Recent content by adalau

I like that it's on wheels!

Allergies are mysterious. I believe 100% that the poster almost certainly reacted from nuts present in some slightly diluted form in those eggs. I also nursed a baby who very obviously reacted to certain foods that I ate and very obviously got dramatically better when I removed the offending...

Also, soy isoflavines have been shown to transfer from feed to the egg yolk. This is one of the reasons for the popularity of soy free feed. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11758913/

Best way to figure out for yourself is to try a soy free feed & see if you feel the same!

Well... I think I killed all my eggs. 😭 I got the ZooMed hygrometer/thermometer today. The humidity was right at about 35% in spite of what the wet bulb/dry bulb readings were. But, it said the temp was 107😱😭😭😭 The dry bulb thermometer was at 99. So at this point I am thinking & feeling that...

Thank you so much! I am stressing out! 😜

Thank you! That is helpful. The wick did dry out once, but it was before I had eggs in the incubator. It had been re-wet for a couple days when I put eggs in. Because of the design of the incubator I can’t really get the condensation out of the top of the incubator. Will it only go away if the...

So there is a wet bulb & a dry bulb in this incubator. The wet bulb temp is almost always considerably lower than the dry bulb temp. The incubator manual has this handy dandy chart that gives the dry bulb temp on one axis & the wet bulb on the other & the place they intersect is supposed to tell...

Thank you for trying! I do not get the wet bulb stuff either unfortunately. It all sounded so straightforward in the incubator manual! 😂

I did trace the air cell on the 3 eggs I weighed. After I read your first post and understood what I was aiming for with humidity I figured some sort of measurement to track change from would be helpful even if it wasn’t my pre-incubation baseline. I will candle & weigh them again on day 7...

Ok, I weighed 3 eggs tonight (I have 3 breeds in the incubator so one of each.) Is there an average number of grams per day of loss perhaps? I understand it is a percentage of the pre-incubation weight that is expected to be lost, buuuut I just wondered. I also candled the 3 I weighed & I think...

Thank you. That makes perfect sense. That article was helpful too. I didn’t know about weighing the eggs. I am in So Cal and it is dry here. I would still be interested in hearing from someone who has experience with this particular incubator as well.

This is my 1st hatch, due Father’s Day weekend. I need help! I’m having humidity issues with a brand new Lyon TurnX. Thank you. See my post in incubators for the full story: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/help-w-humidity-on-lyon-turn-x6.1382318/#post-22715146

Meh. Not really. I’m just waiting for the hygrometer to arrive. I’ve been taking the eggs out in the AM & PM & physically looking at the water level in the incubator. But I don’t really know what the “right” amount should be. There is still a little condensation on the top of the incubator so I...

Hey All, I need some help! I have a new Lyon Turn X6, I do not have the auto turner attachment. First attempt at hatching chickens. I have 18 eggs in the incubator, this is day 2. I cannot get the wet bulb reading to go below 87f. Yesterday evening had crept up to 92f. I used a paper towel to...