Okay, few more questions....

[lazy gardener]

Be sure your temps have held steady for a while before setting those egglets! I wish you the best this time around!

 

[Cynthia12]

Cynthia, I think you meant to say that still air would be 101. Forced air is 99.5. IMO, humidity would be the same for forced or still air. 30's days 1 - 18, 65 - 75% during lock down.

Yes, that's exactly what I meant...thanks! And Amy is right, brain fried from the hatch a long...will go fix that. In the meantime..I have a pip this morning. Pretty excited about that..everyone seems to be having pips, and chicks early! Due to hatch tomorrow.

 

[Cynthia12]

We're all brainfried from the Easter Hal we don't know what we are writing anymore!! lol

You got that right. I have started to reread what I have written on the Hatch thread, but still don't catch it all. I do a lot of my writing first thing in the morning, which is good, but watch out..night time. lol...reread, reread. I love all of the babies showing up. Saw that you posted one..pretty cute. Can't wait for all of the fuzzy baby butts.

 

[Cynthia12]

Be sure your temps have held steady for a while before setting those egglets! I wish you the best this time around!

True! Temps are the important thing in the very beginning. Steady as can be. Glad that lazy caught my error!
Sure you will do well. Keep studying. You will have a fun time when those babies hatch!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

You got that right. I have started to reread what I have written on the Hatch thread, but still don't catch it all. I do a lot of my writing first thing in the morning, which is good, but watch out..night time. lol...reread, reread. I love all of the babies showing up. Saw that you posted one..pretty cute. Can't wait for all of the fuzzy baby butts.

The funny thing is, I did the exact same thing as you a couple comments before you and was called out on it...lol I'm just the opposite. Mornings-forget it. Night I'm good to go...lol Yeah, I have 8 out now and 8 pipped so far and not quite on day 20 yet. I found I had a big temp difference between the outside edges and center of my bator (despite the fan) and the far corners run hotter too, so I am not surprised I have early hatchers. I was on the last week when I realized how much difference the areas were running.

 

[PattiS72]

Looks like we might be losing one of our hens. I don't know what's wrong with her. Yesterday around 10 am, I noticed her limping. She was eating, but kinda staying to herself. Hubby picked her up, we didn't see blood or an injury of any kind. I was hoping she could sleep it off. She was the same yesterday evening. Today, I found her on the floor of the nesting house. I picked her up and put her on the ground in the coop part and she just laid down. I don't know what could be wrong with her.

 

[lazy gardener]

Sorry.

 

[kyexotics]

When should I start to hear them chirping or whatever you call it?

That's called "peeping" (baby chirps!)as opposed to "pipping"(popping hole in shell)...Within days of being born you can hear them in egg if they're the "noisy" one(s)...Pipping should start between day 18-21 pending type of babies. but in general, that'll work...We put them on light plastic grate in bator so they can roll around if THEY want to and makes it easier for us to turn them...Wife hates how I do it, I'll just tip bator ever so slightly! LOL

 

[PattiS72]

Sorry.

Thank you. Just checked on her and she's still alive, but still where she laid when I got her out of the nest house.

 

[fiset94]

Thank you. Just checked on her and she's still alive, but still where she laid when I got her out of the nest house.

Same happened to us about 3 weeks ago.. I think that she was traumatized... We had a racoon break into the coop.. and even though it has been fortified now... She never recovered... She wasn't hurt... But I believe in shock... And would lay down and just not be interested in eating/drinking...