The Ameraucana Thread: Where everything and anything about the breed can be discussed (APA, Non-Stan

[cgmaster]

Dang! Such a shame on the eggs.

What happened with the Wheatens?


For hatching..... I find increasing the nutrition of the breeders, about a week before starting to gather eggs to incubate, helps. I like to use nutritional yeast as the boost for my breeders.

I gave the pair back to the person I got them from and my other male was killed by a dog.
My trouble has been the fact that my Temps in the incubator would fluctuate from 95 degrees to 129 degrees with eggs in there, but it stayed constant without eggs

 

[Alaskan]

Temps fluctuating like that woukd most certainly kill the eggs!!!

My last 'bator hatch my old eyes didn't focus right. I thought I had set it on 99.9, but I had set it on 99.2 and so out of three dozen, almost all of which started to develop.....only one hatched.

 

[cgmaster]

Temps fluctuating like that woukd most certainly kill the eggs!!!

My last 'bator hatch my old eyes didn't focus right. I thought I had set it on 99.9, but I had set it on 99.2 and so out of three dozen, almost all of which started to develop.....only one hatched.

my last batch were all fertile too, but both of my incubators are cheap crappy ones, I think I hatched more eggs with my homemade one lol. And that one was just a Styrofoam cooler insulated with foil and heated by a lightbulb

 

[Alaskan]

Sounds to me like you need to go back to the homemade one!

 

[cgmaster]

Sounds to me like you need to go back to the homemade one!

if only it could fit my Turner in it and wasn't taken apart to hatch snake eggs in it this last summer

 

[Alaskan]

Ah! Fascinating! (Hatching snakes), and yes, turners are nice.

 

[cgmaster]

Yeah, it was cool, they literally hatched at the room temperature we keep the house at,I can't wait to actually hatch some chickens again though

 

[bruceha2000]

I gave the pair back to the person I got them from and my other male was killed by a dog.
My trouble has been the fact that my Temps in the incubator would fluctuate from 95 degrees to 129 degrees with eggs in there, but it stayed constant without eggs

You need a broody hen, they always set the proper temperature!

 

[jerryse]

I gave the pair back to the person I got them from and my other male was killed by a dog.
My trouble has been the fact that my Temps in the incubator would fluctuate from 95 degrees to 129 degrees with eggs in there, but it stayed constant without eggs

You probably need a new wafer . That is if it uses a wafer . That is the only reason for it to have such a large flucuation in temp .

 

[cgmaster]

You probably need a new wafer . That is if it uses a wafer . That is the only reason for it to have such a large flucuation in temp .

one is digital, the other is older and I'm not sure what it uses, I think they are both little giants