Recent content by tbyersdorf

I realize your post is from last July, but I am in Oregon and have Sumatra chicks for sale. 8.00 each. They are about a month old. email me at [email protected] and I can give you info on them.

Black Sumatra chicks, almost a month old. 6 females and one male. Will not sell the roo without at least 3 hens...but will sell hens separate. A couple generations away from hatchery...so not top show quality, but not hatchery either. Healthy babies...have never shipped month old chicks, so...

I just went and candled them. I have 5 left out of a dozen. A couple have air cells at both ends? One has a air cell kinda in the middle, plus one where it belongs...and two are totally dark except for the air cells...but no signs they are coming thru the air cell yet. So, maybe two might hatch...

Well, I'm in lockdown, but I have a bad feeling about this. Going by what you all post....I never saw any movement when I candled the eggs...just saw veins and stuff. They have been in lockdown about 38 hours now and absolutly no movement..no pips...nothing..they are just laying there. :( I...

There is a lady on Craigs list that advertises show quality silkie eggs, but I don't think I want to go there! LOL...Silkies sound harder than normal chicks and I haven't mastered normal yet :) There is someone else that advertises cukoo marans...but read here that there are hard to hatch too...

I PM'd you.

I need to double check when I go into lockdown. I set the eggs on Monday the 24th at 6 am. I go into lockdown tomorrow morning, correct? (Friday). I threw out 3 more eggs. Really weird..they were dark brown ones that I couldnt see into earlier...and when I candled last night..it was really easy...

I wondered about water temp. I read somewhere when adding water, that it should be lukewarm...but hot makes more sense when you have a humidity problem already.

I'm in Oregon..and we have gone more than 100 days without rain...so humidity is really low. Course, I'm sure once these guys hatch the winter rains will start and we will be flooding for the next 4 months! LOL

I solved my humidity problem! Yeah! Thank you so much for who posted about that deep is not what matters..but floor space :) I have 2 wet washcloths in there now and humidity is in the high 40's..so I'm a happy camper now :) Just have to keep the washcloths wet :) Still have 8 eggs...at least 6...

I definatly don't have any blood rings...that pic looks like an egg very early in the process...so ones with blood rings don't get along in developing or can you get blood rings anytime?

I'm just a newbie at this, but was told to keep the plugs out so that you have adequate air flow. I do have a harder time keeping humidity with the plugs out though. Since you can't measure air flow, I don't know how to tell if your getting enough or not..hopefully someone has a better answer...

Can someone post a pic of a blood ring so we can see? ...and I need to know what causes them too ;) I don't know if I have any in this batch or not.....

Makes perfect sense :) How do you keep humidity stable? I added a small baby food jar with a piece of terry cloth soaked in water...and still only get 31% humidity and all the troughs in the bottom of the bator are also filled with water. The only way is seems to get humidity up is to close both...

No pics, but the vents are one inch round holes with red plastic stoppers. The stoppers are not in the vents except if the temp falls too much, I put the vents in to raise the temp and then take them back out. I just put blocks under the incubator to raise it off the table so the air holes...