Recent content by ChelC

I have the exact same thing happening right now. I let my broody hatch and found two chicks this morning. She wasn't making an effort to keep them warm and one had died, so I took the other away from her. It's under a lamp now but doing the exact same thing you mention. It also looks like...

I have another one zipping! And on second look, my cochin mix now that it's fluffy is brown, not black and looking very much like his dad after all, but with furry feet. It will be interesting to see what it turns out like.

Update - Well, have two new chicks, two pipping now and two doing nothing. We are on day 23, so I'm going a little nutty. My husband and I are staying out of town tonight for one night only. I guess at some point before then I'm going to need to remove my new chicks to a brooder (they hatched...

I don't, mine is a home made bator. I will ventilate it a little and see if it clears. Thanks!

It wasn't foggy until the one started zipping, so I think it's just the humidity from that.

I'm on day 22 and finally I have a chick starting to zip and the glass is all fogged and I can't see! I know it's normal I just need something to distract me before I lose my mind. How do you distract yourself from the hatch?

I had to put it in backwards so the sensor was reading the temps better, and then the fluctuation stopped. I bent some hardware cloth to attach it to closer to the center of the incubator. HTH!

Back from my meeting and nothing new, except I have heard one peeping.

I know! I have to go to a meeting in an hour and I'm so irritated. Last night I skipped a birthday party "just in case."

I don't know. My first hatch is a little late. Today is day 22, and I do have two holes this morning, but no sound or movement, so I'm getting nervous. I'm not sure how long it usually takes from when they start to when I should worry?

I'm too late to join but I am on day 16. Set nine, three never developed. Six moving as of yesterdays candling in our home made bator, so we're thrilled thus far!

We built one and are on day 9. We set 9 eggs and 6 are alive and growing well. 3 were discarded and I'm not sure they were fertile, they hadn't begun to grow at all. I have my fingers crossed for the six. I've had a little bit more fluctuation in temp than I'd like, but nothing drastic and...

You will be sure not to waste the meat, since you know how hard it was to take it's life. That's how I feel... so much more respectful of the meat because I know what it was once. I was much more wasteful with store-bought meat. We always tell our son not to waste meat because an animal had to...

Thanks. We did try the dish soap. We had read to have the water around 140 and those feathers were really tough to get out, so maybe it wasn't hot enough? I think the worst part was that we used a killing cone and our first one just looked at us and then after we'd slit her throat we kind of...

Thanks! We got it done okay. The first was a nightmare but after that we figured it out and got a system down, but we did end up skinning them all. The birds we processed were not meat breeds and they were fairly small with thin skin. We just couldn't get the feathers loose enough to pull...