2015 HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long, Join us IF YOU DARE!

[Sally Sunshine]

Thank you for your help @Sally Sunshine

sure!

Is there a chance that she got into a poison of some sort?

Just to be safe, check her environment for stuff like that.

thats what we are all thinking, we have searched and searched the woods and property, with leaves falling like mad its difficult. She could have gotten into the garbage at the party Sat night as well.

I did it! Not bad for just a smartphone so will capture her EEs when they start to zip. Time consuming but worth it! When I put them all together (the clips) I'll load them on youtube. Gonna take a few days and crossing my fingers I can catch the EEs actually going.................

We will do ours this weekend or never because my kids will be gone for Halloween.

They are leaving Monday with their dad to visit family in PA...Long road trip from CA. More than I can handle.

I'm so glad your dog is feeling better. I hope she stabilizes.

I cant wait to see them, I am going to let my kids use my dremel this year, its so less hazardess for them. I want to see what other bits they have for them though. They are headed our way in PA! that means they can send your Avy with them and drop him off for me! ha ha ha!! and Thank you she is doing amazingly well!

I'm having a small issue, I dumped all the water from my bator. The digital hygrometer is reading 38% and my other hygrometer (I'm pretty sure it reads low by at least 10%) reads 15% humidity. I'm on the hunt for a better hygrometer and the eggs have only been in about 4 hours. Am I safest leaving it be or adding water until I get an accurate hygrometer? These are brown/blue/olive eggs.

no biggy leave it go and let it dry out now. no need to panic, leave that for lockdown LOL you got this! wonder why the hygros are dif now? oh well you have plenty of time to figure them out now.

 

[Pyxis]

As of my day ten candling, all the eggs are still alive e I'm especially excited to see what the CCL/ayam cemani chick looks like. Still hoping for a pullet but I bet a rooster would be beautiful as an adult. The pullet laid another egg so I might toss it in with the next batch of ayam cemani eggs I do.

And the broody who has joined us is doing well too. One egg had a blood ring, but the other 16 are looking good!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

As of my day ten candling, all the eggs are still alive

I'm especially excited to see what the CCL/ayam cemani chick looks like. Still hoping for a pullet but I bet a rooster would be beautiful as an adult. The pullet laid another egg so I might toss it in with the next batch of ayam cemani eggs I do.

And the broody who has joined us is doing well too. One egg had a blood ring, but the other 16 are looking good!

oh thats AWESOME!!! so what will the mix look like? too lazy to go to my gen calculator, I dont think there are any on the ccl hybrid page is there? I havent been following along though... guilty

 

[Cynthia12]

Cynthia, what turner did you get to replace the old one. I don't have my turner clear full, but even with just 18 eggs, it seems to struggle a bit.

I just went to TSC and got theirs. A little giant one.

 

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[sonshine15]

Ron or Sally might help you better but I don't see them on here right now. I would leave it as is until you get a better hygrometer. Dry is safer.
Nothing wrong with 38%, or even 25% for now. Do you have an idea of your ambient humidity? Even a local weather report? (Or how I do it, how curly, straight or frizzy is my hair.....)

Am seriously losing my marbles now. Last hatch went great! Repeat same thing and this time burrito's all over the place!!! It's soooooooooooooooooooooooo much better when you don't have to mess with the babies. Two hatched perfect, another 12 pips and my two silkie eggs.........

So, here's what happened:
2 Babies and waiting on the EEs to film.
One large pipper close to the window and another one that started last night and most the rest had pips, (12 out of 18 total) looked GREAT!!!!
Wet membrane, fog on my lower window, etc. Same humidity as last hatch, and dry incubation ran 34-46 first 18 days @ 99-100.
(one exception...........could this cause this?? the young man who was supposed to be watching the bators let the temps go down to the upper 80s! and last hatch the babies were dying because he didnt check the bator temp, but still they are all ok)
The humidity was high enough I was a bit concerned for the two hatchlings but they were doing ok so I just kept going to check the membranes on the eggs I could see
I had pips all over the place!
A few hours ago? Lost track of time and the EEs marked shells I go check and the membranes are looking dry thru the pips. Like totally white dry.

