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http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/Avian/pfs33.htm Here is a handy reference list for sleuthing what went wrong with your hatch. I need to study it to soak it all in. Pretty good stuff. I think mine is a combo of temps and humidity. But that temp drop the last 2 days did not help. I will...

Here is my consolation prize since none of the chicks made it to hatch out: Lady Gwen was born on Sunday 3/25/12 at 2 pm.

No cheeps, no pips, nothing!! they were set at 4 pm so this afternoon is day 22 and I'm pretty sure all those rockers died after putting them down into the hatching drawer on my cabinet unit. I just don't understand......so depressed.

I just wanted to say that out of 39 eggs set, 6 made it to lockdown. About half were clear and the other half had quitters in them at the 11-18 day stage as the embryos were all at least an inch or so big. One quit later as it was half the shell size. One was white, hmmm, maybe that silkie...

ok, I have a question... How do you do multiple hatches in the same incubator? I have a shelf going off Saturday and one the following Saturday. So the first hatch will be taking out the turner and laying those eggs flat while the other shelf keeps turning. But I will be bumping humidity to...

On calibrating the hygrometer, what do you do if it is off? Buy another one? I have Accurite brand and it seems to work alright. I have a barometer, temp/humidity gauge outside of the bator we have had for years and the Accurite seems to read the same when it is outside as it does, so I'm...

Workers ethics vary at all businesses. Our local TSC is pretty good and they do a fair job with the chicks. Now they are all fenced off so we can't go pick them up and chase them. I am thinking some customers were putting chicks in their pockets and walking off with them last year. Mt Healthy...

BTW, I'm getting 5 gallon buckets from the hardware store with lids and setting them up on a couple of 2x4 braces so they stay in place and don't roll around. Will cut a hole in the lid for the hen to go in and out and get some pine shavings. I'm hoping they will take to it. If they really like...

Well, Saturday was day 7 for me and I tried to candle in a dark closet with strong funneled light and cannot see into those dark painted welsummer eggs. So back in they went. I forgot to weigh them, so I will do that today. Yesterday, I also added 16 more eggs, but that is going to be a...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/491013/goose-incubation-hatching-guide-completed What goes on internally applies to all and he throws in a couple things to the chicken people so we aren't being ignored. Very nice photos of inside of eggs from candling!!

I just read pete55 thread post on the goose thread and his incubation report was published this winter in the UK poultry magazine. Most of it is on his thread. Lots of photos of developing eggs, air sacs and explanations of what is going on inside the egg. The only part I don't really...

My humidity is stable with the light bulbs and the thermostat clicks on and off at 1 degree or so. It is the same wafer thermostat that is sold by GFQ with a switch that engages when the wafers swell with heat and turns the bulbs on and off. It isn't the wider range hot water heater thermostat...

Mohillbilly, I have a question for you as you have built incubators for so long and have good experience hatching. I read this whole thread and the dry incubation article here on BYC. I have a custom incubator with hatching drawer, 3 shelves and above that are 2 100 watt light bulbs in front...