My first 100% hatch! Dry incubation success story!

[Paganbird]

What a great story!
Congratulations!!
That pic of the rooster getting a look is GREAT!

 

[OCchickens]

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3 EE & 9 mixed breeds from EE roo.

 

[EAST TEXAROO]

I am having the same result so far by dry incubating. I have hatched 2 batches of 48 eggs with a 100% hatch and only 1 fatality after the hatch. With 100 percent hatches looks like a bigger brooder for the future>

 

[OCchickens]

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Wow! That's impressive!

 

[FenDruadin]

I ADORE that first picture. That's awesome. Crop and post on Flickr or something--what an adorable shot.

Great story about dry incubation. I'm sold, but I have duck eggs, so I'm not sure it would work--the author of the much-cited dry incubation article says he's never tried it with waterfowl.

On the other hand, I kind of want to try welsummers. I love speckled eggs! Is your roo a Welsummer (sorry, I know very little about chicken breeds--lots about duck breeds, though, lol!)?

This terrible addiction--I don't need more birds!!!!!

 

[OCchickens]

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Roo is an Easter Egger.

Thank you for your nice words!

The rooster is actually the chick in my avatar pic. First one I ever hatched.

 

[stethomps]

Wow! Very impressive, I stink so bad at incubating; I think I would faint if I had a 100% hatch.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

I am so afraid to dry hatch. I have some hatching out now, and I have noticed that there are some sticky chicks. I kept the humidity lower this time, but I am thinking it is not low enough.
So do you think the sticky is from the first 18 days at too much humidity or the last 3 days of too much humidity?

 

[ChooksChick]

I had 36 eggs set, 12 of which did not travel via mail.

12 local eggs hatched with a KA-POW! kicking off the bottom shell and zipping around in no time like stealth ninja chicks- 1 hour from pip to presto!

20 shipped eggs pooped-out and didn't make it for one reason or another, while 4 hatched, one with 2 vents- didn't make it long.

These were set together and all grew in the same conditions- it's shipping that kills!!

Anyone in NE Kansas or NW Missouri with Welsummers or Penedesencas?

 

[cw]

i wonder if dry incubation will work with a little giant incubator, in the basement?