Tis Time for a March 2020 Hatch-a-long!

[CluckNDoodle]

The Silkies are coming along nicely! Only 2 left to hatch out of 11! The first Marans finally hatched (slow pokes!) and it's a splash!

 

[AusHen]

The Silkies are coming along nicely! Only 2 left to hatch out of 11! The first Marans finally hatched (slow pokes!) and it's a splash!

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congrats, so cute! I MUST try Marans again next chicken hatch I do

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

The Silkies are coming along nicely! Only 2 left to hatch out of 11! The first Marans finally hatched (slow pokes!) and it's a splash!

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Oh yay!!! A Splash!! My Splash Marans just started laying yesterday and her egg is beautiful! It matched my shirt lol

 

[baby-blue]

Just as I was about to post, I was watching my little zipper and he hatched right out! And man, he is one talkative little dude! The other pipped babies are all rocking their shells and pecking away at their pips. We have 7 pipped, two that look like they’re just starting to zip. The one that hatched last night is up and running in the brooder with some buddies!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

All of the remaining eggs are pipped!

 

[gmjarvi]

All of the remaining eggs are pipped!

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So excited you are having a great hatch!

 

[gimmie birdies]

These are 11 and 12 of my hatch, they are from a barnyard mix from a neighbor, one white egg, (the dry chick) and a blue egg (the wet chick), I think the white egg may be from a spitzenhauben. The dad's may be blue eggers.

 

[Phillyndilly]

Most of the people in this group have told everyone that they need to figure out their own humidity. No one pressured anyone to do dry hatch, I just want to make that clear. everyone in here advises people to be familiar with their incubators and to know when to add water or not. There is never a twisting of arms telling people they need to dry hatch...

I would like to see pictures of the chicks in the eggs to see if it was actually shrink wrapping. sometimes chicks just pass away in the egg and it has nothing to do with shrink wrapping or not usually most of the time it has to do with the breeding stock.

I'm sorry you had to deal with this

Hatching chicks is never easy and it's never a complete happy moment because we all experience losses. There is never a 100% hatch guarantee and usually anything over 60% is considered a good hatch.

Again sorry you had to deal with losses

There was no arm twisting but there was someone with no knowledge coming for help being advised. Not once did anyone give advice saying “ if you’re a first timer maybe don’t do a dry hatch it is difficult.” I would like to make that clear. All of the responses encouraged a dry hatch I didn’t pull it out of thin air. The whole reason I even discovered a dry hatch was this forum I had no idea what that even was.
That being said I don’t know exactly where all the messages were nor am I trying to accuse and find them. I’m just trying to say -for any new people who will be looking -the words I wish I’ve heard which are a dry hatch is difficult and may not be the best approach the first time around. Which now has been said by a few people including yourself, thankfully. And it was fully my decision of course no one made me.

I’ve attached pictures, I also did make a thread. Then membrane was extremely tough and hard for me to tear and I didn’t take the chicks out but I did tear one membrane as I said and the chick was very sticky not wet. I’m not sure what that means.
Thank you for your kind words. It was very hard especially seeing so many fully formed chicks dead.

I know every time I speak about dry hatching I tell people not to do it unless they are familiar with their incubators and their climate. You do not want to be a first-timer doing a dry hatch or inexperienced with what the air cells should look like.

Thank you yes. I feel like for me it’s better to try adding water and going a more traditional route until I gain experience.

 

[Mylied]

There was no arm twisting but there was someone with no knowledge coming for help being advised. Not once did anyone give advice saying “ if you’re a first timer maybe don’t do a dry hatch it is difficult.” I would like to make that clear. All of the responses encouraged a dry hatch I didn’t pull it out of thin air. The whole reason I even discovered a dry hatch was this forum I had no idea what that even was.
That being said I don’t know exactly where all the messages were nor am I trying to accuse and find them. I’m just trying to say -for any new people who will be looking -the words I wish I’ve heard which are a dry hatch is difficult and may not be the best approach the first time around. Which now has been said by a few people including yourself, thankfully. And it was fully my decision of course no one made me.

I’ve attached pictures, I also did make a thread. Then membrane was extremely tough and hard for me to tear and I didn’t take the chicks out but I did tear one membrane as I said and the chick was very sticky not wet. I’m not sure what that means.
Thank you for your kind words. It was very hard especially seeing so many fully formed chicks dead.

Thank you yes. I feel like for me it’s better to try adding water and going a more traditional route until I gain experience.

My first hatch went horrible and I followed all the 'rules'. It was depressing. I don't know what went wrong. I think I got 1 chick out. Same with the first time I hatched ducks and turkeys. Lots of dead in the shell right at the end. I do mostly dry now because it works better for me. There's definitely a learning curve with hatching and it can be brutal. Hugs and hope you have better hatches in the future. Mine have improved but I'm still learning and some still die.

 

[Mylied]

Adore, my broody's, chicks are doing well. The last 2 far along eggs have internally pipped. The 2 duck eggs have internally pipped too. Hopefully everyone hatches well despite the weird staggered hatching I've been doing.