INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

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Sally Sunshine said:
Phage said:
At work mostly :(


My reason for hatching eggs in the first place has just gone to vet school (in UK) and now I have to pay for it.
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that happens, it will pass sooner than you know it! you just need to hatch more and more right? :lau   but then you have no time!!!
Have you found a good place to work? do you have to apprentice for a while?
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Super super lucky to have a great job- just not enough hours in the day to do what I need to do, plus what I want to do - but do both anyway.
Working on some papers on bird (penguin) anatomy just now (between teaching and research).
 
canadachickens said:
Pics as promised. Please excuse the nose prints on the bator windows.


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Congratulations, CC!!! What's wrong with nose prints on the bator window? Don't all bators have nose prints on them when chicks start hatching???
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Sally, set a bakers dozen silkies, three clears, one quitter at day 18, so nine left in bator, three pips and one escapee so far,
Ur, I apologized in advance because I was teasing Louly about the nose prints on her bator a few hundred posts back! Lol.
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Sally Sunshine said:
What have you learned about incubation so far?
learned that you need more than one thermometer and hygro?
and to calibrate them?
that you need to not use humidity as a set number, that you use it as a tool to get the proper weight loss?
how important turning is?

there are many things to learn.... where you want to start?  what bator are you using? fan or no fan? what temp are you running it?


as far as pipping, there is a fine line here, one that comes with experience.... I have an assisted hatch guide... the reason I wrote it is because most first time hatchers get too antsy and kill chicks by stress and picking at pips thinking their chicks are dying during the resting stage from external pip stage to the final zipping stage.    Some of us that breed will not help our chicks at all...
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I am going to be picking up the Incubator from someone I work with so I can tell you about it soon.
I have read the importance of calibration, but II didn't know about having two. The more I have read the more I am unsure of, and the more complicated what I thought would be a fun project has become.
 
Hello all just set my first duck eggs on Friday and have read different things about humidity on just about every website. I need some expert advice. So here I am
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The paper they threw in with the eggs from the hatchery said to keep the humidity up to 86% and 94% at hatch! That seems super high to me.(My guess is this is for the commercial hatcheries?). I have looked and looked through the threads but it is hard for me to know just what a duck needs. (this is my first duck hatch and I'm a wreak already) haha. I will second guess my every move, that's just my nature. So from what I gather so far is 45-50% is ideal until hatch and hatch is 70ish? ?? Whats the expert advice here?
 
I should add my incubator is a hovabator 1588 force air. I am using little cups of water to regulate the humidity.
 
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