Who is pipping and waiting right now??

[Kessidy]

Mrs AK bird Brain, thank you so much. That is great to hear. What a relief!

 

[tammy j]

OMG. Just got off work, and checked the bator... 30 chicks with another still hatching.
I moved 28 to the brooder, and kept the other 2 inside since they were still damp. I now have 10 chicken eggs, and 5 guinea eggs left to do something. ( Did I figure this correctly... I have a 63 percent hatch rate. )
My brooder is a livestock water tank, like what you would see at a feed store filled with chicks. I put a heat lamp over it last night and had fresh wood chips put in. This is all sitting inside our garage. I have a screen and tarp I can put over it, if needed, but as long as the doors are down there should not be a draft. Food and water are now in there with them.
I have 4 fluffy yellow. 2 tan/ brown, 2 cream colored and the rest are black or black/yellow / cream combo.

My hens are as follows... 4 black australorps, 3 buff ophingtons, 3 doms, and a cream and brown something or other and a RIR- who left her nest to care for the little black baby she hatched, so I know she didn't lay any of these eggs. My roos are a OEG, 2 dom crosses and a OEG/ buff orph cross. OH yeah we inherited a dom roo 2 weeks ago. He wondered in or was dumped to roam with my flock. Needless to say I have too many roos! No telling how many I now have.LOL
I gotta find my camera and get pics now.

 

[MissPrissy]

Congrats on your hatch, tammy!

For your hatch rate How many eggs did you start with? How many where clear and never started? How many quit or died before hatching? How many live chicks do you have at the total end of the hatch?

 

[tammy j]

Thanks MissPrissy. I started with 42 chicken eggs and 5 guinea. One egg started oozing something out of it, so last week I threw it away. I still don't know what that was all about. I have never tried to candle eggs before, so I just left them alone. When I put them in the bator, I realized the next day my turner had stopped working so I have had to turn them myself. To get my humidity up this weekend I put an old towel in the bottom of my bator( little giant) under the screen. Then added water over it. My humidity went up to 65-70% and stayed pretty constant.
So far I have 31 hatched. 10 chicken eggs and 5 guineas left that still have not hatched. But this is only day 21. I can't believe that so many have hatched. I was hoping for 4 or 5 chicks, since I usually don't have alot of luck with them.
It looks like I may have 1 more pipping. This one had a small crack in it ( I drew my circle around it) and now it also had a chip in it. Not actually a hole yet just a small place that is punched out.
I plan on watching the rest of the night of course.
I also want to say a great big huge THANK YOU to everyone here. I have learned so much. I don't do alot of posting, but do enjoy reading everyone's posts. You people are so very helpful. So again, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

 

[MissPrissy]

With the chicken eggs if those 10 do not hatch it is a 76% hatch rate but if they never started growing they don't count so your rate would be higher.

The guineas are at 0%.

 

[bearcat73]

PIP PIP HOORAY! I have a pip! One of my Ameraucanas (due tomorrow) is pipped and chirping up a storm.

 

[MsMcChick]

Here we go again, LOL. I popped open the 'bator door tonight to fill up the water pan, looked in the turner and thought "gee, i must not have taken all the shells out from the duck hatch"...then it dawned on me, they were all hatched out in the drawer on bottom, so duh, this shell was from a newbie. Not due til the 19th (and it's NOT the 19th!!), I have several of ChickyChee's eggs pipped and 1 mille hatched and one OEG hatched.
My temps with the 3 different thermometers is 99-100 on every one, and last night i had a stupid moment where i thought the power was out (for like an hour) and it was the electric cord unplugged, which i THOUGHT would set me back a few hours if not a day, not increase the time by 4 days! These little guys are happy and healthy, WOW. Would my humidity level decrease the hatch time? I can't believe 3 thermometers are all wrong, different types and placed in different parts of a cabinet incubator! It has 2 fans on top, and as the eggs get closer to hatch I move them up so I can put new ones in the bottom trays, then 3 days before hatch I move them to the tray on the bottom...only they've all started to hatch on the 3rd day before their due!! Not that i'm complaining, but has anyone else had this issue?

 

[joebryant]

4:58 P.M. The first one hatched. CUTE! dark-blue Orpington

5:40 #2 hatched. splash Orpington

10:54 #3 hatched blue Orpington

I can't remove any of them from the incubator until 36 hours after the first one hatches (late hatchers), don't want to change the environment's heat/humidity. Pictures Friday; you can look, but don't touch. I tried to take pictures of the two that have hatched, but they didn't show clearly on the photo through the Brower THI20 flat, "clear"-plastic cover with the very bright light bulb in the center of the incubator that gives off the heat. I cannot remove the cover and take the babies out until 36 hours after the first one hatched; that will be Friday at 5:30 A.M. I'll take several when all that are going to hatch finish hatching and I can revome the cover. Then I will be moving them to the brooder box for water and food.

 

[chickenranchwife]

On my way home from work I called DH to see if any chicks had hatched yet, he forgot today was the day. He looked and found three hatched, and one more getting close. Just when I got home the 4th one was zipping and hatched. I've got two black feather footed chicks, one yellowish and am up to three black no feathers on feet. Yep I am up to 6 chicks out of 33 so far and more have pipped.

One more is almost done zipping. It's a black one too! Am hoping for feather footed babe.

 

[carugoman]

on day 18 pipping started with full hatch on day 21. Out of 36 eggs from a totally messed up order from Ideal poultry, I've had 9 birds make it...7 pullets 2 roos. So that makes the hatch rate 25%; my worst ever in 38 years! I guess when you act on a recommendation,from those that "know", you should consider the source and caveat emptor.