developing or bloodring, and 3 look clear. But leaving them all in for now, will candle again later to see. For it being my first time and shipped eggs,I think I'm doing good!

 

[mabhera]

I'm dying to candle. My last hatching I candled almost each day. With these I'm stopping myself because I know it's hopeless. They are black cooper marans so I don't think I'll be able to see something. awwwwww.

 

[DraigAthar]

I set 11 eggs on Feb 19th and 13 more Feb 26th, so I've got two hatch days, Mar 11th and Mar 18th. Wish me luck! 7 of the first 13 candled looking good, still too early to see anything in the second batch.

 

[lynn1961]

Hope that everyone gets a good hatch. I have not been able to candle, the welsummer eggs are so dark, they are very hard to candle. I am going to try this weekend while I am off of work.

 

[pppearl]

I am going to join your hatch along too. This is a first hatch for me. I set 12 Blue Laced Red Wyandotte eggs on the Feb 22. I am not going to candle them. I already trying to find more eggs to put in my LG when these come out. Wish you all luck! Pearl

 

[meshellrose]

Candled today and threw out 6 silkie eggs..5 were clear and 1 bloodring so that leaves 8. and 14 of the lakenvelder's were clear

only 1 of them developed.

 

[vanalpaca]

I set 39 Welsummer Eggs today, Saturday, Mar 3 at 4 pm. I will be gone 45 min away at a Fiber Craft Show on Day 21 which should be Mar 24, but I figure I should be home to catch most of the hatch and not opening the cabinet door would be a good thing!!

Now the White Silkie Roo may have got to some of these hens, but there are 3 Wellie roos in with 15 Welsummer Hens and a Welsummer Hen that was a wrong colored Blonde chick that feathered in all like the chest feathers instead of partridge.

I only set the very darkest eggs and the eggs had to have fine spots all over them. The ones with terra cotta clay texture and no spots didn't get set nor di the lighter ones with the really large splotches. Not this hatch anyways.

This is my test hatch for this cabinet style bator, it is smallish and I had 36 rockers last year on day 18 and only 10-12 made it to hatch. So I am hoping for better results this year.

Temp is at 101.5 and I haven't got any humidity going yet. Suggestions? Should I do a 'dry incubation' say around 50-55% then up it to 65% for hatch.

What have you had the BEST RESULTS with?

I know it's a week late, but when I saw Lynn had set Welsummer, I had to join the hatch, too.

Cheers all,
Bonnie in NW Ohio

 

[Egg_newton]

I'm not ready to pitch any just yet but most of my own silkie eggs look clear. I did candle a purchased silkie egg and a favorelle egg and could see them both swimming!

 

[Egg_newton]

I'm really nervous because of poor planning I'm going to be out of town when my babies are due. So, I'm going to have to leave the final days to ky mom who has no chicken experience.

 

[meshellrose]

I'm not ready to pitch any just yet but most of my own silkie eggs look clear. I did candle a purchased silkie egg and a favorelle egg and could see them both swimming!

I didn't want to, but they clearly weren't developing. Mine are on day 10 so there should have been something