chicks pipping

[Ash]

Hiya Snowball ,
hows them eggs you got from ross doing , mine are starting now and its only day 19 , i havent did anything different this time so dont know why there hatching earlier than usual lol , must be the warmer weather . Mind you im using a different bator .

Ash

[littlefeathers]

Hi Ash, glad to hear your little chooks are pipping, out of my 3 fertile eggs, one had a blood ring, one stopped growing a few days ago so now im left with 1 which is due out this weekend hopefully ..... hey presto one chick.... fingers crossed.

[Ash]

Hiya Mandy,
sorry about your 2 eggs , looks like good news on the other though . Knowing your luck it will be a roo lol

Ash

[madcat]

hi ash and mandy , congrats on your chicks pipping ash . im sorry to hear off your 2 eggs not living but good luck with the last one xx madcat xx

[snowball]

Hi Ash

an egg update for you , since you were round earlier! So far 2 golden campines, 5 lemon pencilled fresians are out with lots more pipping, so bets are on for how many hatch!


hope yours are all doing well , any more pipped or hatched when you got home?

snowball

[snowball]

MANDY, Fingers crossed for the last egg , hope it hatches!


snowball

[Ash]

Hiya Snowball,
yep when i got back home , one silkie chick had made its way into this world , still only another 2 pipping at the mo , i'll proberly wake up to a nice surprise in the morning , im just so glad theve started on my 2 days off . Iv put a pic of the first one in the poultry pics section .

Ash

[snowball]

Chick count update!

28 chicks so far , just moved to the brooder, with another couple still to hatch out in the bator. It was getting a bit full up in there so we moved them out to their new home!


Snowball

[Ash]

hiya , chicks update,
out of my 19 , only 5 have hatched a real disappointing result .
I dont think it was a fertility problem , more like something iv done wrong as i used a new bator that im not familiar with . Anyway iv bought myself a octagan 20 and a hatchmaker so hope fully better luck next time .

Ash

[duckmad]

bad luck ash
we just had a bad hatch out of the pure bred stuff as well, we have no problem incubating just getting the little things out of the shells and have tried many different ways and what works one week doesnt work the next, seems to be trial and error with new bators
duckmad

[Ash]

Hiya Duckmad,
yeah seem to be luck of the draw , the incubator i used was a manio 3a, i borrowed it from my next door neighbour as i bought some eggs from ross and my bator was full at the time . I dont think i'll be using it again lol , hence why iv bought another brinsea model . Hope you have better luck next time to .

Ash

[duckmad]

funny that
we are using a maino 500 to incubate and having no problem and a me4a to hatch and thats where the problems start. i split the hatch this week and used an old still air poly to hatch as the rubbsih have been hatching like trains in it and i might use the poly to hatch and the me4a to incubate now i think it is something to do with all the air holes and forced air not still, i dont think it is a good combination for hatching but ok for incubating. wee had problems keepking the humidity high enough for hatching hence the resurection of the old poly
duckmad

[snowball]

Ash

what did you end up hatching? Any of the wheaton Marans?

Snowball,

ps

remind Sean about the pic of the radiogram please as my friend is very interested!

[Ash]

Hiya Snowball ,
hmm what did hatch , 1 black silkie , 2 cuckoo marans , 1 wheaton and 1 copper black .
what did you end up with ?

Ash