The 9th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong!

[Hyroler]

Last month had really good luck incubating Feb 1 (10eggs) Feb 5(5 eggs) Feb 10(5eggs) ended up with 19 out of 20 healthy chicks and 1 that didn't hatch was my fault I dropped egg. I'm waiting on 11 more eggs I started Feb 24 .

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

4 babies so far. I went ahead and helped the one that was pipped at the wrong end. Decided to after the first one hatched. The wrong end one had been pipped way before the one that hatched. Every thing was absorbed! It's doing pretty good. Lazy from not hatching on its own, but getting up on those wobbly legs every now and again.

That’s great news Cynthia! Good to hear the wrong end pip has got out ok

 

[Cynthia12]

Last month had really good luck incubating Feb 1 (10eggs) Feb 5(5 eggs) Feb 10(5eggs) ended up with 19 out of 20 healthy chicks and 1 that didn't hatch was my fault I dropped egg. I'm waiting on 11 more eggs I started Feb 24 .View attachment 1290328

Did you build that bator?! Pretty nice!

 

[chickyrookie]

That’s great news Cynthia! Good to hear the wrong end pip has got out ok

As a newbie, what's the wrong end?

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

As a newbie, what's the wrong end?

It means the chick is malpositioned and has pipped at the pointy end of the egg rather than into the air cell that is at the fat end of the egg.

 

[Cynthia12]

As a newbie, what's the wrong end?

Yep, what Yorkshire said. Supposed to pip at the fat end, not the skinny end. Here is a photo of one pipped, at the wrong end. Should pip where thre drawn lines are.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Starting to think I should set early to give time enough to dial in the incubator before bed. Honestly can't remember how long it takes the eggs to get up to temp and correct incubator readings. Probably just anxious being first setting of the year. Guess I'll set at 10 am, grab a few more from pen and weed out the smallest eggs.

Anywho, incubator has been running since yesterday afternoon. Been dialing in a good starting temp, need to up another half degree. Temp swing is 4.3 F with only the turner in there. That will narrow in after setting all these eggs.

 

[Cynthia12]

Sounds like a plan! Happy hatching Egghead!

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[Hyroler]

Did you build that bator?! Pretty nice!

Yes I made incubator out of old toy wooden oven and I use parts from a hotdog rotisserie to make automatic egg Turner.It works really good very high hatch rate but only holds 14 eggs max.