November Hatch-A-Longs 2017

[venymae]

Morning Everyone! Day 20 today for my incubator eggs. Woke up to one already hatched this morning, and another hatched at 8:00. 8 more pipped.

 

[Harmony Fowl]

Ugh, so mad at myself. I was turning eggs this morning and was removing the duck eggs to let them cool outside the incubator while I turned the others when my dry fingers slipped on the dry eggshell and a duck egg went flying into a silkie egg. The smaller egg is cracked very badly and I’ve already tossed it. The duck egg has what may or may not be a crack, it’s hard to tell. I will candle along with the rest tonight. I suspect the duck egg, along with many others, isn’t even fertile. The silkie was tough to read, fertile but maybe already a quitter. Today is only day 9 and those small eggs make such small chicks, it’s hard to tell if what’s there is good or not.

 

[venymae]

Ugh, so mad at myself. I was turning eggs this morning and was removing the duck eggs to let them cool outside the incubator while I turned the others when my dry fingers slipped on the dry eggshell and a duck egg went flying into a silkie egg. The smaller egg is cracked very badly and I’ve already tossed it. The duck egg has what may or may not be a crack, it’s hard to tell. I will candle along with the rest tonight. I suspect the duck egg, along with many others, isn’t even fertile. The silkie was tough to read, fertile but maybe already a quitter. Today is only day 9 and those small eggs make such small chicks, it’s hard to tell if what’s there is good or not.

I've done that too. Surprisingly the severely cracked egg I caused last hatch made it to lockdown, but pipped wrong end and drowned Don't give up on cracked eggs though! I have one zipping right now that cracked when my kiddo was messing with the bator. Since it was the small end of the egg I used ducktape to seal it, though nailpolish and melted wax (crayons, lol) also work to seal a crack. Hope you get more fertile, though light colored duck eggs you should be able to tell by now.

 

[Dimples_vixi]

Two little chicks cheeping away

 

[Harmony Fowl]

I’m going out of town tomorrow, so I candled tonight at day 9.5. The murderous duck egg appears to be fine. I’ve never incubates duck eggs before, but keeping in mind that they take longer than chickens to develop, I think they look fine. One of the bantams had an obvious blood ring. A standard chicken egg (Australorp, though the handwriting is atrocious) was the only really obviously infertile egg. There were a handful that were not as developed as I expected, but I’m still nowhere near as proficient at this as I’d like to be, so I gave them time and put them back. Even taking those into account and accepting that my gut says they aren’t alive, the fertility is much higher than I expected. At least 25 were what I can tell as good, big surprise for so late in the year, especially for the shipped eggs, which are still 12/14 in the incubator. So, still incubating 3 ducks, 3 bantams and 27 Chickens.

 

[Bryam]

I have 18 silkie eggs, should start hatching tomorrow. Them a few more the fool wing week!! Got to get me some sweet showgirls silkie chicks!! Yay!

 

[pertyjewely]

Out of the thirteen KC eggs my asutralorp sat on we had nine hatch one stepped on day 7, three quitters. Out of the nine that hatched it took them three days for all to make it out. Lost one on day two, two on day three. The two smallest left made it about a week. One of when was so backed up it’s whole tummy felt like a rock tried warm soaking and oils to help losen things up but eventually lost the fourth one. We have five happy healthy ducklings left and Sunday they will be two weeks.

 

[lawson1986]

Hey ya'll...I'm joining in... I set 12 silkie eggs in the bator on 11-10, and then set 12 more eggs (4 Dutch bantum, 4 Beilefelder, and 4 svart hona) on the 17th....so technically I'm looking at 12-1 and 12-7 for my hatch days... But I still would like to follow along . I did candle the silkie eggs on day 7, and threw out 4 ( 3 obviously non fertile and 1 blood ring). So 8 silkie eggs left in the bator. I am concerned about all of them though...as hey we're all shipped eggs, and the air sacks all look strange

 

[lawson1986]

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Super happy with the hatch rates, especially considering at my altitude hatching a shipped dark-coated Marans egg has been near impossible. Yay!

Beautiful little fluff balls!!!

 

[Harmony Fowl]

Hurray, a power outage! I will have to have a plan for this in the future. I covered the incubator with a blanket and drove them to a friend’s house at three in the morning with the heat blasting and got them plugged back in within an hour. Hopefully all is well.