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Late Lockdown :( Will they be ok?

post #1 of 9
7/6/12 at 8:38am
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We went into lockdown 8 hours late (we ended up taking an unexpected day trip yesterday and we were so tired when we got home that I forgot to lock it down).  Will they be ok?  I put a tampon in there in addition to the amount of water I put in for our last hatch to get the humidity up.

~Luke and Ali
Parents to a beautiful baby girl!  Jacquelyne Hope--born 5:03 pm--03/01/2012--9 lb. 9 oz--21.5 inches long
"Parents" to Missy (dog) and hatching 18 barnyard mutts due 07/08or09/12.

Currently on the warpath to hunt down whichever "upstanding citizen" stole my last 10 chicks out of their coop at 10 weeks old.  Be afraid. 

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~Luke and Ali
Parents to a beautiful baby girl!  Jacquelyne Hope--born 5:03 pm--03/01/2012--9 lb. 9 oz--21.5 inches long
"Parents" to Missy (dog) and hatching 18 barnyard mutts due 07/08or09/12.

Currently on the warpath to hunt down whichever "upstanding citizen" stole my last 10 chicks out of their coop at 10 weeks old.  Be afraid. 

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post #2 of 9
7/6/12 at 8:40am

It will be fine, they do not have watches in there. 

 

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post #3 of 9
7/6/12 at 9:19am

It's fine. One time i didn't go on lockdown at all and they hatched anyways.

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post #4 of 9
7/6/12 at 9:24am

If the eggs haven't lost enough weight, I delay lockdown until I hear peeping.

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post #5 of 9
7/7/12 at 7:01pm
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If the eggs haven't lost enough weight, I delay lockdown until I hear peeping.

Eggs lose weight?  ep.gifI never knew that.  Would you explain that to me? 

~Luke and Ali
Parents to a beautiful baby girl!  Jacquelyne Hope--born 5:03 pm--03/01/2012--9 lb. 9 oz--21.5 inches long
"Parents" to Missy (dog) and hatching 18 barnyard mutts due 07/08or09/12.

Currently on the warpath to hunt down whichever "upstanding citizen" stole my last 10 chicks out of their coop at 10 weeks old.  Be afraid. 

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~Luke and Ali
Parents to a beautiful baby girl!  Jacquelyne Hope--born 5:03 pm--03/01/2012--9 lb. 9 oz--21.5 inches long
"Parents" to Missy (dog) and hatching 18 barnyard mutts due 07/08or09/12.

Currently on the warpath to hunt down whichever "upstanding citizen" stole my last 10 chicks out of their coop at 10 weeks old.  Be afraid. 

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post #6 of 9
7/8/12 at 2:00am

Ideally, you'd like them to lose between 12 and 16% of their starting weight by lockdown. If they don't lose enough, they die and if they lose too much they shrinkwrap and die too.

I didn't weigh my first batch, but I stuck to what must have been an ideal humidity as they all hatched. I'm sure yours will be fine too as long as you weren't running too low or too high for your area.

 

It's fun to weigh them as they incubate and see how they're doing. I was incubating 112 eggs (still got 8 left to hatch) in two incubators, so if some didn't lose enough, I'd move them all to the one incubator and set the humidity a bit lower so they'd catch up with the others. It kept me busy for 21 days, anyway!

Friesians, Sebrights, Barnevelders, Araucanas, Cream Legbars, Dutch Bantams, Vorwerks, an Appenzeller Spitzhauben, a Sabelpoot and a few crosses .

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Friesians, Sebrights, Barnevelders, Araucanas, Cream Legbars, Dutch Bantams, Vorwerks, an Appenzeller Spitzhauben, a Sabelpoot and a few crosses .

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post #7 of 9
7/8/12 at 8:22am
Some people don't go into lockdown until they internally pip. Pete55 has some articles about this.
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Layers, ,meaties, goats, kids, and a great wife...life is great.


Hatchery permit/npip certification under way....inspector will be coming any day now!
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post #8 of 9
7/8/12 at 8:48am
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Originally Posted by Time-Out View Post

Ideally, you'd like them to lose between 12 and 16% of their starting weight by lockdown. If they don't lose enough, they die and if they lose too much they shrinkwrap and die too.

I didn't weigh my first batch, but I stuck to what must have been an ideal humidity as they all hatched. I'm sure yours will be fine too as long as you weren't running too low or too high for your area.

 

It's fun to weigh them as they incubate and see how they're doing. I was incubating 112 eggs (still got 8 left to hatch) in two incubators, so if some didn't lose enough, I'd move them all to the one incubator and set the humidity a bit lower so they'd catch up with the others. It kept me busy for 21 days, anyway!

Great idea!!2 incubators  one dryer etc. Makes for a perfect hatch .Willtry the weighing  system too next time. .

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post #9 of 9
7/22/12 at 8:33am
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Originally Posted by Time-Out View Post

Ideally, you'd like them to lose between 12 and 16% of their starting weight by lockdown. If they don't lose enough, they die and if they lose too much they shrinkwrap and die too.

I didn't weigh my first batch, but I stuck to what must have been an ideal humidity as they all hatched. I'm sure yours will be fine too as long as you weren't running too low or too high for your area.

 

It's fun to weigh them as they incubate and see how they're doing. I was incubating 112 eggs (still got 8 left to hatch) in two incubators, so if some didn't lose enough, I'd move them all to the one incubator and set the humidity a bit lower so they'd catch up with the others. It kept me busy for 21 days, anyway!

Wow!  That's incredible!  I'll have to give that a try next hatch.

~Luke and Ali
Parents to a beautiful baby girl!  Jacquelyne Hope--born 5:03 pm--03/01/2012--9 lb. 9 oz--21.5 inches long
"Parents" to Missy (dog) and hatching 18 barnyard mutts due 07/08or09/12.

Currently on the warpath to hunt down whichever "upstanding citizen" stole my last 10 chicks out of their coop at 10 weeks old.  Be afraid. 

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~Luke and Ali
Parents to a beautiful baby girl!  Jacquelyne Hope--born 5:03 pm--03/01/2012--9 lb. 9 oz--21.5 inches long
"Parents" to Missy (dog) and hatching 18 barnyard mutts due 07/08or09/12.

Currently on the warpath to hunt down whichever "upstanding citizen" stole my last 10 chicks out of their coop at 10 weeks old.  Be afraid. 

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