who else has eggs cooking???

[CrzyChknLady81]

Lovely news. The wrong-end pipper is starting to kick her way out of the egg, it seems like she'll be fine. The just-hatched one is very happy and healthy, and the others have all pipped, one of them just started unzipping. e

Yay!! Great news to end the day with ♡♡ Hope to wake up to lots of fluffy butt pictures ♡♡

 

[pasuit]

Have 13 eggs from the batch due 4/30. Guess I'll discard the last three tomorrow. I'd appreciate any input on this.

 

[pasuit]

Good job. You have a lot of patience.

 

[teamfreewill]

The fluffies are almost ready to be moved to brooder.



This little guy is booted!





This little one popped out while I was asleep.

So far 3/6 have hatched. The rest have pipped but haven't yet started to unzip. The membrane is drying out, but the blood vessels haven't yet receded. So I upped the humidity and left them alone.

 

[cindy parker]

Question...I have a few that pipped last night but haven't gone any further. I can see that one of the membranes is starting to dry out. What should I up the humidity to? It's about 75 now. 3 chicks have hatched fine this morning but none of them were the ones that had pipped last night.

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

Question...I have a few that pipped last night but haven't gone any further. I can see that one of the membranes is starting to dry out. What should I up the humidity to? It's about 75 now. 3 chicks have hatched fine this morning but none of them were the ones that had pipped last night.

To get it up fast, I spray the inside walls of my hatcher with hot water from a misting bottle (be careful to not spray the eggs)..you can also sit wet sponges inside..if the membrane is turning brown, you may have to intervene. .

ETA : where are you located? 75% should be plenty high in most places, do you have an extra hygrometer you can check it with? Or can you rig up a wet bulb thermometer to see if that's right?

 

[cindy parker]

I'm in south ga...it's humid here. 5 eggs have hatched with no problems at all...the only egg that pipped last night was the one with the membrane drying out. Three chicks have hatched in the last hour so the humidity is so high now that I can't see through the windows on the incubator. I have two hygrometers...the digital one that's built in the incubator that currently says 71 percent. I can't see through the fogged up windows to see the digital one I bought at GQF. I trust that one but I know the one built in is normally lower than the one I bought by about 20 percent. What will happen if it's too high? I know it must be for these windows to be so wet.

 

[cindy parker]

Another strange thing is every egg that has hatched so far are the welsummer chicks. Not a single maran has hatched.

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

From what I've read (never hatched them myself) but Maran eggs are thicker, so harder for the chicks to get out..
I'd say your humidity is pretty close to 100% if theres that much condensation on your windows...I'd crack it and let some out..too much can cause the chicks to drown, depending on what the humidity was throughout incubation. .but Ive noticed when mine is too high during hatch: 1. The chicks that do hatch don't dry out 2. They seem to be overly 'sticky' when they hatch..
I do dry incubation so always figured that there was no such thing as it going too high the last few days but I think for me personally it's contributed more issues and problems. So I try to stick around 60-65% now during hatch.. I'm in WV but our humidity is through the roof this year..even dry my incu wants to stay at 35-40% so I have clay desiccant packs in my incu now (5 of them scattered around the outside of the turner )
I wish I could help more..I'm more "hands on" than most, so I'd be in there making safety holes in all the eggs just in case, but that's me and I don't want to recommend something that 90% of other people would tell you to not do..it's a matter of personal preference I guess..I am rooting for the lil ones regardless.. ♡♡

 

[cindy parker]

I really hate to be a pest but I have another question....I have a computer can that was added to this computer...only 6 volts and a 2 inch can. It blows enough and I already have a better hatch rate than I have in the past. The fan can be turned off...should I do that? Maybe it's drying the membranes out as they are hatching? These eggs won't actually be 21 days until about 8 tonight so the marans still have time. I just want to do the right thing with this hatch. My first was a disaster... We kept opening the bator not even realizing we were not supposed to . I ended up having to hatch all but one of them who hatched a day later . We ended up with 9 chicks out of 19. Not as bad as it could have been but not good. Last hatch we had 21 eggs and I left the bator closed and only ended up with 9. I had to assist one of those. The rest died in their shell fully developed.