4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[Countrypunk92]

We have White Orpington and some homemade Easter Eggers set to start hatching December 27. Not New Years day, but close!

WHITE ORPINGTONS!?!?!?!?!?!?

 

[TMNfarm]

Whats the volume of the water in the water bags.

I apologize - the explanation of a thermostat was a general thing - not directed at an individual and as far as being testy - I spent half the weekend on STEMI pts so I feel your pain.

Good luck. Stay calm and incubate on.

I have 3 ziplock sandwich bags (double bagged) full of water... Not sure what that would equal in volume. I checked it before I went to bed last night and the temp was 102.5. I'd say it had sat that way for 2-3 hours, so I turned it down another 1/2 turn... Haven't gotten down there yet to see what my temp is this morning...

 

[TMNfarm]

Whats the volume of the water in the water bags.

I apologize - the explanation of a thermostat was a general thing - not directed at an individual and as far as being testy - I spent half the weekend on STEMI pts so I feel your pain.

Good luck. Stay calm and incubate on.

I have 3 ziplock sandwich bags (double bagged) full of water... Not sure what that would equal in volume. I checked it before I went to bed last night and the temp was 102.5. I'd say it had sat that way for 2-3 hours, so I turned it down another 1/2 turn... Haven't gotten down there yet to see what my temp is this morning...

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Thanks will do!!!


Question: IS fresher better?? I have enough eggs as of today to set, but i will be getting more eggs tommmorow and tuesday morning, should i replace the fresher eggs with the eggs I picked last week? If i just kept the ones i have the oldest ones would be 6 days old. Am i making sense? Not sure... ahaha

Ummm, I believe the BYC by-laws require you to set any and ALL eggs with ANY possibility of viability. At least, this is how the PA Thread rolls.

 

[TMNfarm]

Sorry, is ended up double submitting that last one...

 

[SilkieSensation]

I'm wanting to incubate more eggs than what I have. I'd like to try store eggs but we don't have a traders Joe's around here and I haven't ever seen a carton of eggs marked fertile. Do you guys know of any other stores that may have them? Anything that I should look for?

If you have a local farm store (we have a cheese factory right up the road) they may sell fresh free-range eggs. You just have to ask them if they have roos ranging with their flock.

 

[CluckyCharms]

Thanks I ended up not putting a heat lamp out there, but I kept checking on them. I got 3 hours of sleep and they're still alive this morning so I guess they don't need a heat lamp. I'm so glad last night was expected to be the only night that cold for quite a while.

 

[TMNfarm]

This morning my bator is sitting at 100.6 with only a fluctuation down to 100.4 overnight... I gave it another 1/8 turn... Hopefully that puts me in that magic range, then I'm not touching it until I put my eggs in!

 

[ozexpat]

Hopefully that puts me in that magic range

Happiness is.....The magic range.

You better be nice to you bator now.

Happy hatching

 

[missydcpc]

Ummm, I believe the BYC by-laws require you to set any and ALL eggs with ANY possibility of viability. At least, this is how the PA Thread rolls.

I thought the PA thread said you had to find any and all eggs with in a 365 mile radius and set every single one of them (as long as you hadn't given/sold them to another Pennsylvanian)?