the Will They Hatch? thread

[Bare bottom farm]

I iwsh you all the best of luck!!

 

[wolftracks]

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Somehow I scrolled past this post and never saw it earlier .
I've seen a chart somewhere here at BYC that shows what size the air cell should be if you're running at the right humidity .

I've looked all over for that chart for 3 months.

Didn't think I'd ever forget where it was.

ROFL

Yeah right!

 

[SteveH]

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Hi Kathy , my name is SteveH and I'm an alc ............................................ wait a minute ........................ wrong forum

Welcome !
What kind of bator did you find ?
Wow , 31 shipped [ and expensive] eggs purchased for your first run ? You're not foolin' around !

 

[SteveH]

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Somehow I scrolled past this post and never saw it earlier .
I've seen a chart somewhere here at BYC that shows what size the air cell should be if you're running at the right humidity .

I've looked all over for that chart for 3 months.

Didn't think I'd ever forget where it was.

ROFL

Yeah right!

I'm not too sure it wasn't posted on Mahonri's NY Hatch ; but nothing I typed in the search bar brought it up

 

[Livinwright Farm]

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[HathawayHens]

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You sound just like me! I just got a used LG bator from a friend, and have bid on some eggs for shipping... if I don't win those, I can get some locally... but I have no idea what I am doing, or "Will They Hatch?"

I will join this thread, even though I am a week or so behind...

 

[SteveH]

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You sound just like me! I just got a used LG bator from a friend, and have bid on some eggs for shipping... if I don't win those, I can get some locally... but I have no idea what I am doing, or "Will They Hatch?"

I will join this thread, even though I am a week or so behind...

You'll sure be welcome .

 

[wolftracks]

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Hi Kathy , my name is SteveH and I'm an alc ............................................ wait a minute ........................ wrong forum

Welcome !
What kind of bator did you find ?
Wow , 31 shipped [ and expensive] eggs purchased for your first run ? You're not foolin' around !

OK I might be the worse person these days for this, but here goes.

Oh wait maybe not!

Thanks to some help getting my mind back after 6 months I had a great hatch of shipped eggs and it was in a used styro bator.

I used to have 70-75% hatches on shipped eggs. The past year the highest has been 50%

My main problem with my hatches is the condition of my eggs that are delivered. I'd say 95% of the eggs I've recieved have been damaged. Broken aircells, scrambled in the shells.

I don't buy cheap eggs either. I've gotten some good deals, but I have spent a small fortune since May and had few hatch.

This last hatch I had some broken cells and I had chicks hatch. Matter of fact it's was the last 2 hatches. I actually had chicks hatch the 3rd, 4th and 5th of this month and have a hatch due the 21st and one the 28th.

I have a bator that needs some work in the garage. My husband built it for me. Then I have 2 that we built from styro coolers. They work great as hatchers.

After my husband died I kept hatching and would get a few chicks or nothing. I had stopped doing some of the things I had done in the past and just forgot. Then I got a humidity tip from Chookschicks and I'm burning her cheat sheet into my brain (what's left of it), so thousands of dollars later, I'm getting hatches and not worried anymore about not doing what I need to do, the way I did it before.

The last two hatches were in LGs. One was used, one my husband bought in April. We got great hatches in it. The used one? Worked great all the way through. I set 41 eggs in it this morning. None were shipped eggs, I paid a lot of 17 of them, but picked them up. I also set 23 from TJ's, so who knows. I had some stacked in the other bator so put one in the last holder. Everything in the Feb 21st bator were hand delivered, 12 were eggs I won at the poultry show, so who knows what they went through before I got them, but I'm thinking they were well handled.

I have a Sportsman sitting here that stopped working the day my husbnad died. I've changed parts and I need to fiddle with it some more, but those cheap, they don't work, they're garbage styros work just fine.

Heres a link to the thread where I asked for help with small aircells. The cheat sheet is there.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5616060#p5616060

 

[SteveH]

My bator has been holding very steady temps over the last few days since the power outage . I usually have the luxury of spending much of the day on here and near the bator for occassional peaks at the temps . Today I have a series of " need-to-be-dones " so won't be hanging around . See ya all later .

 

[Liamm_1]

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I'm in the middle of day 22, and currently have 7 chicks hatched, 5 more pipped and 3 TBD

So yes, they will hatch!