Setting eggs today 4/1/12 Anyone else?

[leirob007]

why are you trying to get it so high? I have too many still borns with humidity up that high.

I am still trying to get my humidity up past 65%, I think I will get a sponge this morning and put it in there.

Congrats to all the new babies out there, I am very excited to hear about them and see them. I still have to wait until Monday for mine.

 

[emtdiv]

why are you trying to get it so high? I have too many still borns with humidity up that high.

It is still hovering around 65, most of the posts I have seen say to get it higher so that it isn't too dry when they hatch.

 

[emtdiv]

I think I have one starting to pip? https://www.backyardchickens.com/image/id/7002607 Is this what it looks like when they start?

Here is another view https://www.backyardchickens.com/image/id/7002612

 

[gwendalynn28]

That looks like a pip! So exciting! Mine are due on Monday but I had a temperature spike today up to 102 degrees. I hope this didn't do them any harm! I've been busy all day outside! My uncle is building me a pen for my young chickens so they will have somewhere to go before they graduate into the big pen with the other adults! Waiting is the hardest part of hatching!

 

[CluckyJay]

Pip-down has begun!!!! This is a bantam RIR x standard pearl-white leghorn. My bantam hen cheated on her little sebright husband LOL.

 

[bloonskiller911]

5 eggs are pipped and now the waiting game begins. good luck all!!

 

[Missymac]

I will be living through you guys over the next few days! More babies pictures please!!!

An a side note, my beautiful beagle is in the very early stages of labor..I have seen her do this for a couple of days, and I have seen her go through all stages in a matter of hours...Time will tell!

 

[PollyC]

I have eggs pipping now, 2 hatched already 39 more to go

 

[emtdiv]

I have another one pipping and it is further along than the one that started this morning. The one from this morning now has long cracks coming out of it, but no real hole yet. The second one has a hole and a big chunk that will fall off with the next big kick.

 

[AinaWGSD]

I thought I had posted since the first one hatched, I must have my threads confused!

Anyway, we're up to 4 lively chicks out of 9 eggs, and one more that has been mostly zipped all day but is slow to actually hatch. I'd be a little more worried except I had one do that last hatch too, it was pipped for the entire day and popped out in the 1/2 hour I wasn't looking. The second one to hatch I was worried might have spraddle leg because when I found it this morning it was laying on it's back mostly dry. I flipped it over (because it was laying on top of the thermometer and I wanted to check the temperature) and within 2 minutes it had managed to flop back onto it's back and it did that all morning. But now it seems to be up and walking around just fine, so maybe I was worried prematurely. I am worried about the 4 eggs that haven't pipped yet. I know it's only day 21 and too early to stress about it, but the inside of the 4 eggs that have hatched already seemed a lot more moist than the inside of the eggs on my last hatch. And there are a lot of blood vessels left on the membranes of the hatched eggs. This morning I could smell the blood in the incubator, although all the eggs that were pipped at that time have hatched except the one that's zipped and I can see it still breathing when I check in on them. I've been having a hard time keeping the humidity up this hatch, it keeps dropping below 60% and has gotten as low as 54%. But in light of the dampness I'm seeing in the hatched eggs, I think I might leave it alone unless it drops below 50%.