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

[baby-blue]

This just in: more neighbors are giving me their chicken and duck eggs. Mentioning that I have a big bator running was a mistake. Picking them up later today, and I’ll be getting a big bunch of eggs from our hay supplier next weekend. She has 40+ chooks and ducks that she lets lay freely and she never collects eggs. It’ll be tough figuring out which ones are fresher than the others... but I’ll be happy to do it! More pictures to come once eggs are added!

 

[gimmie birdies]

I started out 10 days or so ago with this home made incubator that I made with the foam, plastic bottom, and box of the yellow top incubator.(with out the yellow top) Eggs in this incubator are about 8 days old.

They are resting in an egg turner that is not plugged in, and I hand turn, because the white and blue eggs had loose air cells but are better now. (turner not plugged in.)

I did have my 39 meyer hatchery eggs in the below incubator I made, this one I had for years it is a good starting the eggs off right incubator.

The 39 meyer eggs got moved and candled yesterday, they had been in for 3 days, and only 3 were clear out of the 39, below is one of the meyer eggs on day 4 not all are this veiny but all I kept had something going on.

Since the pink windowed home made incubator did so well, I have another dozen in that one.

Below is my shipped incubator I got last night, it now has the Meyer eggs in it, the turner is a yellow top plastic turners I adjusted to fit in this incubator, I still have to hand turn, but I turn a tray and not each egg.

I have diff thermometers and even the corners get good heat. (Don't worry about hum. reading I added more water this AM.

 

[Rockporters]

It’s been a busy few weeks. Only one of the bbs English Orpington eggs developed. The air cell was saddled, and there was a lot of liquid swishing around that we could see when candling. I sat the egg up in a carton at lockdown. Honestly, I had written it off. I never expected it to actually hatch.

Fast forward to day 21... I split time between MA and NH. As I was getting ready to Leave NH to head back to MA, I remembered the egg, and that it was day 21. Glanced at it, didn’t see a pip. Took it out of the incubator planning to candle it, expecting it to be dis. Of course that’s when I notice the pip on the lower backside of the egg. I tossed it back into the incubator and added water, hoping that I didn’tshrink wrap it. Unplugged the incubator, put it in the car. I plugged it into a power converter for the ride home. As I drove down our road I was reminded just how terrible it is. (Dirt road, rutted from recent rain/snow melt) Anyway, it is a 2 hour drive home to MA from there.

Unbelievably, that silly egg just hatched! The chick appears to be healthy, and noisy! Hoping to integrate him into a small group of 3 week olds in a few days, so he won’t be lonely. Here is the little toughie...

 

[jolenesdad]

This just in: more neighbors are giving me their chicken and duck eggs. Mentioning that I have a big bator running was a mistake. Picking them up later today, and I’ll be getting a big bunch of eggs from our hay supplier next weekend. She has 40+ chooks and ducks that she lets lay freely and she never collects eggs. It’ll be tough figuring out which ones are fresher than the others... but I’ll be happy to do it! More pictures to come once eggs are added!

Duck eggs are so transparent if you candle and draw air cells, you’ll be able to set just the smallest air cell eggs!

 

[jolenesdad]

It’s been a busy few weeks. Only one of the bbs English Orpington eggs developed. The air cell was saddled, and there was a lot of liquid swishing around that we could see when candling. I sat the egg up in a carton at lockdown. Honestly, I had written it off. I never expected it to actually hatch.

Fast forward to day 21... I split time between MA and NH. As I was getting ready to Leave NH to head back to MA, I remembered the egg, and that it was day 21. Glanced at it, didn’t see a pip. Took it out of the incubator planning to candle it, expecting it to be dis. Of course that’s when I notice the pip on the lower backside of the egg. I tossed it back into the incubator and added water, hoping that I didn’tshrink wrap it. Unplugged the incubator, put it in the car. I plugged it into a power converter for the ride home. As I drove down our road I was reminded just how terrible it is. (Dirt road, rutted from recent rain/snow melt) Anyway, it is a 2 hour drive home to MA from there.

Unbelievably, that silly egg just hatched! The chick appears to be healthy, and noisy! Hoping to integrate him into a small group of 3 week olds in a few days, so he won’t be lonely. Here is the little toughie...

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Omg what a great story

 

[livhatcher]

All of mine are looking good so far... This is the first time I've staggered a hatch on purpose...whereby I mean that people kept giving me eggs, so I kept adding them. My friends are so pleased with their marans that they got from me that they keep giving me the "baby potentials" ;-)

 

[baby-blue]

Duck eggs are so transparent if you candle and draw air cells, you’ll be able to set just the smallest air cell eggs!

Oh awesome!! Thank you so much for the tip!

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

It’s been a busy few weeks. Only one of the bbs English Orpington eggs developed. The air cell was saddled, and there was a lot of liquid swishing around that we could see when candling. I sat the egg up in a carton at lockdown. Honestly, I had written it off. I never expected it to actually hatch.

Fast forward to day 21... I split time between MA and NH. As I was getting ready to Leave NH to head back to MA, I remembered the egg, and that it was day 21. Glanced at it, didn’t see a pip. Took it out of the incubator planning to candle it, expecting it to be dis. Of course that’s when I notice the pip on the lower backside of the egg. I tossed it back into the incubator and added water, hoping that I didn’tshrink wrap it. Unplugged the incubator, put it in the car. I plugged it into a power converter for the ride home. As I drove down our road I was reminded just how terrible it is. (Dirt road, rutted from recent rain/snow melt) Anyway, it is a 2 hour drive home to MA from there.

Unbelievably, that silly egg just hatched! The chick appears to be healthy, and noisy! Hoping to integrate him into a small group of 3 week olds in a few days, so he won’t be lonely. Here is the little toughie...

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Oh my gosh! What an awesome story. Precious baby!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

It’s been a busy few weeks. Only one of the bbs English Orpington eggs developed. The air cell was saddled, and there was a lot of liquid swishing around that we could see when candling. I sat the egg up in a carton at lockdown. Honestly, I had written it off. I never expected it to actually hatch.

Fast forward to day 21... I split time between MA and NH. As I was getting ready to Leave NH to head back to MA, I remembered the egg, and that it was day 21. Glanced at it, didn’t see a pip. Took it out of the incubator planning to candle it, expecting it to be dis. Of course that’s when I notice the pip on the lower backside of the egg. I tossed it back into the incubator and added water, hoping that I didn’tshrink wrap it. Unplugged the incubator, put it in the car. I plugged it into a power converter for the ride home. As I drove down our road I was reminded just how terrible it is. (Dirt road, rutted from recent rain/snow melt) Anyway, it is a 2 hour drive home to MA from there.

Unbelievably, that silly egg just hatched! The chick appears to be healthy, and noisy! Hoping to integrate him into a small group of 3 week olds in a few days, so he won’t be lonely. Here is the little toughie...

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What a little trooper!!

 

[Trisseh]

All this talk of TSC babies makes me sad. I don’t have access to any around here, the only place that -might- have random babies won’t be getting them til May at the earliest. But bring on the eggs! My Ayam Cemani egg went into lockdown yesterday; I don’t feel great about it, didn’t look 100% right, embryo looked smaller than anticipated, but giving it a chance since no blood ring/spots or smelliness. Can't get a clear pic when i candled to show y'all... so fingers crossed, and will live vicariously through all of your hatches until i get my Icelandic eggs! haha!