setting eggs tomorrow.... 3-21-12 who wants to join?

[CityChickens2011]

Okay, thanks. I will just leave them alone for now and just keep the humidity up. I also turn the heat up in the house and hopefully that will help.

I have another home made incubator that I have them in the lids of cartons. I thought that may be better than the egg carton when I set up the second bator.

I would just let them alone. Make sure your humidity is up. 97F isn't that bad. It might just take them a little longer to pip and hatch. Personally, I would not have kept mine in the cartons because not all of them pip at the correct end and so those that may be turned around won't have the room to crack and come out because of the carton. I always took mine out of the cartons at lockdown and just laid them in there so they would have the room to pip, zip and hatch. It also gave me more of an opportunity to see what was going on with them.

 

[DirtCreature]

I know what you mean!

This is about as productive as watching grass grow during a drought.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Im seriously going to lose my mind waiting for any little sign of these eggs. darn it... why eggs!? why!? im going outside, and maybe sneak in a cigg.... (shhhh dont tell) hehehehe

Please don't lose your mind because then I will have to drive down there, take those cuties and drive back to Louisiana and care for them until you find your mind again.

 

[DirtCreature]

Please don't lose your mind because then I will have to drive down there, take those cuties and drive back to Louisiana and care for them until you find your mind again.

Well if you do i will house and feed you... LOL

 

[kuntrygirl]

Please don't lose your mind because then I will have to drive down there, take those cuties and drive back to Louisiana and care for them until you find your mind again.

Well if you do i will house and feed you... LOL

Great !!!!!!!!!!

 

[AinaWGSD]

CityChickens, try not to panic! On day 20 I went in to check on the eggs and found that the temperature had dropped to about 95-97 in my incubator and all but one of my eggs have hatched. At the time, i had already pulled a couple of chicks out and put them in the brooder, and found several more chicks that had hatched overnight even with the drop in temp. i think that if you just work on getting the temperature back up and leave them be they should hatch just fine. Another thing to consider, did the temperature drop because of the thermostat in the incubator, or did it drop because of a drop in environmental temperature? I've been lucky with my LG still air sytrofoam incubator I guess, but every time there's been more than a half degree or so variation in temperature it's been because the room temperature has fluctuated several degrees.

KuntryGirl, you're going to have to decide if you're comfortable opening the incubator to pull out the dried chicks while the others are still hatching. If your room humidity is really low, there's a chance you could shrink-wrap any chicks that have pipped or zipped. But a lot of people have not had a problem occasionally opening the incubator to quickly move hatched chicks to the brooder. I opened mine several times during the hatch and just kept a close eye on the humidity to make sure it didn't drop below 60%. If you're worried about humidity dropping too low, you could always get a sprayer bottle of water and spritz the remaining eggs quickly while you are grabbing the hatched chicks.

Sphinx, those are adorable little blue fuzz butts! I know it's hard, but try not to worry about the chicks that have been pipped for a while. I know I've read that it can take a really long time from pip to zip, and again from zip to hatch. The first of my eggs to pip was pipped for nearly a full 24 hours with no progress and then zipped and hatched within an hour and a half. I had another egg zip nearly all the way, the no more progress for almost 10 hours. Poor little thing had been zipped for so long that it was half fluffed by the time it finally managed to hatch!

 

[DirtCreature]

WE. HAVE. A. PIP! Noooo wayyyyy! oh my gosh we are soooooooooo excited!

 

[kuntrygirl]

KuntryGirl, you're going to have to decide if you're comfortable opening the incubator to pull out the dried chicks while the others are still hatching.  If your room humidity is really low, there's a chance you could shrink-wrap any chicks that have pipped or zipped.  But a lot of people have not had a problem occasionally opening the incubator to quickly move hatched chicks to the brooder.  I opened mine several times during the hatch and just kept a close eye on the humidity to make sure it didn't drop below 60%.  If you're worried about humidity dropping too low, you could always get a sprayer bottle of water and spritz the remaining eggs quickly while you are grabbing the hatched chicks.

Great suggestion on the sprayer bottle. I will have one ready. I guess the water should be at room temp for spraying.?

 

[kuntrygirl]

WE. A. PIP! Noooo wayyyyy! oh my gosh we are soooooooooo excited! e
   

Gotta love it!

 

[rgvchicks]

hi there, something similar happened to me 2 hatches ago.....1st day of lockdown and a power outage happened that i later found out had lasted approx 3 hrs.....my temp went down to 94.4 .....i panicked and looked for herlp my making a thread........brahamapapa replied and calmed me down with this reply

"don't panic, by this time in development chicks are generating alot of their own heat. the likelihood is that if you continue on with the hatch as if this had not happened, all will probabally be fine. were they already into lockdown? just keep the humidity up and let the temp recover. at worst they might hatch a little late. BEST OF LUCK, let us know how things went, if you can send me a message in a few days, i would love to hear that all went well. TOM"

and you know what?....everything went well and had my hatch......like it says wait to see if temp recovers and maintain humidity...........good luck......

Help someone please!!! I got up this morning and the temp was down to 97F.

I have my eggs in an egg carton so I can not tell if there is any movement. I do not hear chirping or any thing. And as far as I can tell none of them have pipped!

I am using a homemade still air styrofoam incubator. I put them into lockdown a day early

and was wondering if that mattered.

Should I open it up and feel for movement or try to candle one of them to check?

Please, someone advise me on what I should do.