Setting new eggs! They're hatching!! And I needa little help...

[Pineywoods Peepers]

Not bad at all!!

What kind of incubator do you have?

 

[chickensinwasillaAK]

I'm using a Sportsman 1502 from GQF, then on lockdown I move them over to a Sportsman 1550 hatcher. The day after I moved these over to the hatcher I set a little over 200 eggs in the incubator, not all mine, a few friends wanted to drop in some eggs. I can handle 288 without stacking the trays, so I had plenty of room.

 

[Pineywoods Peepers]

200?! Wow! You're gonna have chickies coming out your ears! Sounds like fun!

We had another little guy/gal hatch last night! Yippee!!

How long does it take them to get fluffy? The one who hatched yesterday evening still looks pretty wet.

 

[chickensinwasillaAK]

I left them all in the hatcher overnight but it's forced air so it gives them a blow dry. When I took them out last night, they were all fluffy and active. Opened the 3 eggs that didn't hatch, all were early quitters for whatever reason.

 

[AustinM741]

I ended up with 8 out of 12. Im satisfied with that. One has a messed up leg, but it's managing getting around fairly well. Ive got.it seperated with one other chick for now..

 

[chickensinwasillaAK]

Wonder how Cheri did with her hatch. Sent her a PM and never heard back from her. I was happy with the 21 of 24, now with well over 200 in there, I'll be curious to see how they do.

 

[Chickangel79]

Well my 5 blue jersey giants tried to hatch this morning, one was out and drying and another was dead, squashed in the egg, I think she stood on it. I gave the broody the benefit of the doubt and left the chick and 3 eggs with her. Well, an hour later another egg was crushed but alive, very quickly fired up the r com and took the eggs away. CHecked on her again and the chicks head is slightly bleeding so I took that away too. So far I have 3 chicks and one to hatch. I so prefer incubator hatching.