Nothing

So today is hatch day and NOTHING is happening. I am real sad about it too. Like I get soooo excited about this. I wait for this very day and then to have nothing happen is just depressing. We have never had a unsucessful hatch before. Never...not even our 1st hatch. So the reason daryl built this hatcher was because of the new egg turner we installed in the incubator. There is no way to stop the turner to lay the eggs still 3 days before they hatch. I should have not had different eggs with different hatch dates I guess. When we candled the eggs before putting them in the hatcher everything looked GREAT! But now....today is hatch day and no pip, no peeps, nothing at all. I am loosing hope fast. Now I know I have 6 EE chicks in the chicken house already so I could just be happy with them till spring aand with our Florida winter approaching I need to stop hatching soon. I still have 2 small batches in the incubator, frizzles & silkies that I am waiting on. But, all the EEs are in the hatcher so if it has gone wrong so EEs for now. Tonight I plan to have Daryl take out the egg turner so I can finish off the last 2 batches in the incubator and not move anybody to the hatcher. Wish us luck with the last 2 batches. The problem has to be with the hatcher cause 3 days ago we had chicks moving in eggs.

MARY

Incubator & hatcher

So...I am waiting. We have several eggs in daryl's new "Hatcher" and tomorrow is hatch day. So far nothing has happened. I am always worried & wondering the day before. And this time the hatcher is brand new so I am just hoping it works out. It looks like all the eggs we put in there were full of chicks. So now we just wait and see!

MARY

My first hatcher

I put together my first hatcher yesterday. Same concept as a incubator. Our incubator is very full and needed room for the eggs to hatch. After we candled the eggs, we put all in there except one that didn't make it.

Daryl

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