3rd Annual New Year's Day Hatch!!

[9Catsz]

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I only set my own eggs that are clean, but I just received some that have a lot more 'dirt' on them than I'd ever set if my ladies laid them, but since I bought them they all went into the bator. Does the amount of dirt on an egg affect the hatch rate? I hope not because my luck with shipped eggs is already abysmal.

 

[yinepu]

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I got a Reptipro 5000 for christmas (ordered it a bit late so it got here last week).. it didn't want to heat; so apparently something happened to it in transit.
Anyway they shipped a replacement out as soon as they got my email.. so the eggs I had slated to go in it had to go in my 2 Brinseas were I had the quail eggs.. the quail eggs moved to a beat up LG that I had borrowed from a friend (hate that beast but it works ok here in the winter).
The reason I wanted the Reptipro is because it also cools.. and with the heat we get here in Texas in the summer I need an incubator that can keep eggs cool in summer. Last summer it was a challenge keeping the bators cool and we even had duck eggs incubating right out on the kitchen counter without ever seeing the inside of an incubator.

Last time I checked there were 12 quail out.. 66 more to go

I have two of these and they are great. I was having to keep the incubators in my office with the air conditioning but know I can keep them in one of the back rooms. It was brutal here last summer

Let's hope it's cooler this summer

For lock down I use the shelf liner and a strip of duck tape at the front of the shelf and you don't have to worry about the chicks falling down in front

yeah.. last summer was horrible.. I do love the heat.. but that was overkill

 

[yinepu]

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Yeahhhhh

Go chickies goooooo

at least another dozen have hatched.. need to move them to the brooder and will do a head count when i do

 

[yinepu]

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Not yet

That's me wore out from running back and forth

I'll go check again

Still no but I'm sure they will

They had perfect air cells when I locked them down and were moving and active soooo

 

[debs_flock]

About 24 hours after pipping, #12 zipped and popped out of the shell in about 10 minutes flat!

Deb

 

[gryeyes]

So, I only have four more days to wait for chicks. My own fault. BUT it will give y'all something to do OTHER than just admire your nearly week old chicks when MINE start to pip and zip!!

I so totally love participating in these major, annual Hatches! I love the narratives, the "pop in to catch up and pass on some personal life moments. I love all the pictures! (Even the sad ones - they are instructional. I do love to learn.)

Wow, it's a "love" day, this first day of 2012, isn't it?!?!?

 

[9Catsz]

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Yes it is.

 

[Melissa Rose]

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I only set my own eggs that are clean, but I just received some that have a lot more 'dirt' on them than I'd ever set if my ladies laid them, but since I bought them they all went into the bator. Does the amount of dirt on an egg affect the hatch rate? I hope not because my luck with shipped eggs is abysmal.

If you hand turn becareful that you pick the egg up totally to turn it. If you scratch or rub the egg I think you can contaminate the egg from the outside. Not sure how true this is but it's just something I've been taking notice of

 

[Melissa Rose]

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Are you joining Mr. Hienz's Valentine thread? Here are the cards for the funny picture contest

 

[9Catsz]

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Thanks for the tip. I hadn't thought about that aspect of it. I do hand turn and it does rub the egg on the wire....but with these shipped eggs I put them in a cut down egg carton with the air cells up so they won't be rubbed. I am, however, gonna be extra careful with turning them on the wire from now on.