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Skinny rooster
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by Skinny rooster » Sun Jun 25, 2017 9:53 pm
I did a dumb dumb! Two hens wanted to hatch so I set each with six eggs and I added 8 extra in the incubator. That way they have a good group each to raise. I marked the calender and they were suppose to hatch this Saturday. By this afternoon nothing, no chicks under the hens, no chicks in the incubator. I realized after that I marked the calender wrong, they are coming NEXT weekend. Trouble is I stopped turning the eggs because I thought they were going to hatch. I don't think they have been turned since Friday morning. I turned them this afternoon. I wonder now if I screwed up my babies??? What do you think?
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Ontario Chick
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by Ontario Chick » Sun Jun 25, 2017 10:10 pm
It isn't a big problem to stop turning eggs early, eggs don't need to be turned after 14 days of incubation so you should be fine
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Skinny rooster
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by Skinny rooster » Sun Jun 25, 2017 11:56 pm
Whew! I hope you are right. I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote the dates down.
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by kenya » Mon Jun 26, 2017 2:27 pm
Yup after 14 you don't really need to turn them but I still do. Sometimes I forget and turn them right up to hatch and might even not notice till a chick has already hatched.
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by Silkie Sue » Mon Jun 26, 2017 4:15 pm
I've gotten the dates wrong myself... same scenario.... they were fine... we need pics
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by Happy » Mon Jun 26, 2017 6:40 pm
Lol how on Earth do you forget hatch day?! Not making fun...I wish I could do that because it means you lost track of it! I'm on day 13 with my Bator (in 1 hour and 24 minutes) lol
Clearly I need to be busier!
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Skinny rooster
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by Skinny rooster » Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:58 pm
I wrote in the wrong calendar box, I marked "set hens" on June 4, which proves I need a brain tuneup because some eggs have June 10 and 12 written on them. Can't set eggs on the fourth that won't come for another 6 to 8 days! Lol
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by windwalkingwolf » Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:19 pm
Erm, not to nitpick, but if a hen laid an egg on the 12th, and you set it on the 12th, it still wouldn't hatch on a Saturday unless it was 2 days early or 5 days late :/
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by Skinny rooster » Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:27 am
windwalkingwolf wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:19 pm
Erm, not to nitpick, but if a hen laid an egg on the 12th, and you set it on the 12th, it still wouldn't hatch on a Saturday unless it was 2 days early or 5 days late :/
That's ok www lol. Most were set on the tenth and a few on the twelfth, so I am expecting chicks that weekend but some will come Monday. They will be bantams so maybe arrive a day early. I have had bantams show up day 18 and be perfectly normal.
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