I know this is an old post but I just happened upon it and wanted to correct some misleading info. Chili is not spanish for pepper. Pimienta is the spanish word for pepper and chili refers to HOT peppers.
I respect your right to your opinion. Isn't it great that we all have that right? Please don't take this personal because I'm just trying to illustrate a point. This very attitude is why we find our world full of the toxic things that you mention. Sure! It's just chemicals on an egg shell...
I understand the other person's concern. These tests don't tell the whole story. What about the gases from the alcohol and glycol, both toxic substances, and something that's very obvious just as soon as you remove the lid from a marker? Just because the egg hatches doesn't necessarily mean...
I'm not trying to be a jerk chrspdv. I'm just telling the other side of the story so people don't go out and poison themselves thinking it's safe to use because someone said they use it all the time with no ill affects. People should get both sides of the story and because I choose to disagree...
I agree with you that eating McDonald's is bad. I think that eating anything that's processed is bad but eating poison, and knowing what it could be doing to our bodies and our offspring, is far worse. It's been shown that many kids with asthma had moms that smoked during pregnancy. There's...
Hopefully your kids and grandkids won't be affected by it down the road. Not everything that's hazardous to us has an immediate effect. That's why cancer has now surpassed heart disease as the number 1 killer in America.
If you have a set up that reads both temp and humidity with just one piece and you put the whole thing in the incubator then you're fine as long as you can see it. If you have one that is 2 pieces and measures outdoor and indoor temperature but only indoor humidity, the sensors are located in...
It has to have the ability to read both inside and outside humidity as well as temperature. The ones that read indoor humidity and temp only have the sensor in the display unit. The ones that read both have a separate sensor that goes outside but just because it has a separate sensor doesn't...
The humidity in my incubator started out around 25% for about the first week and then dropped off to 16% for the rest of the duration. I bumped it up to 60% at lockdown and so far they've done okay.
I'm just throwing this out there for you or anyone else that may not know this but if you use a digital thermometer/hygrometer combo, it must have the capability of displaying both indoor and outdoor humidity. If it's indoor only, it's reading the humidity in the room where the incubator is...
It looks like the sponges hold the humidity for about 24 hours and then it begins to drop off. I have 7 of 12 that have hatched so far and another one that has pipped. Just a while ago the humidity, which was at 58% when I got up this morning, had dropped to 46% so I added another sponge...
I could see where it would be difficult to not help. Personally, I look at it as survival of the fittest and won't interfere. If I end up with 7 out of 12 then that's 7 more than I had before I started.
I've got 7 chicks (FBCM) in the bator right now and another one pipped. Before I bought...
I'm having my first hatch right now and one thing I've been told by people who have been hatching for many years is that the more you mess with them during hatching, the lower the hatch rate. I had 3 hatch last night (day 20) and 3 today so far with a couple more that have pipped. I'm leave...
I would trust a good digital thermometer before I would a glass one. Glass thermometers should be calibrated to a thermometer that you know to be correct by sliding it up or down on the plate it's attached to.