I got my brooder ready, thought long and hard about this until I decided my first Silkie eggs were in there too. So I grabbed the two babies and both silkie eggs asap. I opened the top of the little eggs and they were shink wrapped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I grabbed the pipped eggs that the white membrane was showing and sure enough they were about to shrink to death too! I then repeated this till I have 10 burritos I am not happy about. So far in my hatches I've only had one I helped die but I dont like doing the helping any more. All of these had DRY BRITTLE HARD SHELLS, dry membrane both inner and outer

How can this happen when the windows are wet with humidity, the eggs are shiny and not open the bator even one time??

I have a heater in the room with them, the air humidity is 45% and I just do not get this in any way, shape or form. Not to sound cold hearted but seriously I have so much to get done today and burritos take a long time to get from bator to brooder

I keep going over and over this especially since the last

 

[ronott1]

Am seriously losing my marbles now. Last hatch went great! Repeat same thing and this time burrito's all over the place!!! It's soooooooooooooooooooooooo much better when you don't have to mess with the babies. Two hatched perfect, another 12 pips and my two silkie eggs.........

So, here's what happened:
2 Babies and waiting on the EEs to film.
One large pipper close to the window and another one that started last night and most the rest had pips, (12 out of 18 total) looked GREAT!!!!
Wet membrane, fog on my lower window, etc. Same humidity as last hatch, and dry incubation ran 34-46 first 18 days @ 99-100.
(one exception...........could this cause this?? the young man who was supposed to be watching the bators let the temps go down to the upper 80s! and last hatch the babies were dying because he didnt check the bator temp, but still they are all ok)
The humidity was high enough I was a bit concerned for the two hatchlings but they were doing ok so I just kept going to check the membranes on the eggs I could see
I had pips all over the place!
A few hours ago? Lost track of time and the EEs marked shells I go check and the membranes are looking dry thru the pips. Like totally white dry.

I got my brooder ready, thought long and hard about this until I decided my first Silkie eggs were in there too. So I grabbed the two babies and both silkie eggs asap. I opened the top of the little eggs and they were shink wrapped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I grabbed the pipped eggs that the white membrane was showing and sure enough they were about to shrink to death too! I then repeated this till I have 10 burritos I am not happy about. So far in my hatches I've only had one I helped die but I dont like doing the helping any more. All of these had DRY BRITTLE HARD SHELLS, dry membrane both inner and outer

How can this happen when the windows are wet with humidity, the eggs are shiny and not open the bator even one time??

I have a heater in the room with them, the air humidity is 45% and I just do not get this in any way, shape or form. Not to sound cold hearted but seriously I have so much to get done today and burritos take a long time to get from bator to brooder

I keep going over and over this especially since the last

The humidity at hatch will slow down the drying out of the membrane, not stop it. If a chick gets stuck, it will shrink wrap not matter how much humidity is in the incubator.

Temperature during incubation, health of flock, turning and the other things that make the chick develop well is more important than high humidity at hatch.

For the above reasons, I go for 60 to 65% humidity at lockdown--I do not worry if it is at 55% at first either. It will go up as each chick hatches.

Guess what the number one cause of stuck, sticky and shrink wrapped chicks is? Temps too low and then temps too high. If you get that one thing right, you will have good hatches.

 

[sonshine15]

The humidity at hatch will slow down the drying out of the membrane, not stop it. If a chick gets stuck, it will shrink wrap not matter how much humidity is in the incubator.

Temperature during incubation, health of flock, turning and the other things that make the chick develop well is more important than high humidity at hatch.

For the above reasons, I go for 60 to 65% humidity at lockdown--I do not worry if it is at 55% at first either. It will go up as each chick hatches.

Guess what the number one cause of stuck, sticky and shrink wrapped chicks is? Temps too low and then temps too high. If you get that one thing right, you will have good hatches.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So when it went down to the 80s in the bator then I put it back to normal when I got home it is likely the issue? My hens are all throwing good chicks. I only have one that doesn't go in the bator, she's got feather issues. Ok, back to the drawing board.........I think I can, I think I can..........wow is anyone else having these or had these issues when beginning?