who else has eggs cooking???

[CrzyChknLady81]

Last one popped out while I was asleep. He's perfectly healthy.
This has been my most successful Serama hatch.

Yay! ! Glad to hear the last lil one is healthy ♡

 

[cindy parker]

Mine are all done...started with 21 at lockdown. 4 didn't hatch, one died, and the last one that I hatched this morning is in ICU recovering from being shrink wrapped. My fault and I feel terrible about it but I had to open the incubator to her a chick unstuck from the stupidly designed digital thermometer/hygrometer that the LG9300 has. It took a couple of minutes to get him untwisted and the humidity crashed in the process with eggs still in there that I had put air holes in earlier since the eggs were very thick. I won't ever go that route again. I saw the membrane drying out but I could seethe chicks still breathing. I went to bed and hoped for the best. I didn't want to intervene because it wasn't where they had actually pipped themselves so I wasn't sure if they were ready. I knew in my heart they would be shrink wrapped if I didn't help them,but I upped the humidity and decided to give them til morning. At 6 am another chick had just hatched but the others weren't moving. I managed to get two out alive but one was just too weak and only lived a few minutes. The other one seems to be getting stronger. I gave him save a chick electrolytes and poly visol. I'm now regretting not helping the others last night This is my third time hatching and my hatch rate is improving each time so I'm happy about that. 70 percent of what went into lockdown hatched. We haves some beautiful welsummers,silver marans, and black marans. I will be keeping a few and giving the rest to a friend. I have 14 going in the hatcher tonight. Geez I'm tired. Who ever knew hatching chicks was so stressful Looks like Wednesday will be a very long day.

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

Mine are all done...started with 21 at lockdown. 4 didn't hatch, one died, and the last one that I hatched this morning is in ICU recovering from being shrink wrapped. My fault and I feel terrible about it but I had to open the incubator to her a chick unstuck from the stupidly designed digital thermometer/hygrometer that the LG9300 has. It took a couple of minutes to get him untwisted and the humidity crashed in the process with eggs still in there that I had put air holes in earlier since the eggs were very thick. I won't ever go that route again. I saw the membrane drying out but I could seethe chicks still breathing. I went to bed and hoped for the best. I didn't want to intervene because it wasn't where they had actually pipped themselves so I wasn't sure if they were ready. I knew in my heart they would be shrink wrapped if I didn't help them,but I upped the humidity and decided to give them til morning. At 6 am another chick had just hatched but the others weren't moving. I managed to get two out alive but one was just too weak and only lived a few minutes. The other one seems to be getting stronger. I gave him save a chick electrolytes and poly visol. I'm now regretting not helping the others last night This is my third time hatching and my hatch rate is improving each time so I'm happy about that. 70 percent of what went into lockdown hatched. We haves some beautiful welsummers,silver marans, and black marans. I will be keeping a few and giving the rest to a friend. I have 14 going in the hatcher tonight. Geez I'm tired. Who ever knew hatching chicks was so stressful Looks like Wednesday will be a very long day.

I have the 9300 too..that probe on the plastic gave me fits..this is what I do..in my incubator I lay in on top of the eggs, no big deal..but in my hatcher, it was always in the way. I wanted to cut it off so bad..lol..but we know how that would turn out..so...now I open one side of a window and then I hold the plastic film in place and close the window on it..this keeps it up off the floor..but you have to make sure it's high enough to not clothesline your chicks. You'll have to adjust temps a lil (I use a different calibrated probe that lays on the floor of my hatcher to gauge my temps and a reptile hygrometer)
but anyways, that's my 2 cents on that LG probe monstrosity. .lol

 

[cindy parker]

Thanks for the advise I'm gonna go see if I can get that to work. I have a regular incubator thermometer on the floor of the hatcher and one of the digital hygrometers from Ga quail farm that's attached to the inside by Velcro. I bought a reptile hygrometer yesterday

 

[jeremey]

I have 5 blue and 8 white silkies hatch

 

[Bryam]

I have 8 silkie eggs from my black, grey partridge and dark buff silkies. They seem to developing just fine till now! I will have a nice June hatch!

 

[theeggcollector]

What kind of incubator is that? Those are some adorable babes♡♡

It's a king suro 20 I think brought it second hand for like £20 and I have to say well rated peace of kit for my first hatch can't wait to get more cooking talk about an addiction lol il post more pics once they have all hatched

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

A couple of my most recent hatch..paint Silkies..got 5 true paints, 3 black split to paint and 1 parti that the breeder has no idea who threw..

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

It's a king suro 20 I think brought it second hand for like £20 and I have to say well rated peace of kit for my first hatch can't wait to get more cooking talk about an addiction lol il post more pics once they have all hatched

I love hatching..I knew after my 1st that I was a goner..lol.. went from a borrowed incu and neighbors mutt eggs to seperate incubator and hatcher and the breeds I really want shipped in from all over the US.

 

[AmericanMom]

Five Turkeys out, 3 chickens.....

more piping and zipping



Went to the coop to let the four broodys out and like clockwork one the Jersey Giants waited a heart beat and jumped off the nest, she is due to hatch in 2 days figured this was more then likely her last outing before they hatch, went about my business then headed for the coop for an egg count and to make sure no others snuck eggs into broodys nest.... Much to my amazement there lay a half hatched chick in the JG's nest, I picked it up, stone cold and not moving... looks like she crushed it on the way off the nest... Shoot... took it with me to show husband who was in the process of putting down a 4.5 month old cockerel who had decided everything smaller than himself was fair game.. He had been attacking anything that got in his sights be it turkey or chicken...I have zero tolerance so it was to freezer camp for him... Showed DH the dead chick and we walked into the rabbit house, put the chick in the garbage bag and when I went to push it down it CHIRPED!!! I rushed it into the house and into the incubator, it doesn't look good for it but for now it just needs some warmth and I could think of nothing else on the fly.... Looks to be one of the Buff Orpingtons too!

I did candle the rest of her eggs and there are atleast 6 that have internal pips and one external pip ... She is sitting now on 9 as I took #10