Set eggs 3/5. Looking for others to hatch with!

[wholewheatchicken]

Buff Orpington eggs.

Those will be nice chickens!
Now that I have figured out my incubator misshaps, I am working on broody hens. Lost another silkie chick to a momma stepping on it this morning. We are now moving all the chicks into the house to a brooder box and the mommas are all going outside for the day. My last barn chick hatched overnight so all the eggs are empty. That makes two chicks killed by hens and one almost killed. My splash hen is acting like she wants to go broody and I will have to break the sad news to her it's not happening.
It's been three days and I have been peeking in a few of the new shipped eggs and they don't look like they are going to develop. I will be so sad if I don't get very much out of them all. I had two sets of black mottled cochin eggs, lavendar Ameraucana eggs and one set of MF cochin eggs. My first batch is still looking great. I have a lot of strong swimmers! It looks like seven more days to lockdown on them. I can't believe it's almost here. It seems like I just put them in the incubator.
Cali Chick, you are one day in to lockdown on the silkies.....how is everything coming along?

 

[CALI CHICK]

I was working on a long PM this morning and then my computer decided to do an auto-restart...

Sorry, I didn't feel like rewriting everything .

Those will be nice chickens!
Now that I have figured out my incubator misshaps, I am working on broody hens. Lost another silkie chick to a momma stepping on it this morning. We are now moving all the chicks into the house to a brooder box and the mommas are all going outside for the day. My last barn chick hatched overnight so all the eggs are empty. That makes two chicks killed by hens and one almost killed. My splash hen is acting like she wants to go broody and I will have to break the sad news to her it's not happening.
It's been three days and I have been peeking in a few of the new shipped eggs and they don't look like they are going to develop. I will be so sad if I don't get very much out of them all. I had two sets of black mottled cochin eggs, lavendar Ameraucana eggs and one set of MF cochin eggs. My first batch is still looking great. I have a lot of strong swimmers! It looks like seven more days to lockdown on them. I can't believe it's almost here. It seems like I just put them in the incubator.
Cali Chick, you are one day in to lockdown on the silkies.....how is everything coming along?

You need to give your Day3/Day4 eggs a little slack! That's still early and they could be developing fine. Don't touch them until the end of Day 5. Or better yet, wait until Day 7.

I've been doing real good about only candling at Day 7, 14 and 18. And each time it is only to mark aircells and quickly check for veins and movement. I've been spoiled with these last 2 groups of local eggs.

Yes, I technically "locked down" last night around 6 pm. But, I'll be honest I've opened the bator up to add water or move stuff around some this morning. (I'll stay out now.) My temperature is about 100.5 at the top of the eggs and the humidity is b/n 65-75%. Hmmmm, do you think that's too high??? Maybe I should remove one of the paper towels I put in the back????? It is going to get really crowded in there when those 13 eggs start hatching and chicks begin moving around. Hopefully they'll start pipping tonight or tomorrow. I will let you know if anything starts happening in my incubator!

 

[mayberrygirl]

Today was my day 7 on this hatch - 24 going strong, and 12 that were clear or blood rings. So in my infinite wisdom... I moved everyone over to the left and together... to add 12 new eggs in *smacks forehead*. I know better then this, I suck at staggering hatches. So tomorrow after my doctors appointment I will be getting the parts to make a hatcher.

 

[CALI CHICK]

Today was my day 7 on this hatch - 24 going strong, and 12 that were clear or blood rings. So in my infinite wisdom... I moved everyone over to the left and together... to add 12 new eggs in *smacks forehead*. I know better then this, I suck at staggering hatches. So tomorrow after my doctors appointment I will be getting the parts to make a hatcher.

Wow! Good luck with your hatching/bator. And,

here's to happy hatching on the 24 developing eggs.

 

[wholewheatchicken]

I was working on a long PM this morning and then my computer decided to do an auto-restart...

Sorry, I didn't feel like rewriting everything .

You need to give your Day3/Day4 eggs a little slack! That's still early and they could be developing fine. Don't touch them until the end of Day 5. Or better yet, wait until Day 7.

I've been doing real good about only candling at Day 7, 14 and 18. And each time it is only to mark aircells and quickly check for veins and movement. I've been spoiled with these last 2 groups of local eggs.

Yes, I technically "locked down" last night around 6 pm. But, I'll be honest I've opened the bator up to add water or move stuff around some this morning. (I'll stay out now.) My temperature is about 100.5 at the top of the eggs and the humidity is b/n 65-75%. Hmmmm, do you think that's too high??? Maybe I should remove one of the paper towels I put in the back????? It is going to get really crowded in there when those 13 eggs start hatching and chicks begin moving around. Hopefully they'll start pipping tonight or tomorrow. I will let you know if anything starts happening in my incubator!

Thanks...I needed that. I just want to know there are babies in there. I keep going over everything I did to get them going and wondering if I messed something up and killed them. I warmed them up in the hatching bator before I transferred them into the regular incubator so I wouldn't have a temperature drop on the eggs that were developing. Maybe I'm just getting out the same eggs that are on top and looking in them over and over. Goodness knows I have so many eggs in there it is hard to tell which ones I get out. One the older set of eggs, if they are alive, I write a big yes on them so I know there was a chick in it!
I will just have to live through you at the moment.
All of my momma hens officially became childless today. Another chick was stepped on this morning and killed, another hen got over to another hen's pen and started attacking her and I had to clean the waterers and feeders out every ten minutes because the hens were scratching litter all over the place. I wasn't a very good broody hen manager and am no longer in the broody hen business.
My last egg hatched overnight and all the chicks are doing great in the brooder boxes!
I ended up total count after barn chicks and incubator chicks, pluses and minuses, 9 Rhode Island Reds and 8 silkies.

 

[Ryan Moorefield]

If the air cell in hatching eggs gets to big will the eggs hatch and can you get the air cell to go away.

 

[mohillbilly]

If the air cell in hatching eggs gets to big will the eggs hatch and can you get the air cell to go away.

yes they can still hatch and no once the air cell is formed it's formed

 

[Ryan Moorefield]

Does it cripple the chance of them hatching at all or will they still be okay

 

[mohillbilly]

depends on the chick

 

[wholewheatchicken]

If the air cell in hatching eggs gets to big will the eggs hatch and can you get the air cell to go away

Do you think yours are too big?