Show off your Old English Game Bantams!!

[BantamTurkey]

pics when you can!

My two OEGB babies!! And I have one trying to hatch now

 

[microchick]

BantamTurkey, they are absolutely too cute to be legal!

They make me want spring.....and it's going to be a long wait.

 

[WVduckchick]

So cute!!!! Making me anxious for my Serama hatch in 2 weeks!

 

[BantamTurkey]

So I ended up with 3/14 babies. I candled them all at a week and had babies in all but one of them. Why didn't they hatch??

 

[WVduckchick]

So I ended up with 3/14 babies. I candled them all at a week and had babies in all but one of them. Why didn't they hatch??

Congrats on the 3, sorry about the others. Way too many possibilities to guess what might have gone wrong. What kind of incubator are you using, and how were your conditions throughout?

 

[BantamTurkey]

Congrats on the 3, sorry about the others. Way too many possibilities to guess what might have gone wrong. What kind of incubator are you using, and how were your conditions throughout?

It's only a hovabator. I think maybe it was the thermometer or maybe the change in the weather. It did drop to 99.6 at one point and I usually keep it a little higher because I it does drop heat fast and I've always been told to run the styrofoam ones a little high. My 3 are still doing good!!

 

[microchick]

My Brinsea Mini Eco holds the temp at 99.5 and drops to 99 at night so that isn't such a big sustained drop on your Hovabator. After all the temp will fluctuate if a hen is brooding the eggs and she gets off the nest.

It would be interesting to know at what stage of development your eggs became non viable. It might help pinpoint what went wrong. It could be anything from a humidity problem to bacterial infection.

Congratulations tho on 3 healthy babies.

We would love to see a picture!

 

[WVduckchick]

Yep, I agree with microchick. Also were they shipped eggs or local? Maybe you had a heat spike that you didn't know about? Did you open the eggs that didn't hatch? It's not always easy to tell what happened, but if they all quit around the same time, it could point to a temp issue. If they all made it close to the end, then how full of fluid were they? If they were very wet, or dry, could have been a humidity issue.

 

[BantamTurkey]

Yep, I agree with microchick. Also were they shipped eggs or local? Maybe you had a heat spike that you didn't know about? Did you open the eggs that didn't hatch? It's not always easy to tell what happened, but if they all quit around the same time, it could point to a temp issue. If they all made it close to the end, then how full of fluid were they? If they were very wet, or dry, could have been a humidity issue.

Going to do an 'egg'opsy on the eggs today. There very well could have been a heat spike. I will let you know what I find. Maybe you guys can help determine why they didn't hatch. They're off my own OEGB hens. They're healthy and everything but it was both of the hens' first clutch. Would that have anything to do with it??
@microchick thanks!! They're so stinkin cute!!

 

[WVduckchick]

Going to do an 'egg'opsy on the eggs today. There very well could have been a heat spike. I will let you know what I find. Maybe you guys can help determine why they didn't hatch. They're off my own OEGB hens. They're healthy and everything but it was both of the hens' first clutch. Would that have anything to do with it??
@microchick thanks!! They're so stinkin cute!!

You mean both girls just started laying recently? I believe the only issues with early eggs are things like shell quality, shape, size, fertility... etc... as long as those things are good, I don't think there is any difference about what's inside the egg. If that makes sense.