11 are out 12 to go!, pictures later my day 21 for the last bunch is friday, they almost always hatch 2 days early, so im looking at the rest to pip in 2 days...
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11 are out 12 to go!, pictures later my day 21 for the last bunch is friday, they almost always hatch 2 days early, so im looking at the rest to pip in 2 days...
that's sweet of the hubby. Good luck!!The hubby said he will replace the wafer thermostat with a digital one after this hatch...if I dont cook my chicks before they hatch.
Yea, that is a great idea. As a test of my cockerels fertility I put one of my hens eggs in the incubator to see if anything came of it. I did this on day 5 of my other eggs. I candled it on day 4 and see veins and an air pocket! But now what shall I do with it when my other six eggs go into lockdown??
11 are out 12 to go!, pictures later my day 21 for the last bunch is friday, they almost always hatch 2 days early, so im looking at the rest to pip in 2 days...
11 are out 12 to go!, pictures later my day 21 for the last bunch is friday, they almost always hatch 2 days early, so im looking at the rest to pip in 2 days...
Well my first hatch was a blazing failure, with the exception of two adorable Lavender Ameraucana chicks. Out of 50+ eggs and $150+ in the cost of eggs for that first batch, I'm a little disappointed. I consoled myself with a pair of Cuckoo Orps that I'd been wanting.
Rounds 2 and 3 are in the bators now, and if these are as much of a failure, I'm going to pack the darn incubators up and send them to someone else.
This time I'm going to try to keep a far more even temperature - I'm using Oregon Scientific digital units that provide temperature and humidity levels and I've checked those to be fairly accurate with some of those aquarium thermometers and a reptile thingy-bobber. I wonder if on the last hatch, I just tinkered with it too darn much.
Question for you all - what are you running humidity at during your incubation (prior to lockdown)? I didn't adjust it at all on my first hatch - I really just tried to watch the air cells and didn't even add any humidity until lockdown. I'm wondering if I should try to maybe keep the humidity up a little bit more this time?
The strange part is that when my husband looked inside my flunker eggs, they seemed to fail at different stages... I had some early failures in some Marans (couldn't see inside those so didn't pull them) and some later failures in a couple of gorgeous Silkies. Hearing about those broke my heart.
PS - HUGE hugs to chickydee64. You are a treasure. Thank you for your kindness. xoxo