October Hatch-A-Long

[acemario]

Ok thanks. First candle for this hatch, I won't candle till maybe Monday. Thanks!

No problem! It's so tempting to candle every day... Plus when you have guests stop by!

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

Lockdown was today!

 

[Rainier]

Lockdown was today!

 

[Andy19]

Lockdown on was Tuesday 11pm eastern time. Looks like it's a success!! My first hatch ever. 23 couturnix quail eggs that were shipped. I just wish I was home to see them hatch.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

We are holding at 99-100F and 65% humidity. One of the bowls of water has paper towels ... the other has tampons ... LOL. They're absorbant, right? I put the tampon bowl under the little round vent so I can stick a straw through it and refill if necessary. A thick straw from a water bottle fits perfectly.

How long should the water/humidity last before I need to add? Day 21 is Sunday.

 

[Rainier]

We are holding at 99-100F and 65% humidity. One of the bowls of water has paper towels ... the other has tampons ... LOL. They're absorbant, right? I put the tampon bowl under the little round vent so I can stick a straw through it and refill if necessary. A thick straw from a water bottle fits perfectly.

How long should the water/humidity last before I need to add? Day 21 is Sunday.

Actually tampons are genius. They are sterile and like you said super absorbent.

Off topic:
DH has several tampons in our first aid kits. We each have our own little personal one that we carry while hiking or when we are camping. I thought he was nuts. When I renewed my first aid/cpr/AED I brought up my "silly" husband for putting tampons in the first aid kit. The instructor told me that actually it is an excellent idea and she has them in hers. She brought up that they are sterile, compact in size, lightweight, individually sealed, absorbent and in the case of a large wound can be used to pack it to help stop the bleeding. When I got home I asked DH where he learned that trick. He said over in Iraq they all carried them and listed the reasons that the instructor did.

ETA
Sorry got sidetracked on the tampon use. How often you need to add is going to depend on how humid it is where you live. I'm going to guess it's not much in AZ. I live in WA so keeping humidity up shouldn't be a problem and wasn't in my first attempt to hatch. I topped off water through the vent hole (LG 9200 still air) every other day.

 

[Skink]

Today is day 21 for my two serama eggs that made it to lockdown. I am anxious for them to pip, so I have some questions! Do you usually see/hear anything before a pip? Is rocking and rolling something you see at all before that happens, and for about how long? They're still right now, of course, but is there something I'm likely to catch or will my first warning that hatching is under way really be a hole in the egg?

 

[Malibu99]

Day 4 here. I candled this morning and saw a kind of halfmoon-ish shape? I don't know how to describe it but it looks like all the charts I'm seeing. I really just wanted to see if it's fertile LOL

 

[AmericanMom]

Day 14 candle... removed 1 EE egg, quitter... 17 EE eggs and 7 Buff eggs going strong!!!

 

[Dispatch273]

It's hatch day!!!!!! So far there are no pips or any action...but I'm sure there will be soon!