Serama Hatch-A-Long!!

[darkbluespace]

Sorry! I'm a lurker, but got some serama babies this morning and have no one to tell! Haha

We are definitely the folks to tell

Super cute!

 

[darkbluespace]

Congrats on your babies!


My eggs are on lockdown as of this morning. Looking for any hints on what to do (besides sitting on my hands). They are in a Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance with humidity pump. Of the 22 I originally received, 18 developed and 14 have made it to lockdown. Any suggestions on temp and humidity for lockdown? I left the temp at the same it has been set to for incubation (99.7) but bumped the humidity up to 60% from 45% at this time.

I hope to be posting chick pictures very soon!

All sounds good! Can't wait to see them!!!

 

[darkbluespace]

I have a sweet and very tiny frizzle hen named Ava. I found 4 of her eggs yesterday in a funny place and I was so tempted to pop them in the incubator but then I reminded myself about how I have more than enough Serama chicks and I did stop myself.

I had 4 last eggs in the incubator from my three broody hens who stopped sitting after 4 chicks hatched and when those chicks hatched last night and today I remembered that those last eggs were all Ava's! It was so funny because I had kind of forgotten and then yesterday I really wanted to hatch her eggs and then that same day and today I had some hatch. It was like the fastest incubation ever! Almost instant gratification.

I wish they could all go that fast. 3 of them are little chipmunkers.

 

[Audio51]

Quote: Thanks! It's gonna be a loooong 3 days! Do they usually hatch in the same time frames as large fowl?

I have a sweet and very tiny frizzle hen named Ava. I found 4 of her eggs yesterday in a funny place and I was so tempted to pop them in the incubator but then I reminded myself about how I have more than enough Serama chicks and I did stop myself.

I had 4 last eggs in the incubator from my three broody hens who stopped sitting after 4 chicks hatched and when those chicks hatched last night and today I remembered that those last eggs were all Ava's! It was so funny because I had kind of forgotten and then yesterday I really wanted to hatch her eggs and then that same day and today I had some hatch. It was like the fastest incubation ever! Almost instant gratification.

I wish they could all go that fast. 3 of them are little chipmunkers.

I wish mine would be that fast!

 

[darkbluespace]

Thanks! It's gonna be a loooong 3 days! Do they usually hatch in the same time frames as large fowl?

Ummm... they might be a little early. I forget to keep track of mine these days. I have had them take a full 21 days under a broody. When I keep my incubator a bit hot... like 100 to 100.5, then they take 19 to 20 days.

I have a few Silkies I just locked down so I am in the same waiting game!! So excited!

 

[Skink]

I don't always have them hatch early in an incubator, it really seems to depend on where I got the eggs and such. These last two have been day 18 on the dot, and I had another hatch go at day 18, the rest have all been days 20 - 21. I hope you get lots of healthy chicks, and that they don't leave you waiting too long!

I've got one chick zipping right now, and another 3 eggs pipped. One pipped wrong end, but they're still alive and I'm keeping a close eye on them. Once they're done I'm breaking the incubator down and setting another 9 from elsewhere... then no more babies for me for a bit. I gotta choose my pairs and start hatching my own stuff instead! Super happy that I now have the opposite problem of too many hens, if you can even call it that. Gives me some choice on their type, and hopefully I'll be able to rehome some roos in pairs instead of alone.

 

[Audio51]

Quote: I just checked my incubator with a Brinsea SpotCheck (which I have beard is highly accurate) and it looks like my incubator may be running about .4 degrees lower than it shows. That might mean later that normal. When I candled them no one was pushing up yet and I could still see just a bit of veining at the top so I am going to not expect them until at least Friday. Glad to have someone else waiting with me!

I don't always have them hatch early in an incubator, it really seems to depend on where I got the eggs and such. These last two have been day 18 on the dot, and I had another hatch go at day 18, the rest have all been days 20 - 21. I hope you get lots of healthy chicks, and that they don't leave you waiting too long!

I've got one chick zipping right now, and another 3 eggs pipped. One pipped wrong end, but they're still alive and I'm keeping a close eye on them. Once they're done I'm breaking the incubator down and setting another 9 from elsewhere... then no more babies for me for a bit. I gotta choose my pairs and start hatching my own stuff instead! Super happy that I now have the opposite problem of too many hens, if you can even call it that. Gives me some choice on their type, and hopefully I'll be able to rehome some roos in pairs instead of alone.

How exciting! I have hatched tons of large fowl and tons of Coturnix quail but these are my first Seramas. I am so nervous! I have D'Uccles a couple of days behind them, but haven't candled them for a while so don't know what to expect at all from them.

 

[Yayah]

This was just me checking fertility, basically. I couldn't help myself. My hens were born in January, so they've only been laying a few weeks. I gave her 5, and had one not fertile. Of the other 4, all hatched!

 

[DRGLENNON]

This was just me checking fertility, basically. I couldn't help myself. My hens were born in January, so they've only been laying a few weeks. I gave her 5, and had one not fertile. Of the other 4, all hatched!

congratulations!

 

[Skink]

EE! Super cute babies! What lovely little puffs! Is that a white? How lucky!

Three babies are out now, 1 still to go. One of them is the malposition. Their navel is rather rough, and they seemed to have lost a dramatic looking amount of blood in the umbilical cord. Poor baby had a rough time of it... I need to calibrate my incubator, I'm afraid it's starting to run a little hot. Put some antibiotic salve on their navel... fingers crossed they do alright. I haven't lost a chick yet, but that probably means I'm running on borrowed time

It's been over 24 hours since pip, they are exhausted. I checked the other and they still don't seem to have absorbed everything they need to, I hope they pull through too! Still seeing lots of beak movement.

Now that the others are out, it is setting in how teensy the first one to hatch is. Their whole head is teenier than a dime!