The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

[Yorkshire Coop]

I'd love a cabinet bator, although I could probably use the entire space of my hatch room as an incubator. I currently rub the room at 30c whilst incubating because it's almost more stable than my incubator. The problem is I have trouble dealing with the 50 at a time I get now, because I live in a house in town, not a farm.

My problem also :/ I'm not in town but don't have a farm! I'm sure I could make more room though

Just did my first candling. I have a bunch of blood vessels and there's a little baby moving around in there. This is day 7. I'm super excited to see the little ones when they come.

Sounds like your candling went well, congratulations

 

[twilightrose]

The Easter Egger is from my sister, she drove it to me, so that one I'm not so worried about, it has an extremely defined air cell and was taken good care of before it went into the incubator. The BPB and Jubilee Orp, I ordered from a kind woman in N Florida, she mailed Tuesday morning and they arrived Thursday a.m.. She packed everything nice, lots of paper, and each egg bubble wrapped with air on each side, and double boxed, none broke. I just forgot it was a govt holiday Monday and it delayed my shipment a day, we had a snow storm move in, so my eggs arrived on a morning when the temps went down to 23° and the little eggies were so cold when I unpacked them. (I was planning they'd arrive Wednesday which was an 80° day) I was afraid pourous meant frozen eggs. The shipper recommended I keep humidity low at about 30% for the first 4- 5 days and keep the autoturner off. I have been hand turning the lone Easter egger, and hope it isn't drying out too much. Thank you for giving me hope on the pourous ones, most of them are, and I thought it meant they were already bad since they are speckled and without air cells. And I saw a couple of detached air cells moving around on some. I'm thinking I'll put the autoturner in Tuesday morning before I go to work, that would be 3.5 days without turning and lowered humidity. I'm assuming I will have to boost the humidity up at that point so the porous ones don't dry out like you mentioned. Thank you for the recommendations, shipped eggs make me so nervous, sure hope I'm doing this right. Good to practice before my Easter Hatchalong Silkies arrive.

 

[holm25]

Well somehow my incubator spiked to 133 degrees... The eggs are screwed...

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

The Easter Egger is from my sister, she drove it to me, so that one I'm not so worried about, it has an extremely defined air cell and was taken good care of before it went into the incubator. The BPB and Jubilee Orp, I ordered from a kind woman in N Florida, she mailed Tuesday morning and they arrived Thursday a.m.. She packed everything nice, lots of paper, and each egg bubble wrapped with air on each side, and double boxed, none broke. I just forgot it was a govt holiday Monday and it delayed my shipment a day, we had a snow storm move in, so my eggs arrived on a morning when the temps went down to 23° and the little eggies were so cold when I unpacked them. (I was planning they'd arrive Wednesday which was an 80° day) I was afraid pourous meant frozen eggs. The shipper recommended I keep humidity low at about 30% for the first 4- 5 days and keep the autoturner off. I have been hand turning the lone Easter egger, and hope it isn't drying out too much. Thank you for giving me hope on the pourous ones, most of them are, and I thought it meant they were already bad since they are speckled and without air cells. And I saw a couple of detached air cells moving around on some. I'm thinking I'll put the autoturner in Tuesday morning before I go to work, that would be 3.5 days without turning and lowered humidity. I'm assuming I will have to boost the humidity up at that point so the porous ones don't dry out like you mentioned. Thank you for the recommendations, shipped eggs make me so nervous, sure hope I'm doing this right. Good to practice before my Easter Hatchalong Silkies arrive.

Sounds like you have a good plan there with not turning for a few days at lower humidity will give you an idea on how much moisture they are losing and you can adjust accordingly once you have seen the size of the air cells.
There is a good section in here on shipped eggs ~
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101

Well somehow my incubator spiked to 133 degrees... The eggs are screwed...

Oh no For how long?

 

[holm25]

Sounds like you have a good plan there with not turning for a few days at lower humidity will give you an idea on how much moisture they are losing and you can adjust accordingly once you have seen the size of the air cells.
There is a good section in here on shipped eggs ~
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101
Oh no For how long?

Just a few hours... But all the eggs are dead...

 

[twilightrose]

Just a few hours... But all the eggs are dead...

Oh no! I'm so sorry about your eggs holm25 , I didn't know they could spike that much. what brand incubator?

 

[holm25]

Thank you. It's a farm innovativer

 

[brucifer]

Well somehow my incubator spiked to 133 degrees... The eggs are screwed...

I had that happen to me one time before. In my case is was operator error (me!): I had just finished candling a dozen silkie eggs at day seven, and they were all looking great. However, the room was dark, and I was in a hurry, so when I put the lid back on incubator, I didn't notice that the dangling thermostat probe was left on the outside. When I returned a few of hours later to check on the eggs, the temp on the digital readout had spiked to 122ºF. Both of my backup thermometers also showed 122ºF.

At first I was angry because I thought the incubator had failed. However, on closer inspection, I realized what I had done. My heart sunk, so I know the feeling. What hurt me the most was that my young son who was there with me while we candled the eggs started crying when he found out the chicks had all died.

Like anything else in life, hatching eggs can yield great rewards and a lot of joy, yet at other times there are disappointments and setbacks. I just try to roll with it all. I bask and take in the good times and quickly move past the bad. I hope things go much better for your next hatch.

 

[LaTabaca]

me!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

 Man, I would be in big big trouble if I got a cabinet! 

I love my cabinet, I couldn't live without it now lol. I can easily set 30-40 eggs a week now

Well somehow my incubator spiked to 133 degrees... The eggs are screwed...

Oh no Holm! I'm so sorry