"Springing in the Chicks" 2016 April Hatch-a-Long Hosted by Mike & Sally

[snowy Mtns]

Day 20, waiting is so hard!!

 

[butterfliesdoku]

SPOILED "Gooserz" IS THIS ANGEL WING OR JUST GROWING OUT? 7 ducks and a goose [/URL]

 

[BullChick]

May I answer?

I saw in my email that you said you needed coffee last night.

 

[LeroySouthpaw]

I saw in my email that you said you needed coffee last night.

You are SOOO awesome, I'm not even kidding!!!! But you know, I've been wondering. Since you like coffee so much, does this mean you raise Java chickens????? Inquiring minds want to know!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Any ideas why this is happening? One big pip and stuck. Humidity is ~65% Is this from temps or humidity during incubation? The polish (white egg) is looking stuck.



Also have blood in this pip. I was going to ask if I should check on it, but I'm just going to wait.

I always run 70-75 and when chicks start pips/ and during hatching It goes much higher and condensation does get on the cooler lid a TAD.
They look pipped not stuck,

I know you are not hands off, but I do suggest until the majority is hatched you keep it closed and hands off, everytime you open that bator its like opening your front door in Winter, all that cold air runs through and over those eggs and causes all the humidity in their pores to evaporate, and that is where its needed. Sure humidity goes up quickly but it still takes a long time for those pores to absorb that humidity again!

 

[BullChick]

You are SOOO awesome, I'm not even kidding!!!!  But you know, I've been wondering.  Since you like coffee so much, does this mean you raise Java chickens?????  Inquiring minds want to know!!!

No, but perhaps I should!
My original flock of chickens and turkeys all came home on the motorcycle. All of my fish and dogs did too. FYI, fish on a motorcycle is a very odd feeling. I will not tell you how I kept them warm.

 

[BantyChooks]

Ladies and gentlemen, I have an announcement to make:


Jace has hatched 5/6 fertile eggs!!!!!

The 6th one, I am not sure if it was actually fertile or not. Looked clear when candled, with a lot of fluid? Broke it open and it looked like a clear, but it had sort of a murky fluid so I dunno if that was an early quitter.
I'm counting it as such though.... All the rest were obviously clear.
-Banti

 

[Chaos18]

Ladies and gentlemen, I have an announcement to make:


Jace has hatched 5/6 fertile eggs!!!!!

The 6th one, I am not sure if it was actually fertile or not. Looked clear when candled, with a lot of fluid? Broke it open and it looked like a clear, but it had sort of a murky fluid so I dunno if that was an early quitter.

I'm counting it as such though.... All the rest were obviously clear.
-Banti

 

[campingshaws]

Any ideas why this is happening? One big pip and stuck. Humidity is ~65% Is this from temps or humidity during incubation? The polish (white egg) is looking stuck. Also have blood in this pip. I was going to ask if I should check on it, but I'm just going to wait.

I always run 70-75 and when chicks start pips/ and during hatching It goes much higher and condensation does get on the cooler lid a TAD. They look pipped not stuck, I know you are not hands off, but I do suggest until the majority is hatched you keep it closed and hands off, everytime you open that bator its like opening your front door in Winter, all that cold air runs through and over those eggs and causes all the humidity in their pores to evaporate, and that is where its needed. Sure humidity goes up quickly but it still takes a long time for those pores to absorb that humidity again!

How do you get your humidity so high? I can't get mine to hit 70. Should I pipe water into the bottom? I haven't opened the bator at all today! since the sun came up... I think they're malpo. I can see inside the polish egg and it looks shrink wrapped. I missed days 9-16, so I have no idea what temps/humidity were like. My sitter could've opened the bator an hour every day... I have no way to find out. The merle that I helped had a dry brown membrane, so I'm sure it was stuck. Anyway, I have incubation guilt over not treating these babies better. I'm already looking at less than 50% hatch rate.

 

[shahtir101]

Somehow three little polish chicks ended up in my brooder