Newbies 1st Hatch ! ! *Contest Listing updated*

[ChickBond 007]

Woke up to a peeping Wellie chick in the incubator. Just about had to duct-tape my hands behind my back to keep myself from opening the incubator. Maybe the chick will convince the other 6 eggs to pip and zip today. Today is day 21 for my 7 Wellie eggs. They're too dark to candle so I don't know what I've got in there.
I'm so, so glad to actually have a chick hatch. Thought I would be the zero on the board.
Whew...
So dance the chicken dance for me, my BYC friends, because YIPPEE!

 

[Chicky Tocks]

Congrats NewChickMom and my1stchicks!

Today is day 19. My biggest hardship is keeping my ear off the bator glass. Everytime I walk by the bator, I put my ear down listening for peeps now.

 

[juliechick]

Well, our hatch is over. We have 18 little chicks! There were 23 eggs, 3 were clear, two did not hatch. Do I figure my percentage on the viable eggs, or on all the eggs I started with?

 

[ChickBond 007]

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More chicken math:
23 eggs started - 3 clear = 20 eggs. 18 chickies/20 eggs = 90% hatch. That's the largest % so far with a large # of eggs.

 

[juliechick]

Yay! Thanks for the math. I'm sure you've had to explain that before in this thread. I was too lazy to look through all the posts.

Congrats on your chick! Did any more hatch?

 

[MSHEN]

Well, I'm calling the hatch over. It's day 23. There are 9 eggs in the bator out of 29 that did not hatch. It's too quiet in there. I feel like if they were going to hatch, I would see or hear life in them but I don't, so I'm going to call it. I had 1 blood ring when I culled eggs at day 11 and 12 that were clear. I verified non fertility when I opened them after culling. The remaining 29 out of original 42 appeared to have been deveoping, even though 3 had air sacs that ran down the sides and 1 that looks like the air sac was on the wrong end altogether. I suspect this is a problem that is charcteristic of shipped eggs. If I deduct the blood ring, the final tally is 20 chicks from 30 eggs, so my hatch percentage is 67%. I plan to open these eggs later to see at what stage they actually quit on me! I'm sure I'll post the results.

 

[ChickBond 007]

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Don't know yet. Have to see when I get home!

 

[ChickBond 007]

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I have you updated. I know that quiet feeling on day 23. My buff silkies were there. Ugh. I opened them all up and had fully formed yet dead chicks. Don' t know what I did wrong. The one that did pip, Rocky, I helped him out of the shell and he died anyway. I'm never going to "help" again. Mother Nature knows best.
Congratulations on a big hatch of 20 new chicks!

 

[my1stchicks]

Congrats to all, such cute babies!

 

[Chicky Tocks]

There's peeping coming from my eggs!!!!!!