10+ Black Copper Maran Eggs

[Sportsterjeep]

MUST....NOT.....BID.....Oh crap

 

[sonew123]

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you can do it J!!! I think you can I think you can CHOOO CHOOOOO LOL

 

[sonew123]

how pathetic all us sharkies are scrambeling over eachothers eggs?? LOL

 

[Sportsterjeep]

Ok, Phage, I'm done. I thought that would outbid Nat just for fun, I was wrong.
ETA: C wants blue and splash ones, so if I won these she'd kill me anyway.

 

[sonew123]

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Im waiting for Phage to put up an auction!!!

 

[wooch]

I have one incubator, how hard is it to do a split hatch? Should I wait until the ones in there hatch before adding others? Thank you so much for your help, I am learning so much on BYC

 

[bigspringshatchery]

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Yes if you only have one you need to wait. Bc the last 3 days you don't turn the eggs and the other eggs would still need to be turned. That's why I had to by 3. Lol.

 

[Sportsterjeep]

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It depends on your incubator. I stagger hatch in my cabinet. If you have a small icubator, ie hova or lg, then you run into some hang ups. You can hand turn them when you put a group into lockdown. Doing that requires opening the incubator to turn the later batch, and this causes the humidity levels to drop each time when the batch in lockdown should be at a constant higher humidity. Leaving the turner in the bator would solve the turning issue, but then you run into problems of hatching chicks being stuck in the turners. I'm one of the people that puts eggs into lockdown and then doesn't open the door until the hatch is over. Every now and then I have to because of a problem with a chick hatching, but for a normal hatch the door stays closed to keep humidity up. My suggestion would be to borrow an incubator from somebody or buy a second one to use as a hatcher if you want to stagger hatch and have multiple set dates. I know that many people on here open up the smaller units all the time to grab chicks as they hatch and put them somewhere else to dry off and fluff up. I swear by my methods and they by theirs, its all in what works for you. If you do run a stagger hatch my suggestion would be to divide your incubator into two sections so the hatching chicks didn't knock around the developing ones. This can be as simplle as putting the hatching ones into a container they cant climb out of. Then you would open it to turn the eggs and grab the hatched chicks all in one swoop. My only concern with this is the possibility of shrink wrapping the hatching ones because you would have to open the bator several times a day. Some say this doesn't harm the hatching ones. I've opened the cabinet after a hatch to pull out the chicks and heard the crackle from the exposed egg membranes as they dried though.

 

[wooch]

Thank you so much, I will have to resist bidding on more eggs

 

[Sportsterjeep]

Hey look! Brindle came out to play too!