Have you got the chick bug yet Update and pics

[purplequeenvt]

We just hatched another batch and i'm very disappointed at how few seem to hatch. we're only getting 2-4 chicks for about a dozen eggs. ... we've hatched maybe four batches over the last year or so.

i have a styrofoam incubator i bought from tractor supple and the automatic turner. we keep the temp set at 99.5 (or whatever it is supposed to be, there is a mark on the thermometer) and keep the water channels full. I turn the turner off at about 18-19 days.

I tried hand turning with the first batch, but my schedule can be weird and i stressed about it, so i went back and got the turner.

any ideas what we're doing wrong?

I have no idea what the problem is, but I set 18 eggs in February and had only 4 hatch. Of those 4, only one chick survived.

 

[purplequeenvt]

I will not get any chicks.

I will not get any chicks.

I will not get any chicks.

That's what I tell myself every time I go into Tractor Supply. It works as long as they don't have Speckled Sussex, feather-footed or crested bantams, or Blue Swedish ducks.

I tried that too. It doesn't work.

I guess you'll just have to buy all the chicks so that the rest of us won't be able to!

 

[beckyburkheart]

We just hatched another batch and i'm very disappointed at how few seem to hatch. we're only getting 2-4 chicks for about a dozen eggs. ... we've hatched maybe four batches over the last year or so.

i have a styrofoam incubator i bought from tractor supple and the automatic turner. we keep the temp set at 99.5 (or whatever it is supposed to be, there is a mark on the thermometer) and keep the water channels full. I turn the turner off at about 18-19 days.

I tried hand turning with the first batch, but my schedule can be weird and i stressed about it, so i went back and got the turner.

any ideas what we're doing wrong?

I have no idea what the problem is, but I set 18 eggs in February and had only 4 hatch. Of those 4, only one chick survived.

What is an 'expected' number of chicks per dozen eggs?

We have lost a couple of chicks, but most of them do fine if they make it out of the egg.

 

[purplequeenvt]

We just hatched another batch and i'm very disappointed at how few seem to hatch. we're only getting 2-4 chicks for about a dozen eggs. ... we've hatched maybe four batches over the last year or so.

i have a styrofoam incubator i bought from tractor supple and the automatic turner. we keep the temp set at 99.5 (or whatever it is supposed to be, there is a mark on the thermometer) and keep the water channels full. I turn the turner off at about 18-19 days.

I tried hand turning with the first batch, but my schedule can be weird and i stressed about it, so i went back and got the turner.

any ideas what we're doing wrong?

I have no idea what the problem is, but I set 18 eggs in February and had only 4 hatch. Of those 4, only one chick survived.

What is an 'expected' number of chicks per dozen eggs?

We have lost a couple of chicks, but most of them do fine if they make it out of the egg.

I don't think there is a set number. Hatch rates depend on a lot of different factors such as fertility, temperature, humidity.

 

[Royd Wood]

I will not get any chicks.

I will not get any chicks.

I will not get any chicks.

You know you want to

We know you want to

Your Hubby knows you want some

Let us know when they arrive

 

[capretta]

My goodness! You sure have a lot of them coming! I want to order new chicks SO BAD but my girls are pretty terrible when it comes to introducing new members...

So instead, I'm waiting for my broody Araucana to hatch her chicks!!!! They will be Araucana/Olive eggers, so I'm pretty excited for them to start laying! Only 11 more days... I hope I don't lose my mind... (;

 

[daisychick]

I have 40 week old chicks outside in the brooder and 15 that just hatched in my living room.