setting eggs 6/27/12! Hatch-a-long? CHART included - Page 8

so has anyone had problems with their incubators with all of this crazy heat??

 am having nothing BUT trouble with my LG I cannot keep the temp stable, with the bator never opened not messed with it just spikes, driving me nuts

Having that many problems with my incubator, I have decided to just use broody's next year.......and I am in England, so no heat here, just lots and lots of rain 

*hugs* Heather x

i'll take your rain anyday!!!  we haven't have any rain where i am at since father's day

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Originally Posted by heatherscreations1969 

Having that many problems with my incubator, I have decided to just use broody's next year.......and I am in England, so no heat here, just lots and lots of rain 

 

*hugs* Heather x

Absolutely agree!!! This is a borrowed bator, I was going to go buy one then I decided it is so much easier to just "go natural""  LOL

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Originally Posted by bloonskiller911 

i'll take your rain anyday!!!  we haven't have any rain where i am at since father's day

Awww babe, I would gladly send you some rain if I could :)

Hope you get a reprieve soon :)

*hugs* Heather x

Hi everyone. I guess I'm on about day 10?? I candled a few today, saw some movement and thought that is good! Things seem to be going well, but I have had a few slight spikes. I have been using the lower watt bulb the entire time on this 2nd hatch (10 watt fish tank bulb). At the start, I was placing a cover over the incubator to increase the heat. The eggs seem to be starting to generate some of their own heat now. I believe it was around day 12 or 13 on my first hatch that I began having real trouble with spikes. Now in theory, I can just remove the cover  (a sweatshirt that I draped over the incubator) for the remainder of the incubation. I've been steady between 35%-40% humidity so far. I am just occasionally wetting a sponge in the incubator when it drops to 35%. I have one egg that has a small dent/crack...I am just leaving it alone for now, see what happens.  

Here are the babies from the first hatch, and the broody hatch a little earlier. I took this today. I found out today that I have a frizzle in here, an australorp/bantam cochin mix  :)

they look great!  had an incubator spike today.  i don't think it was for very long. so i will candle on the 15th for lockdown and go from there.  hope everyone else is doing well

I candled all 15 eggs, day 13. I saw movement in 13 of the 15, including the cracked egg. The other 2 were along the same pace of development so I believe those are fine. I'm starting to slowly increase my humidity, so by day 18 I will have it around 70%. I might not candle anymore. .