September Hatch-A-Long!

[MyNewHobby]

I don't know who's more excited, me or my grandaughter. I have no idea which roo is the father to which egg, so it's a mystery hatch.

Good luck!!

 

[MyNewHobby]

Adult? Phhhtt...I'm a grandma so I don't hafta be an adult. I just get to play with the grandchild, dig in my garden and play with my chickens.

 

[MyNewHobby]

Woohoo, 10 of the 14 eggs have hatched so far, 2 have pipped and 2 are rocking. We are on day 21 today

 

[MyNewHobby]

Day 14 for my Muscovy eggs in the bator....9 remaining of 11 and they are all dancing around beautifully!!!! I'm happy to report that my mama duck has 5 remaining of 6 in her nest and they are all doing well at this time!!! I do have a question....is it normal for all of the veining to appear on 1 side of the egg or could it mean that mama isn't turning them enough?

 

[Angie Poo]

I just finished my first hatch and had similar problems between a power outage and temperature spikes I thought my eggs were goners. It got up to 105 and as low as 95. I was still able to have a 100% hatch rate

Good luck to you! Happy hatching

What a night!  My temps went crazy all of a sudden.  Up to 101.4 and then down to 98.2.  Who knows why...dang LG!  I immediately thought to myself that my babies are all going to die and then I couldnt sleep and was up every 30 mins checking and recording temps.  I decided to research online about the varying temps during incubation.  I found on the Brinsea site that temps between 95-around 101 can still result in good hatches.  Especially in the later half of incubation.  Everyone on here may already know that but i am sooooo hard on myself about this first hatch!  If anyone breathes a sigh of relief from this data then i will feel like it was helpful.  We probably all need to relax!  I get so worked up with every detail and read so much info that i get confused!  

Raise your hand if you are with me!!!

 

[chickydee64]

Such wonderful news to read with my coffee this morning..........................

Congratulations everyone.......................
Our outside temps have gone nuts.....very hot for our area. Affected my LG yesterday raised temp and made the humidity
to go goofy.....................Not much I could do about it. Think they will be OK.............

 

[DeannaA]

I have 2 millefleur d'uccle a day early. No more pips from the ones due tomorrow, But the porcelain silkie pipped, it's day 18. I hav read there are problems with if they hatch early from high temps and late from low temps. I have seen the late problems but not any early problems. Has anyone had problems with their early hatchers?

 

[ThomsonCentennialFarm]

Update on my broody hatch: Yesterday was day 11 and I candled for the first time. There were 17 eggs in the nest, 2 were tiny first layer eggs that snuck in there when I wasn't looking, and weren't developed so I pulled them (determined by candling and confirmed after). Saw 8 or 9 embryos out of the other 15 eggs, but being my first time candling I left all 15 since they were full sized. My husband was out there with me and he got so excited to see the babies all doing their chicken dance inside the shells, and I pointed out the veins and such too. Thanks to everyone who has posted candling pictures, it made it a lot easier.

 

[naightengale]

soo glad i desided to do eggtopsys of the eggs that had shown no signs of life yet of mondays hatch...so my total just went from 23 of 33 to 27 of 33 lol two were pipped when i picked them up and i put them back real quik... then as i was opening the others (i candled before hand and was quite certian nobody was left in there) but 2 of them were shrink wrapped so i opened them up a bit and helped them pip then moisened the membranes and wrapped in wet papertowls and put them back in to fininsh there stuff.
so so far ive had to assist 4 chicks... 3 were shrink wrapped inspite of my keeping the humid up when ever i had to open up the bator maybe i should try upping it more but then im scared theyll all drown... the other was hoplessly lost in the egg lol
next time im definitly going to stear away from a staggard hatch..(which is why i had to open so much) the older chicks were bullying the new borns so i had to keep removing them..1st one hatched sunday looks like last ones will hatch by tomorrow. so a 6 day spread... (and they were all started aug 19,20,and 21)
also hopefully next time i can keep from having temp drops which slowed some down a bit..
but my fuzz butts that have hatched are sooo cute and make me so happy.

 

[naightengale]

my homemade junkubators seem to be giving me a hatch rate of about 95 percent and the temp is set to flux from 100 to 95.
so far of the 33 eggs that put in lock down friday 23 have hatched. yes they are a bit behide but at one point my cats unpluged them so temps went into the 80s and a bulb blew that made the temp drop till we found it... but i think 23 of 33 is pretty dang good for my first hatch in bators that cost $0!!! and they are still hatching so numbers will probly go up.
i think the ones i stored longest are hatching better than the last few i put in as they were layed.

ok so my math skills are bad lol