October 2021 Hatch-A-Long

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Another broody join for October! ..due to hatch 17th. I have 12 eggs under Puff but I know half probably aren't fertile so I'll check in a few days.
Smokey is in the far corner and hers should hatch in about a week from now.
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Banty eggs? My Silkie could only just fit 7 full size.
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Hi y’all I thought I’d join this where other cheeps are as excited as I am about hatching! 😆 I have 22 marans (black copper, blue, wheaten, blue wheaten) and 22 Ameraucana on day 8! Last night I candled and I’m by no means an expert. 2 of the ameraucana were yolkers but the rest were viable! The marans were much harder to tell. I saw a few big eyes moving around or a pulsating but some I couldn’t hardly see anything except the air sac. Fingers crossed! I’m thinking about my next hatch being a dry hatch? Humidity has been a struggle.
I thought I was going to go dry this time, but the heat in the incubator was plunging the humidity in there, while the room is like 60% or more.

I've settled with using the reservoir, but first weight check is tomorrow, so will see if they're losing enough/too much etc and adjust accordingly. Some of the air sacks looked a little big when I candler yesterday, so we'll see.
 
Banty eggs? My Silkie could only just fit 7 full size.

I thought I was going to go dry this time, but the heat in the incubator was plunging the humidity in there, while the room is like 60% or more.

I've settled with using the reservoir, but first weight check is tomorrow, so will see if they're losing enough/too much etc and adjust accordingly. Some of the air sacks looked a little big when I candler yesterday, so we'll see.
How do you check the egg weight? like with a gram scale?
 
Yup, kitchen scale with a 'tare' function to exclude the egg crate's weight. Weigh before setting and the should lose around 4% every 6 days - which is the start weight x.04. looking to be around -2g per weigh in for me.
 
Banty eggs? My Silkie could only just fit 7 full size.

I thought I was going to go dry this time, but the heat in the incubator was plunging the humidity in there, while the room is like 60% or more.

I've settled with using the reservoir, but first weight check is tomorrow, so will see if they're losing enough/too much etc and adjust accordingly. Some of the air sacks looked a little big when I candler yesterday, so we'll see.
I think mine are standard size 😄 some hens are smaller then others though so I wouldn't give them more then 8. Puff is bigger and I will be removing probably half of the eggs anyway as most probably aren't fertile... She hasn't got any eggs sticking out so she seems fine with 12.
 

Yup, kitchen scale with a 'tare' function to exclude the egg crate's weight. Weigh before setting and the should lose around 4% every 6 days - which is the start weight x.04. looking to be around -2g per weigh in for me.
Thank you so much for the info!! 😁
 
Great breeds!
I have been dry incubating for about two years and would never go back. I live in Hawaii so the ambient humidity here is high. The humidity usually runs between 35 and 45%, so I do not add any water until I see the first pip, or day 19, which ever comes first.😊
Thank you I can’t wait to see what fun breeding projects we do with these! Makes sense, and it seems so much easier than adding water so often literally 1/4 teaspoon at a time or it spikes to 60%. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I am in the lower 48 in a sort of humid area so I’ll have to experiment in the spring time with what works.
 
My first lot of eggs go into lockdown in a few days. The kids want to call one of the Araucana chicks Zombie if it hatches. There was the start of a blood ring at first early candle so I marked it as a quitter along with some others that looked clear or DIS but as always I left them just in case. Well at my next candle their was still a partial blood ring but a larger and active embryo in that egg (other marked was clear and DIS). The chick has made it almost to lockdown but I can still see where the partial blood ring was and noticed the veining never really wrapped around the egg like all the others, instead it has a empty space on one side. good thing I left it for a little longer otherwise it wouldn't have had a chance at all
 
Candled an egg here at barely day 3 (DAY 2 and 3/4) and I can already see development in all but one of the 15 eggs I set on Saturday. 😁

I added three more the next day so I didn’t check those yet, but this is the earliest I have seen development. Very reassuring and exciting sign!
Wasn’t planning to candle already but out of curiosity I checked one and then had to check the others as well!
Took a photo though it’s not real clear, you can see the beginnings of the “spider veins” up near the air cell. 8CDAA5C2-9D0E-44D5-8C77-C87FBFAA8079.jpeg
 

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