setting eggs tomorrow.... 3-21-12 who wants to join? - Page 29

So I found this thread late, but I put some eggs in the incubator on the 23rd... so I think they are due today if I counted right :-)  It's been a couple of years since I hatched eggs.  And that year took me several tried to get anything right!  By my last hatch  I ended up with more chickens and ducks then I knew what to do with!  Anywho, hopefully I'm still doing everything right.  I've got different "settings" of eggs all in the same incubator.  If I raised the humidity of the room to match my incubator would it be alright to take the top off to shift them?  It's not hard to do... they are in the laundry room so I just pull the hose off the back of the dryer and shut the door to the room for 15 mins :-)  What do you guys think?

I also left my water trays in... I'd rather exchange them for sponges so I don't have any drownings...

Oh, they're so cute!!!!!

Welcome, Isis!

My hatch is officially over.  I mentally and emotionally prepared myself to find a dead in shell chick this morning, and got to the school as soon as I thought the teachers would be there. Instead, I found a newly hatched chick!!! She seems exhausted, but is alive and healthy.  So, I got 6/7 total. 6/6 from lockdown. Not bad for a schoolbased hatch, eh?

I'm getting the incubator all cleaned out, and then I'll be setting it at my daughter's school for the first grade. A friend here GAVE me 7 BLRW eggs.

It sounds like you did the right thing. Good for you. Hoping it hatches out ok. It sounds like it'll be a while if the veins are still pretty big. 

will deff try that thanks alot

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Originally Posted by DirtCreature 

If you get them off the brinsea site you can use a 10% promo code, OR i HEARD you can call brinsea directly, and talk to them and get re-manufactured ones/floor models (used by them at fairs once) for cheaper but they still work just fine....

 

I found this thread and read through it. I think it would be helpful for you and its not a very long read....

 

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/631919/cheap-incubator-turner

edited to add thread.

 

hello everyone....welcome isis......congrats sphinx and kuntrygirl for your hatches..... dirtcreature, that was the right thing to do, hopefully everything turns ok............here is my final count....i got 26 chicks out of 30 eggs in lockdown.....the remaining 4 were pipped but just couldn't pop the shell........still i'm happy with this hatch.........CONTRATS AGAIN EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!.............