October Hatch-A-Long?

[BullChick]

 

[Jules929]

I just put 13 eggs in incubator, fox got 2 hens and my rooster I don't think any of the 8 that hatched last week are rooster so hopefully Mr Marty will live on in this next batch

I am so sorry for your losses.
I hope you get a Mr. Marty, Jr. In this batch!

 

[Ms Biddy]

I just put 13 eggs in incubator, fox got 2 hens and my rooster I don't think any of the 8 that hatched last week are rooster so hopefully Mr Marty will live on in this next batch

I'm sorry for your terrible loss. Best wishes with these eggs.

 

[Ms Biddy]

AT LAST. Word from my hatch manager (teen daughter) is that the first pip was 2 PM on Friday, which was the start of day 22 (!). Two Silver-laced Barnevelders and two Olandsk Dwarfs are out as of this morning (end of Day 23), with another OD zipping . One of the chicks is picking on the others, so she shifted them to the brooder in hopes the new environment, distractions of learning to eat and drink, and more space would shift that behavior. Keeping fingers crossed that there will be more action by the time I'm home tonight. Kudos to my hatch manager

This is wonderful, your girl should be proud!

 

[Ms Biddy]

Houston, we have a problem.

I posted about it in the hatching forum. Basically, I think I have an internal pip on Day 17 and the shadow of the chick in the egg is really small. I can hear it peeping. The other eggs that I checked look pretty normal, not drawn down. Some even look behind.

ETA: I stopped the turner, turned up the humidity and gave it an air hole since I don't know how long it's been like that. Gave it some baby chick sounds too.

 

[TheLittleFarm18]

Thank you everyone

Houston, we have a problem.

I posted about it in the hatching forum. Basically, I think I have an internal pip on Day 17 and the shadow of the chick in the egg is really small. I can hear it peeping. The other eggs that I checked look pretty normal, not drawn down. Some even look behind.
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ETA: I stopped the turner, turned up the humidity and gave it an air hole since I don't know how long it's been like that. Gave it some baby chick sounds too.

Good luck !!!

 

[Ms Biddy]

@TheLittleFarm18 Thank you, there are several drawn down and another that just pipped externally. I'm bummed my hatch is going to be so staggered. These must have been developing before I set them.

 

[ariri30]

Will anyone be hatching eggs in October?

I have a local breeder collecting some Hmong eggs for me this week, I'm collecting a few F1 Olive Egger eggs from my own flock, and then I "accidentally" won some Bresse eggs at auction and I've never incubated shipped eggs before.

So, basically I'm really in for it this time and I need some hatching buddies to chat with.

I’m going to lockdown today. Only one egg survived my high temperature spike. Is a Dutch bantam egg. I hope it will make it. I put more eggs in that are due next week Thursday.

 

[Kat MacK]

So one of our littles got shrink-wrapped in, and we ended up assisting her starting 36 hours after she'd started (she'd zipped about halfway before she got stuck). She got all the way out this morning, but her pooor little toes have been stuck all curled up, so we just now splinted her feet. Those bantam toes are TEENIE TINY. Now she has band-aid snowshoes on.

 

[BullChick]

While there is nothing wrong with splinting to be sure, I find that the feet often straighten on their own by day two. Sometimes three.
I’m only mentioning it, because sometimes it’s just too hard to splint such a tiny foot!