Ready Set Hatch! Set 3/17 Hatch 4/7 - ready now! Hatch-Along

[hokankai]

Yes- I'm obsessive

I tend to take temps of each egg and map it...throughout the day. I don't have to open the incubator - it's a probe type through a vent. If I had a thermometer with an alarm it would be on #10 all the time. I'm way more stressed than last time, probably because of #10 being in there.
I'm trying to be a little more laid back. I've suspended the temp probe in the air (gasp!) Between the eggs. I took a sample of eggs from each corner, okay I really candled over half the eggs.
All are too dark to see much but that's good. Where I couldn't see movement I could see the little bit of veins. #10 looks good, still moving so slightly smaller. My DD's lone silkie I'm worried a out. The chick is alive and moving but extremely small - like 1/3 of the egg and the saddle shaped air cell looks huge. This is a shipped egg. It's positioned away from the fan so it's not getting more draft than the others, and the fan doesn't blow onto any of them. All other air cells look right in target. I think it's due to the oddly shaped air pocket.
Bama - nice pipping & zipping! Any chicks this morning?

Wow that is a lot of work! Haha

I am definitely more laid back this time as well too. It helps that I am actually making money with these eggs (I charge to hatch) but at the same time it's nerve-wracking because they aren't mine too.

 

[melodie_a]

I am working on my humidity, I am still reading really low but I am hoping it will climb up over the next hour or so. I candled and I think I lost one more over the weekend but three still look ok. I hope they hatch fast because I am going to be a nervous wreck!

 

[Dylon]

Do you guys start lockdown with 3 days left to go or 4?

 

[melodie_a]

I am on day 18 but this is my first time so I am only going by what I have read not any personal experience.

 

[hokankai]

I stopped turning yesterday (Day 16.5) and won't be raising humidity until I have internal pips (probably day 20).

 

[Wrightsx4]

Do you guys start lockdown with 3 days left to go or 4?

I'm only on my second hatch so very minimal experience but most say to start lockdown at the end of day 18, not including the day you set them. I set mine on Sunday morning 3/17 so I'll stop turning mine and turn up humidity tomorrow night 4/4 before I go to bed.

Fyi...my panic over the thermometers is over LOL.

 

[Wrightsx4]

Today my daughter and I got out the brooder box and got it cleaned out - yuck. I had stored it in the rafters of the coop. There was a ton of chicken dust on top of it. Not a good place to store things. So now it's been cleaned and sprayed with disinfectant and reassembled for the weekend Hopefully this hatch will fill it up! Last time my one little hatchling and her 7 mail-order friends could've gotten lost in that big box.
Good luck to all of you starting lockdown!!! Got my fingers crossed for ya!

 

[DURR]

UGH. Time is standing still. Got till friday at 2pm for lockdown.

ALSO! I have a Pumpkin Hulsey pair coming. I'm eggsited!! The guy I got a couple from ended up calling the hubby and saying he'd sell the pair for $300!!! Yay!!!! Their eggs for a dzn normally go for $88. Can't wait!!! I feel like a kid again!!!

 

[Wrightsx4]

How exciting - I don't have and game birds but they sure are beautiful.

 

[Dylon]

This whole hatch is freaking me out. I have been nervous all week. I keep going to the incubator and checking the temp like once or twice an hour .. I just want to crack those little eggs open and get those babies out!!!! :/