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

[Chaos18]

[COLOR=333333]Tonight's day 7 candling results for are:[/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333]Set # 1: 11 viable, 3 blood rings, 1 highly questionable (will give it more time), and 1 slightly questionable. A few have good veining, but can't see the embryo.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333]Set # 5: 11 viable, 2 blood rings, 1 clear, 2 highly questionable (will give it more time), and 1 slightly questionable. A few have good veining, but can't see the embryo.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=333333]I pulled the 5 blood rings and 1 clear, and put the questionable eggs back in the bators. There are 24 eggs cooking, and all will (most likely) stay in until next candling. I'm almost positive that the 3 highly questionable eggs won't make it, but I'll be extremely happy if I only lose those 3 from here on...      [/COLOR]

Hope you get a good hatch Sir Ur.

 

[jnr005]

I am completely flabbergasted. I counted all my eggs last night, numbered them, candled them, and wrote down notes on all of them. My silkies are only 6 days old so I wanted to check them again today. #66 is missing...as in not there!?!? I had 18 shipped and 1 from a friend. We dropped one on day 2 and tossed it, dropped one on day 4 and waxed it (#71)...so should have had 18 silkie eggs in the bator. Have only 17. I've looked on the floor, around the bator, the dog isn't acting guilty (plus everything was in place in the bator, lid on, other eggs fine). If my dog would have gotten to the bator they would have been massacred (German Shepard) I looked through the trash and threatened the kids I was going to look and they swore up and down they didn't touch them. (I have a 9 and 13 yr old). I'm completely at a loss as to what happened to it...

 

[CherriesBrood]

Really? That's funny, mine seems to run a little but warmer, and my chicks always hatch two – 1 day early. I love that though because it's hard for me to wait for them to hatch.

Interesting!!!! I almost had a horrible catastrophe though. When I went to close the incubator, the chick had it's little head sitting on the cover for the water trough. And, I didn't see the clear plastic part that comes down on top of that. It was on the chick, and luckily one of my students noticed right away. The chick is ok, thank goodness. There are a lot of little areas for chicks to get caught when you open and close that incubator, so I will just take them out as they hatch from now on.

Oh no that's awful! At least you found it in time. I have to agree with you. I have had accidents happen too. One time I almost smooshed a babies head in between the water mechanism like you did, thankfully it started chirping really loud and I immediately lifted it up.

 

[CherriesBrood]

I am completely flabbergasted. I counted all my eggs last night, numbered them, candled them, and wrote down notes on all of them. My silkies are only 6 days old so I wanted to check them again today. #66 is missing...as in not there!?!? I had 18 shipped and 1 from a friend. We dropped one on day 2 and tossed it, dropped one on day 4 and waxed it (#71)...so should have had 18 silkie eggs in the bator. Have only 17. I've looked on the floor, around the bator, the dog isn't acting guilty (plus everything was in place in the bator, lid on, other eggs fine). If my dog would have gotten to the bator they would have been massacred (German Shepard) I looked through the trash and threatened the kids I was going to look and they swore up and down they didn't touch them. (I have a 9 and 13 yr old). I'm completely at a loss as to what happened to it...

That's so weird, maybe it's still in the baton but hiding or something? What day are the eggs on... Could it have hatched? (Silly question)

 

[jnr005]

That's so weird, maybe it's still in the baton but hiding or something? What day are the eggs on... Could it have hatched? (Silly question)

I have a 1588...so even though it's full I pulled all the silkies out and counted them. Only 17 and should have had 18. Luckily I wrote 1-72 on all the eggs as I candled so I know which number is missing. Couldn't have hatched..they are all at day 6-9 in the process. I know it's not in there because all my other eggs are blue, green, copper, and large, lol. I'm really missing an egg. Looked all over the floor and around furniture. All I can wonder is if I somehow left one out last night and the dog could have gotten it that way? But still doesn't make sense because she didn't act guilty about anything. (And trust me, you know when she did something because she sulks and would be the worst poker player ever.) had animal control at the house one day and I knew she had done something before I even saw the card bc she had her head low and was looking at me like "oh crap". (She had gotten out an open door and ran around the neighborhood before coming back home.)

I just don't get it, lol.

 

[Blooie]

<<Ahem>> May I have your attention please? I have two new chicks! Noticed a little hole in the shell of one about 12:30 in the morning. Got all excited, double checked humidity, and finally went to sleep. Woke up at 4:45 to the sound of very demanding cheeping! Little Olive Egger named Yokel (for @LocalYokel just as I promised I would) and it's so doggone strong! Then later on in the morning I noticed a pip in another egg - and we have a little Cream Legbar! And that was another one that hatched fast....nothing at 7 am, pip at 8, and hatched sometime around 10.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

 

[wabbit1964]

<<Ahem>> May I have your attention please? I have two new chicks! Noticed a little hole in the shell of one about 12:30 in the morning. Got all excited, double checked humidity, and finally went to sleep. Woke up at 4:45 to the sound of very demanding cheeping! Little Olive Egger named Yokel (for @LocalYokel just as I promised I would) and it's so doggone strong! Then later on in the morning I noticed a pip in another egg - and we have a little Cream Legbar! And that was another one that hatched fast....nothing at 7 am, pip at 8, and hatched sometime around 10.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

Yaayyy!!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

<<Ahem>>  May I have your attention please?  I have two new chicks!  Noticed a little hole in the shell of one about 12:30 in the morning.  Got all excited, double checked humidity, and finally went to sleep.  Woke up at 4:45 to the sound of very demanding cheeping!  Little Olive Egger named Yokel (for @LocalYokel
 just as I promised I would) and it's so doggone strong!  Then later on in the morning I noticed a pip in another egg - and we have a little Cream Legbar!  And that was another one that hatched fast....nothing at 7 am, pip at 8, and hatched sometime around 10.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

Yayyy!!! Congratulations!!

 

[Chaos18]

<<Ahem>>  May I have your attention please?  I have two new chicks!  Noticed a little hole in the shell of one about 12:30 in the morning.  Got all excited, double checked humidity, and finally went to sleep.  Woke up at 4:45 to the sound of very demanding cheeping!  Little Olive Egger named Yokel (for @LocalYokel
 just as I promised I would) and it's so doggone strong!  Then later on in the morning I noticed a pip in another egg - and we have a little Cream Legbar!  And that was another one that hatched fast....nothing at 7 am, pip at 8, and hatched sometime around 10.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

Congrats on the babies.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

So I'm home and thank goodness no more hatchlings when I got home but now u feel bad for my one lonely chick in the brooder, poor Earl-y, all alone ...