The 10th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!!

[jolenesdad]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-sunshine-hosts-bantychooks-and-more.1137467/

Here’s the link!

 

[Peep_Show]

I'm kind of the antithesis of Hatch Worrier. I just realized I should probably do a candling on the latest batch! Happy to report no clears, so 28/28 still riding in the yellow 'bator bus to lockdown.

 

[Pensmaster]

I got shipped eggs yesterday. Is there a thread on hatching shipped eggs?
White laced red Cornish and I want them to hatch LOL
I have an incuveiw with a side turner. Not upright

Congratulations if my incubator wasn’t full I would get some as well. I like hatching any egg upright throughout the entire process.

 

[igorsMistress]

Congratulations if my incubator wasn’t full I would get some as well. I like hatching any egg upright throughout the entire process.

Even after lockdown?

 

[Molpet]

There’s 5,000 of them. ;-) look for sally sunshine’s thread it should be on the first page of the incubation forum. It’s thousands of pages long and has great info linked in the very first post.

Rest your eggs for at least 24 hours, candle them and check the status of the air cells. If theyre solid putting them on their side should be fine, if they aren’t you will need to get a way to keep them upright, at least for the first bit of incubation.

It’s a lot of trial and error because what worked for someone else may not apply to your eggs or your specific climate of incubation.....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-sunshine-hosts-bantychooks-and-more.1137467/

Here’s the link!

Thank you... I have seen that extremely long thread and will reread the first few pages

Congratulations if my incubator wasn’t full I would get some as well. I like hatching any egg upright throughout the entire process.

Thank you
I guess I will experiment

 

[jolenesdad]

Thank you... I have seen that extremely long thread and will reread the first few pages


Thank you
I guess I will experiment

It’s the very first post. Sally sunshine has linked to all the important information of tons of different posts and articles.

Did you take a look at the air cells yet, how do they look?

For my cases after going through all of the info, this is what I did in this hatch...

MOST of mine settled to where I would have been happy having them on their side after 2 days of resting and turning before incubation, and then 3 days of upright NO turning or touching in the incubator in egg cartons (not paper) with the bottoms cut out. My incubator trays are upright, however, and I think is preferred for shipped eggs.

I have (almost certainly) decided to hatch on their side.

Find the user @aart profile and find posts on the incuview I’m pretty sure that is what she uses and is super helpful, and a “guru” user that comes to mind with the incuview.. although I don’t know how much she deals with shipped eggs. I’m just starting to pay attention to incubation posts, sorry if I’m wrong on that.

 

[Rammy]

I hear chirping coming from the duck eggs!

 

[two j farm]

I have a pip!! Day 19

 

[jolenesdad]

I have a pip!! Day 19View attachment 1735949

Yay!!!

 

[Pensmaster]

Even after lockdown?

Yes it keeps the later hatching chicks from being used as bowling pins. I put them in a new egg carton with the bottoms cut out of carton for air flow. Usually lockdown in my styrofoam incubator rather than the Brinsea.