Posts by uncle

My roo died the night before. they were off food and water for about 12 hrs when the one died, I tried him about 8 hrs later and everything inside was sticking together. I had no problems seeing my target I think it was just jelled...

I had 3 roos in the cage without food and water waiting to caponize. 1 of the roos died in the cage so I started with him. I can tell you that if he wasn't dead already, I would have killed him. The spreader I was using was not...

That's true. Chickens hatch eggs all the time and I was told,"they can't count". so i know they don't lockdown on day 18. Brian  

wife says, "I got a surprise for you". takes me to the incubator and there's chicks riding the turners. Saturday I took the wrong batch of eggs off the turner and placed them in lock down. Tell me I'm not the only one to loose...

I just put another 40 in lock down. I spritzed the eggs with warm water. The eggs are fertile, as they were developed but didn't hatch. The humidity is 60% and I'm hoping for no power failures this time. I'll keep you...

These are my eggs from my flock. 2 to 3 days old max., never refridgerated. I do not rotate tham around, do I need to? Brian  

I have terrible hatches and they are not getting any better. Now I've come for help. I started with a LG foam incubator with auto turners and never had more than 18 out of 40 to hatch. I have built a cabinet incubator out of on old...

I hear one peeping now so maybe some will hatch. Brian  

Woke up this morning to a blown breaker to my incubator room. We had storms last night and all was well when I went to bed. Got around this AM about 7 and noticed the tripped breaker. When I powered it back up the temp was...

I will have to set them all side by side and see but I still won't know which one is right. The two digitals  are 37.7, 36.9 and the two mercury are 37.4 and 36.2 all in C.  How close to 99.5 do you really need to...