September Hatch-a-long!

[PouleChick]

Lock down tomorrow for my last egg in the 'bator. We are going away until Sunday so hoping it will all happen Monday as don't want MIL to have to deal with it before we get back!

 

[aliciaplus3]

here is my latest hatch with one more due Sept 1st and 2 on the 7th... one little EE chick in the middle with 5 turkey siblings

 

[Raptorchick]

Flew home from work yesterday, 6 babies were hatched, I was able to record the last one Had some failings... one pipped, zipped, and quit only two hours later I noticed the quitter at 4hours, it was too late tho. 2 pipped but got no further, (again, tried to help but a couple hours late I think), and three are day 21 in the bator still but no movement/life when I candled. So, 7 serama fluffies it is going into the brooder in a few hours, we almost made it to September lol... I'll should have a few cream legbar midmonth

 

[Shorty22366]

Awwwww sweet.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I had 3 small hatches in August for a total of 10 chicks.
I had a hen sitting on eggs and not covering all of them well till she abandoned them. There were 13 of those I set along with 11 others on the 15th. I didn't expect the sat on eggs to be viable but out of the 24 total eggs, I still have 18 cooking and due exactly 5 days from now. 5 of the eggs I removed were leakers that luckily didn't explode.

 

[TheBeardie]

Guys, I need your help with humidity. My humidity is has been around 30% since this morning, it also hasn't rained today, so it's quite low for Florida. I just put a wet paper towel in the 'bater and I'm waiting a few hours to see what the humidity is. I'm looking for around 40-50%. Im still on my dry run, I'm getting the eggs tomorrow.

In Florida it could rain for days on end or nothing for a few days. So I need a good way to ( relatively) quickly change the humidity, because of the funky Florida weather. I don't think I'll need to raise the humidity very often due to to all of the rain but when I do what should I do? Should I just mist the eggs on non rainy days? Wet Paper towel? A syringe and a aquarium hose in the water trough? Or something else?

Also, I've never had this big of a hatch, at 2 dozen, how should I put them in the incubators automatic tuner? All one one side? Spaced? Or half on one side and half of the other? Thanks in advance for any information given to me!

 

[Pugsabi]

Guys, I need your help with humidity. My humidity is has been around 30% since this morning, it also hasn't rained today, so it's quite low for Florida. I just put a wet paper towel in the 'bater and I'm waiting a few hours to see what the humidity is. I'm looking for around 40-50%. Im still on my dry run, I'm getting the eggs tomorrow.

In Florida it could rain for days on end or nothing for a few days. So I need a good way to ( relatively) quickly change the humidity, because of the funky Florida weather. I don't think I'll need to raise the humidity very often due to to all of the rain but when I do what should I do? Should I just mist the eggs on non rainy days? Wet Paper towel? A syringe and a aquarium hose in the water trough? Or something else?

Also, I've never had this big of a hatch, at 2 dozen, how should I put them in the incubators automatic tuner? All one one side? Spaced? Or half on one side and half of the other? Thanks in advance for any information given to me!

A damp sponge or paper towel should work to raise humidity. A dish of uncooked rice can help lower it. Do you know in you have cooler spots in your incubator? Spacing in the turner doesn't matter too much but I would keep them fairly close together. Otherwise I would rotate the eggs to different spots in the incubator to make sure I limit the chance of a staggered hatch. Happy hatching!

 

[Pugsabi]

Personally I wouldn't mist the eggs because that can actually pull the moisture out of the shell due to osmosis.

 

[Raptorchick]

I have a problem....
My seramas just hatched, so the five eggs left in my 40 egg bator looked very lonely...... plus the air cells are wrecked, idk if they will make it to hatch, doing my best for em tho...sooo
I ordered a "potluck" assortment of eggs (I couldn't make up my mind on one single breed ) They arrived today, I'm already super stoked but had to promise my boyfriend that this really is my last hatch lol... (immediately after he mentioned how much he loves silkies, which we don't have yet....somebody stop me !!)
Tomorrow I'm setting four flower hens, four barbezieux, three golden spitzhauben, three ayam cemani, and four more cream legbar ... I've gone chicken-crazy, I just hope my math holds up!
Here's pics of my serama tweeters all fluffed out

 

[Shorty22366]

Not quite September but my Betty hatched 10. 4 black 4 gray and 2 striped. And 5 more to hatch. Pipped.View attachment 1516976 View attachment 1516969