The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Peep-Chicken]

I've been candling a few every few days. Haven't gotten a for sure count yet. I feel like I'm more relaxed with this hatch. Things don't have to be as precise and I haven't candled as much. 

Am I the only one who picks a favorite embryo? My current favorite is a Swedish Flower Hen. 

Nope, you aren't. I got several candling pictures of this one labeled egg, and he hatched and is still doing well! So cool to look back at them

 

[Razadia]

Quote:

I'm 25, it's classic to me.

 

[LadyCluck77]

Hatchers log: 22 March
Candled Today, none of the Salmon Faverolles were developing. Tossed all nine of those, but checked them first. None were fertile. Apparently the SF roo is only interested in the leghorns, so I'll have lots of leghorolles, which I am hoping have the look of the Faverolles but lay eggs like leghorns.

All of the EE are developing veins. That rooster could cover twenty hens no problem. I must think of an appropriate name for him.

A few of the shipped eggs have really weird air cells. One definite saddle cell, one that reattached way on the side of the egg rather than where it ought to be. I'm not sure those will hatch. I'll set them in a carton for lockdown as suggested.

 

[bamadude]

Lol. This thread is the true MARCH MADNESS!
Forget college basketball. Fill out your chicken brackets

 

[ladyrsanti]

This might interest some of you:


Source: http://www.avianaquamiser.com/archives/2011/09/

Does egg location in the incubator affect a chick's time of hatch and hatchability? In still air incubators, you'll find relatively wide temperature variations throughout the incubator, but even our top of the line Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance Incubator shows differences in hatch rate related to egg location in the tray. The picture to the right is the summary of my results from two hatches, suggesting that eggs in the center are less likely to hatch than those around the edges, and my notes show that central eggs also tend to hatch later.

The fan in our incubator keeps air moving, so you would think that all of the eggs would be equally warm. However, a reader on our homesteading blog suggested that radiant heat from the central heating element preferentially warms the eggs directly underneath. His hypothesis makes a lot of sense, as does his solution of using some kind of barrier like aluminum foil below the heating unit to block the radiant heat while allowing the fans to continue to circulate warmed air. It looks like I'm going to have to do some experiments with moving thermometers around inside the incubator to find out whether there really are high temperature pockets and how to fix them.




-Kathy

I have found this also. The last hatch I did with my circ. air hova bator had issues with the eggs directly under the fan, quitters at day 18 or failed to hatch, three of them. One of them lost an incredible 21% weight at the day 14 candling, while the eggs around the perimeter were normal. Though I filled my incubator this time, after the 7th day candling and removal of clear eggs, I moved them around to leave the center open.

 

[KimboB13]

I set 15 eggs to hatch. Won't be long.

 

[wicket 07]

I set 15 eggs to hatch. Won't be long.

hello neighbor and welcome

 

[nyseman]

I'm in I have 21 set 2 light Brahmas 2 Welsummers 17 BC Marans

 

[WolfKeeper9584]

2 of my eggs were infertile so I tossed them and the lady we purchased from actually gave us 3 replacements because 2 were infertile!! So nice!!

 

[bantambury]

good news! the shipped eggs I sent 2 weeks before the HAL are growing! my customer said 3/4 are developing....even after being about 3ish weeks old once she put them in!! all the air cells are in tact as well!! im so eggcited! this means I should be great shape for shipping eggs during the summer!