Need some hatching buddies - Hatching May 24-28

[fifelakelooper]

I have read various answers concerning the "hatch" date. I decided to go with the 24 hr. answer because: 1. It made sense to me 2. My egg shipper/breeder does it that way.3. the majority of people I asked did it that way.

I suppose 1 daY won't make a huge difference.

 

[dretd]

Actually both methods--starting to count the day after you set versus they hatch on the same day of the week as you set them are both 21 days and just 2 different ways of counting the same thing.

Take April as an example:

Method 1--If you set them Friday, April 1st, you would skip ahead 3 weeks and look at that Friday, which is April 22nd as your hatch day.
Method 2--If you set them Friday, April 1st, you would start counting 21 days on Saturday April 2nd. That would give you Friday April 22nd as your hatch day (1+21=22, or you can manually count them on your calendar).

Same difference. I think the week counter looks quicker (I don't have to mess up any simple math--which I am very good at doing). It's also easier if you are skipping between months.

 

[lamNervousNellie]

I've got 12 in the bator right now, set to hatch 4/30 (or earlier!).. candled them last night and 10 are looking solid! One is questionable, gonna give it another day or 2 and candle again, and 1 might be a quitter.. Here's to a good hatch for all!!

 

[fifelakelooper]

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[UrbanFarmerGirl]

Thanks! I am excited. That means I should start seeing something about a week from today.

 

[Cynthia12]

oops, and sorry,,,,

 

[BrandiP]

I just candled my second batch of eggs and am a bit disappointed. These are shipped eggs that the seller waited a week to ship, so they're 5 days behind my main batch of eggs. They should be 5 days along, and I'm not seeing much growth in any of them. I do have growth in less than half the eggs. I was really hoping to get a few BC Marans from this batch and only one is showing growth and the egg has a sizable crack. Disappointing.

Has anyone ever hatched out bantams? I have a few in this batch and they are showing growth that is much farther ahead than the other eggs they were set with. I thought I read that bantams can hatch a day early. Anyone have any experience to share?

 

[WriterofWords]

We did a quick candling yesterday and removed 9 eggs from the 'bator. They were clear at 11 days, most of them extremely porous, and some were test eggs from young hens.

Brandi, my bantams do usually hatch a day earlier.

 

[WriterofWords]

On the candling,, I have a candler, but the first I used I made by taping a toilet paper tube to the end of a mag-lite, cutting a piece out of opposite edges of the top for the egg to sit in. It works great and I think on the smaller eggs it works better than the actual candler.

 

[Stevenson]

Well, I dodged a bullet last night. We had a really bad storm move through...they were saying straight line winds as high as 90 miles per hour. I just knew I was going to lose power...but I didn't!!! It ended up not being quite as bad as it was to the west of us!