Need A Hatch Buddy.. Anyone Setting Today 2/26?

[nhnanna]

I am sorry you lost him/her. Don't beat yourself up it isn't your fault.

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[milakegrl]

Thanks chicky friends! Trying to look forward to the next 4 eggs set to hatch. Tomorrow is day 21 for them....hope things go better this time.

 

[In His Service]

milakegrl

 

[ROCKIN R FARM]

crossing fingers for you

 

[nhnanna]

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[nhnanna]

Ok, totals for this hatch are:

42 eggs set
2 blood rings, 4 clear
36 went into lockdown
1 pipped wrong end and didn't make it
6 were early quitters
29 healthy babies running around the brooder.

Not a bad hatch seeing there are no windows in the incubator to see whats going on.
Next time they will hatch in a 1588 or 1602 so I can watch them hatch.

How is everyone elses hatches going?
Good luck to those still hatching.

I go into lockdown again Thursday with a new batch of eggs.

 

[ROCKIN R FARM]

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My hatch is all done. I had 2 early on that were no good when I candled. so out of the total 38 eggs I got 11.
had to throw 2 out at the beginning they were not fertile at all.
I lost 2 after they were born, looked as though they did not finish absorbing their egg sacks into them. Really looked like it was their intestines were out but that is not what it was. Had 2 like that.
Then one was born splay legged and paralyzed sure was a fighter for awhile was going to see if I could get his legs fixed. When I held him or her up with the legs set right it was trying to walk. Well when I got home Thursday after wrk it had passed away.
I ended up throwing out 27 eggs. They just never did anything. I kept them in a day or 2 longer than they should have been. I am happy with the ones that I did get they are a week and a day old now and few are a week old today. I got me a little silkie in there with them now from a member of my town chicken group off yahoo. He is hanging out with them and they are taking great care of him or her as well. He or she was born the same day as my others.
I have been trying to get some good pics of them but my camera on my phone is not to good. Need to clean the cage out today so hopefully I can get some of them as I put them back into the brooder.
deana

 

[nhnanna]

I am sorry about the ones you lost. I have had many a hatch like that.

It sounds like your humidity was too high.
I finally got a 1588 after waiting 3 years for one. The other one I bought last year works real good but it doesn't have windows for me to see what is going on in there. Since I got that one on Ebay last year I have noticed they have come out with a clear plastic one that you can see everything through.
Atleast you hatch wasn't a total loss. Enjoy the few that did hatch and try again!

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My hatch is all done. I had 2 early on that were no good when I candled. so out of the total 38 eggs I got 11.
had to throw 2 out at the beginning they were not fertile at all.
I lost 2 after they were born, looked as though they did not finish absorbing their egg sacks into them. Really looked like it was their intestines were out but that is not what it was. Had 2 like that.
Then one was born splay legged and paralyzed sure was a fighter for awhile was going to see if I could get his legs fixed. When I held him or her up with the legs set right it was trying to walk. Well when I got home Thursday after wrk it had passed away.
I ended up throwing out 27 eggs. They just never did anything. I kept them in a day or 2 longer than they should have been. I am happy with the ones that I did get they are a week and a day old now and few are a week old today. I got me a little silkie in there with them now from a member of my town chicken group off yahoo. He is hanging out with them and they are taking great care of him or her as well. He or she was born the same day as my others.
I have been trying to get some good pics of them but my camera on my phone is not to good. Need to clean the cage out today so hopefully I can get some of them as I put them back into the brooder.
deana

 

[1Chick Magnet]

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I go into lockdown on thurs too. I have about 30 eggs under 4 hens and 4 eggs left in the bator. I candled all eggs sunday and tossed about 24 clear then loaded the girls up with good eggs from the bator. almost got them all to fit. I will slide the bator babies under someone as soon as they hatch. now I need to reload the bator. I have yet another hen broody as of yesterday. I will load her and the bator at the same time. right now she has 1 wooden egg.

 

[quiltnchik]

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You don't. Honestly, it's a guessing game. If you help too early, they'll die, and if you help too late, they'll die. Sorry I couldn't give you a better answer, but that's just the way it is. Sorry about your chick

If it helps, just keep in mind that the laws of nature are that only the strongest survive. Obviously, this one just wasn't meant to make it