➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[BantyChooks]

REAL PIPPERS!??!?!
No way!
Already?

Yes. Over half of them. A few more are internaled and the remaining few are drawn down and wiggling like crazy.

 

[room onthebroom]

Blue cheese is the one that smells like vomit right?

Yep.

 

[Kiki]

Yep.

The Mex put that crap on his steak last night.
It gags me.

 

[Kiki]

 

[el dorado quail]

I'm getting 3 different humidity readings from 3 diff hygrometers. What's the best one that I can calibrate?

 

[el dorado quail]

Actually if anyone has advice on how to use "dry bulb" with a wick to measure humidity? This one has that kind of system. I just now found instructions but for a way different model. But it is confusing. I'll post pics in the morning if I can rememberrrr. Aviary is just lacking a roof and staples/screws here and there. Will be completed just in time to release 3 week olds and start incubating this next batch of 120

 

[007Sean]

I'm getting 3 different humidity readings from 3 diff hygrometers. What's the best one that I can calibrate?

Use the one that when you calibrate it, is closest to the mean standard. In other words the one closest to reading 75% when salt test calibrated.

 

[007Sean]

Actually if anyone has advice on how to use "dry bulb" with a wick to measure humidity? This one has that kind of system. I just now found instructions but for a way different model. But it is confusing. I'll post pics in the morning if I can rememberrrr. Aviary is just lacking a roof and staples/screws here and there. Will be completed just in time to release 3 week olds and start incubating this next batch of 120

Wet/dry bulb thermometers can be highly accurate. You will need to get a chart (look up tables)off the internet that will allow you to figure out what percent humidity it is reading. They are a little more finicky and temperamental but a good one is worth its weight. Also you will need to watch the water level in the reservoir, not let it dry out. Keep the wick clean, too! Dirty wicks will give a false reading. I have several antique wet/dry thermometers and just plain wet bulb thermometers for humidity. I use them in my cabinet incubators, they are too big for foam bators.

ETA - auto correct got me again, dirty wicks not forty wicks.

 

[el dorado quail]

Wet/dry bulb thermometers can be highly accurate. You will need to get a chart (look up tables)off the internet that will allow you to figure out what percent humidity it is reading. They are a little more finicky and temperamental but a good one is worth its weight. Also you will need to watch the water level in the reservoir, not let it dry out. Keep the wick clean, too! Dirty wicks will give a false reading. I have several antique wet/dry thermometers and just plain wet bulb thermometers for humidity. I use them in my cabinet incubators, they are too big for foam bators.

ETA - auto correct got me again, dirty wicks not forty wicks.

Thanks Sean! Wicks are clean and I think I found a chart. This particular incubator is from my friend who used to hatch exotic birds so I'm sure it's legit. She just didn't have the instructions or remembers quite exactly how everything works (it sat in a box for 15 yrs!). But temp calibration has been spot on since Monday.

 

[BantyChooks]

No Button chicks yet. I want nothing more than to simply crack those little buggers open and pull them out.