setting eggs for the first time 4/22...anybody want to join me?

[medan]

I am sure its fine to add eggs every day I have 2 bators and i date and add eggs to the one with the turner and then i remove them day 19 to the second bator and let em hatch makes it easy to deal with the humidity at hatch and the odd day you get a break from it you can clean up the hatching brooder and the setting incubator dont get messy

 

[fishermans wife]

I have 2 hatched under one momma, and I can hear at least 2 others under the other momma - but have not seen them. She takes up a double seat she is so big and flat - I may not see them until they are a week old!!! Oh my this is great fun!!!

 

[fishermans wife]

Hey hatching partners...anyone else have babies yet??? I have 4 out of 7 hatched - came 2 days early....hopefully we will get them all to hatch, but I am thrilled so far with what we have for my first time broody moms!

 

[Gypsylion]

I set on the 23rd and I don't have any pips yet, but my temps have been on the low side the whole time so I don't expect them until at least day 21, if not day 22 or 23...

They've been on lockdown since last night, and so far humidity is holding above 60% and temps around 100, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

 

[fishermans wife]

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OK, good luck!!! Wishing good Hatching!!

 

[haTHOR]

i have 8 out of 31, and all but 8 have pips...posted pics on the may hatch along thread.

 

[Gypsylion]

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Thanks.

You too for the remainder of yours!

 

[fishermans wife]

Well, we got 4 out of 7 total. I opened the last 3 eggs tonight - two never developed, and one was fully developed but dead. So, we are going to totally enjoy our 4 babies - if fact I have spent more time with them than anything else, and housework is falling behind! It is so fun to watch momma teach them!

 

[Gypsylion]

YAY! So far I have 2 out of the remaining 16 fully hatched (and ADORABLE), one more that needed some help and is still drying, and nothing at all out of the rest... :-/

I'm hoping that my slighly low avg temps (99-100) throughout the entire hatch just mean that the rest will hatch over the next couple of days, and NOT that they all died sometime since Day 18 when they were all doing great. I used the dry hatch method, so humidity was 35-40% for days 1-18, then 60-70% starting on day 18.

 

[fishermans wife]

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Sending Good wishes for many more hatches for you!!!