Started Today for Easter Chicks - Hatch-Along

[cowsr4eating]

My husband has been hatching a lot of eggs the last couple of months and we have been surprised how long it takes them to hatch. Usually over 2 days. I guess that must be normal from what I've been reading here. He's been trying different things to make it more consistent but so far nothing has changed

 

[frostedcombs]

Thanks. The cool part is watching my 6 year old daughter. We have the incubator set up in the guest room on a night stand. She is pretty much stationed on the bed watching every move.

 

[frostedcombs]

Day 22 ends at 4pm today.
We have 18 hatched so far. The first Friday night, 15 on Saturday and 2 yesterday.
The remaining 14 eggs have not pipped.
Should I still be hopeful that some of the remaining eggs may hatch?

 

[frostedcombs]

No pipping and no hatching.
We moved the chicks to the brooder, removed shells etc.
The incubator is really stinks! I think i is a combo of all the hatching yuck and maybe some bad eggs.
I think I will leave it for another couple days. Day 23 just started.

 

[frostedcombs]

So final count was 19 hatched. 1 had a twisted leg and was culled, another was small and weak and stopped eating. 17 left.
of the remaining 12 eggs that did not hatch, I found about half to be infertile and 4-5 that were fully developed. Odd. Maybe when we had 15 hatch and the humidity shot up to 93% we had too much moisture? Odd.

As soon as I can tell the true marans apart from the crosses I will post fotos.