Started lockdown tonight 5/6 - anyone else with me?

[thomp119]

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A pip is the first initial hole they make before they "zip" around and peck their way out.


I think my second chick to hatch has a leg defect??? It is still drying in the incubator and I can't see from my angle... We will have to wait and see... Sigh....

 

[Mgui35]

Now Ive got 10 button quail and 1 silkie. The silkies are hatching!!

 

[kec5105]

Looks like I might be getting just the three. My earliest has been in there since Sunday night so I have to take them out. How long do you guys wait for stragglers?

 

[Chickiebabyfluff]

I locked down today at noon. 21 eggs a few barnyard mixes, frizzles, silkies and Japanese buff bantams!!

 

[chadr7850]

Still nothin tonight at 9 is my end of day 21 let's hope I get something

 

[thomp119]

I am debating to float test my last 3... They are 1 1/2 days overdue, thoughts???

 

[kec5105]

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I'd give it til the end of day 2 at least....do you hear any peeping? I just removed my 4 chicks because they were at around 48 hours out of the egg and the other 5 didn't have any pips or movement or anything...I'm a little worried they are dead too but I am going to give them until tomorrow night

 

[chadr7850]

Nothin today but I hear peeping every now and then maybe in the morning once I had one hatch day 25 so be patent

 

[mpguay]

forgive me, but what is 'lockdown'?

I have a broody hen who is in day 20, and I saw a couple eggs that had pips, so I closed her gate (to keep the other girls out). Thats my 'lockdown'.....

 

[thomp119]

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It's when you use an incubator for hatching... Raise the humidity, stop turning the eggs and keep the lid closed until they hatch... Hence the word "lockdown"