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

[klweber2002]

I bet your eggs will be just in time for the Easter hatch-a-long!
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Oh that will be so much fun to have little fluffy butts at easter

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

I candled my Gypsy Hen eggs and moved them to the hatcher (D17). I’m sort of freaking out because the air cells seem way too small to me and I don’t understand why. I didn’t notice them looking too small on day 13 when I candled, and I incubate pretty dry, like usually 30-35% so I’m really confused. Only had to pull 1 egg out of the 20 eggs so 19 are in lockdown. Going to run the humidity as low as possible until day 20.

Candled my 3rd batch of the month (D14) and lost another OE, so I’m down to 2 OE, 4 EE and 2 Marans. I feel like both Marans eggs are quitters but I’m leaving them in a while longer because they are really dark and hard to see in.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

I hope its okay. I think it popped its yolk because you can see yellow. If thats the case he's a goner

 

[Kizmet]

I hope its okay. I think it popped its yolk because you can see yellow. If thats the case he's a goner

Any updates?

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Any updates?

Still alive. Lucky little thing. He's heads out (I had to do this so he could breath) but everything else is still in the shell, and he'll hopefully progress as normal

 

[Kizmet]

Only three of twenty five eggs left to hatch! Two have pipped, not sure about the last one.

 

[abpatchy]

I'm totally sad and feeling guilty.
I went to the coop this morning feeding the chickens. As I watched them eating their feed... I noticed that one hen was missing from the one breeding group. I went outside, thinking she might have not made it inside before the door closed automaticly.
No hen, no feathers.... I checked the water barrels and she was in one of them... drowned.
I am so upset... she died because I was not careful enough! I dumped the water out and I will figure out what I'll cover them with.
Her chicks will be hatching this weekend. I don't know if it's a comfort or even more upsetting.
Unfortunately, I won't know exactly which of the chicks are hers. Just the breeding group she was in. I grabed another egg from that breeding group and added it to the eggs I'll be putting in on the 22nd. Don't know if it's hers... but it could be.

 

[Kizmet]

I'm totally sad and feeling guilty.
I went to the coop this morning feeding the chickens. As I watched them eating their feed... I noticed that one hen was missing from the one breeding group. I went outside, thinking she might have not made it inside before the door closed automaticly.
No hen, no feathers.... I checked the water barrels and she was in one of them... drowned.
I am so upset... she died because I was not careful enough! I dumped the water out and I will figure out what I'll cover them with.
Her chicks will be hatching this weekend. I don't know if it's a comfort or even more upsetting.
Unfortunately, I won't know exactly which of the chicks are hers. Just the breeding group she was in. I grabed another egg from that breeding group and added it to the eggs I'll be putting in on the 22nd. Don't know if it's hers... but it could be.

Don’t beat yourself up over it; an easy mistake to make and not something you’d automatically think to check. Sorry for your loss, I hope her babies hatch successfully for you!

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Still alive. We have chirping. If I can keep him this snuggly till atleast Monday we should be okay! You can probably tell by size of his head hes abit big. The cling wrap is to keep the inner membrane and yolk moist, and its working. I've left bottom of the shell wrap free to allow it to "breathe"

 

[FortCluck]

I'm totally sad and feeling guilty.
I went to the coop this morning feeding the chickens. As I watched them eating their feed... I noticed that one hen was missing from the one breeding group. I went outside, thinking she might have not made it inside before the door closed automaticly.
No hen, no feathers.... I checked the water barrels and she was in one of them... drowned.
I am so upset... she died because I was not careful enough! I dumped the water out and I will figure out what I'll cover them with.
Her chicks will be hatching this weekend. I don't know if it's a comfort or even more upsetting.
Unfortunately, I won't know exactly which of the chicks are hers. Just the breeding group she was in. I grabed another egg from that breeding group and added it to the eggs I'll be putting in on the 22nd. Don't know if it's hers... but it could be.

This thread has been hit with quite a few losses. I'm sorry you had to be part of it and I'm sorry for your loss. I am glad though that you have some of her chicks that will be hatching, to me it's better to have a piece of her than nothing at all.

You're holding eggs from now till the 22nd?