the Will They Hatch? thread

[Heckel's Hens]

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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!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/70052_0209110751.jpeg

Apparently so! LOL Great work!

 

[Liamm_1]

Heckel's Hens :

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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!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/70052_0209110751.jpeg

Apparently so! LOL Great work!​

Thank you!

 

[BHep]

 

[SteveH]

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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!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/70052_0209110751.jpeg

for Liamm's TJs

 

[X2Farm]

Glad to see some more of yall joinin us! Sorry to hear, at the same time

Didn't mean to abandon the hatch! Got busy with farm stuff, trucks that went to heck and chasin parts for those, flat tires, workin on the bator, gettin cows situated for the impending snow, etc...

But, after some plexiglass, liquid nails, some lumber and hardware cloth... the bator is DONE!

Still gonna hafta modify my hatching tray, it needs to be notched for the turner... and eventually get better egg holders, but I'm happy w how its turned out so far! It was a box with everything already in it, just needed rewiring and some cleaning. Now, its still not the prettiest thing, but its workin!!

Temps aren't stable, but it was either throw the eggs in and pray or toss em... and with 1 egg from my Delaware, I said screw it and threw em in, since my other bators are full....

This is somewhere abouts 7 dozen eggs, mostly F1 Olive Eggers and Polish. A couple from my Speckled Sussex trio, a few from my SLW pair, andsome oddball barnyard mixes (DH said hatch the mixes, we've got more then enough eating eggs

) Heres hoping I get a few chicks outta the batch!!!

Scuse the mess... too cold out to put stuff out in the carport right now!!!

^^^ Fatty the cat just HAD to see what Ma was fussin about

Here's the trays, just 1x2 and hardware cloth. The hatching tray that goes on the bottom is 1x4, but too tall, think I'll hafta notch it down on the back end some

Guess I'll let temps figure out and stabalize overnight, and deal with em in the morning.

 

[Bare bottom farm]

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That is just so darn cute!!!

 

[RareBreedFancier]

Well sad to say for me the answer was 'No'.

My little Brahma appears to have passed soon after lockdown. I'm very disappointed though not entirely surprised given the state of the air cells.

I did manage to get 2 dozen from the roadside stall and there went in soon after I found my little Brahma had passed.

They are due 2nd March. I hope for better results this time.

So sad to have a good first hatch and then nothing my next two.

I hope my weather stays reasonable for this hatch.

 

[X2Farm]

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Thank Yas

Fatty is kinda like my "right hand man" Mr Supervisor

I guess I got lucky! Temps stabalized at 100.2 as of 0630 this morning and still the same a few minutes ago

Think I'll go buy a lotto ticket now

I hope everyone elses hatches are doin alright!!

 

[X2Farm]

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Sorry to hear bout that!!! But Good luck with your next batch!!!

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Well, I'm joining this "Will They Hatch" thread....I posted last week that I lost 18 chickens to something (or someone). Killed them all, took some heads, piled them all in a corner and left them. No signs of the fence being jeapordized, not one thing knocked over or disturbed and nothing ever showed back up even though our trap has been set and waiting for over a week now....anyway, it was very upsetting to me and since I have a roo (he survived the masacre) and had 2 broodys that hatched out 10 chicks in the last 4 months so I knew he was doing his job, after some encouragement here I decided to buy an incubator and try to hatch some of the eggs I have from my girls.

The only incubator I could find around here was the Little Giant Still Air Incubator 9200. I also bought the 6300 Egg Turner (I own three small businesses so I work alot and couldn't commit to that much turning). They didin't have the Air Fan Kit but now I'm wondering if I should buy that and the humidity thing is stressing me because I don't have (but will pick up) a gage for it and once you get the egg turner in there, how the heck do you add more water????? I found an irrigating syringe so I added some....water from our tap well water which after reading this thread I guess I should have used distilled water? The temp settled in after about a day, at 99.5 as it recommends in the incu's directions.

OK, so what I have in there.....three eggs that I found the day I lost all my girls. One Ameraucana (like my roo) and two brown, one that I think belonged to my sexlink and the other one from my barred rock. These were the one's that I noticed recently visiting the hen house during the day. I had four from the day before, add a buff Orpington who had been laying in the tack room in our barn. So those are the most chance at being viable, the day before only being refrigerated for one day and the others for a couple of hours. I took another 15 out of the fridge that range from 3 days to 2 weeks at the oldest (I think) and a variety of the 4 breeds I mentioned, add the chance that the Brama threw one in.

9 are Ameraucanas pure since roo is Ameraucana
13 brown eggs from any of the following breeds, Buff Orpington, Barred Rock, Sexlink, Brahma
The 13 will be just mixes since they were all fertilized by the one Ameraucana Roo but they were my girls and I miss the heck out of them. They all had names given by the grandkids and trying to explain where Mimi's chickens are to two 3 year old and a 5 year old is very difficult without scaring them......just breaks your heart.

After getting the incubator to heat consistant and keeping the eggs out of the fridge for about 2 days I loaded them pointy side down in the egg turner on SuperBowl Sunday. I'm so stressed because the ones that were older were all washed under cold tap water because we sell the eggs. I didn't know that washing them was an issue. The other 7 I just dabbed at with a wet paper towel to get the poop off. I have no idea what the humidity is and then I added tap well water???? I'm in Northern CA where we are experiencing unusually warm and dry weather. Lows in the 40's, high's in the 60's to low 70's. Next week we are expecting it to snow and have wet weather to the end of the month.

Sooooo, sit me in the corner with the "Will They Hatch" crew.......any suggestions are greatly appreciated. (Sorry for the long post, I never learned how to tell the short story)