Recent content by amandam1903

Thank you, I was more leaning towards not feeding the medicated feed at all and doing exposures to dirt from day 12 (their age now). I am nervous about the thiamine deficiency with medicated feed.

Hello, your explanation was sooo helpful but I have a question: I hatched my chicks and they are 12 days old. We were going to take them out for little amounts of time starting today or tomorrow. Should I start medicated feed now since they didn't get dirt from a few days old? Or would following...

I just incubated 17 eggs, took 4 quitters out at lockdown and the eggs were very dark so a few I wasn't too sure about when I locked down. Anyways, 5 pipped on day 20 and we're hatched out in about 4 hours. I waited until day 22 and candled. 1 internally pipped, the others I wasn't sure. My...

I am excited to know how it goes. I am candling mine again tomorrow day 14 and hoping still kicking!

I checked it again today because I am terrified of an exploding egg and it seems good--I cannot visualize the crack so I believe we covered it well with wax. 😀

So cool! My crack is a hairline, so tiny. I'm going to candle again in a couple of days and if the crack is bigger maybe add polish too. 🤣

Did this work for you? I put candle wax on one of mine but now I'm thinking to do the polish.

Interesting! I am using the NR 360 along with that same thermometer you posted. I just added it on day 5 when I candled my eggs. NR was steady at 100.0 with humidity from 48-55 and 11/17 of my eggs looked good. But the thermometer is reading about 5 percent lower humidity and 1 degree temp...