4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[mommaclucker]

Yeah they were shipped eggs but the air cells were intact when I received them they just look really funky like maybe the eggs had been sanded. I quess ill just have to wait another week and see what happens. I did have about 3 days where the humidity did dip down to 10 to 15 percent at night when we turned our heat on. I finally had to put a sponge in there to add water to just at night to maintain the humidity but I dont think that would have made much difference in the size of the air cell

 

[Shelshanam]

I'm getting very excited about the NYD hatch a long!

My turkey eggs are on their way, got my incubator all cleaned and sanitized and ready to go back to work.

I'm gonna assume that the humidity for turkey eggs is the same as chicken?

 

[crissycriss]

Oh id love a few turkey eggs.How much do the eggs sale for.

 

[janelle18]

I soak mine overnight in hot water & bleach with a little dishsoap added in & then rinse really well.

So for the top part that has the heating element. Do you just whip it with a similar solution or is it not as important because they chicks never touch it?

 

[cochins1088]

So for the top part that has the heating element. Do you just whip it with a similar solution or is it not as important because they chicks never touch it?

It's not as important, but I wipe the styrofoam around the heating element with warm water and a tiny bit of bleach. Make sure you leave it out in the sun or blow dry it and run it for a while after cleaning to get rid of any bleach fumes.

 

[RavenWood]

OMG We were on page 46 last time I was here a couple days ago ... now we are on 96? Holy cow. Am I the only person who works full-time?! LOL

 

[CluckyCharms]

OMG We were on page 46 last time I was here a couple days ago ... now we are on 96? Holy cow. Am I the only person who works full-time?! LOL

I work at home and I form my own hours. That being said, I also have the tendency to pull my hair out and race to BYC during the majority of that time. This thread and a lot of the other threads move at an alarming pace. If I see I've missed more than 40 posts I tend to just go to the last 2 pages; it's too hard to go back 40 posts, because I'm the overly analytical type. It takes me reading just one post five times to figure out what I think the poster was conveying. I then spend another 20 minutes wondering if what I'm thinking they were trying to convey is what they were actually trying to convey. After doing that, I re-evaluate the entire post all over again. Even after doing all this I am wrong at least 90% of the time. So no, I tend not to go back 40 posts.

 

[cluck-cluck]

Yikes!

I'm just like you all, wow, how did all these pages get here? Well, too busy today to keep up, but ooh, it's almost time to start (for chickens, LOL) Yes!

 

[SilkieSensation]

So for the top part that has the heating element. Do you just whip it with a similar solution or is it not as important because they chicks never touch it?

I wipe it down if needed but usually it's fine because, as you said, no eggs or chicks up there.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Yeah they were shipped eggs but the air cells were intact when I received them they just look really funky like maybe the eggs had been sanded. I quess ill just have to wait another week and see what happens. I did have about 3 days where the humidity did dip down to 10 to 15 percent at night when we turned our heat on. I finally had to put a sponge in there to add water to just at night to maintain the humidity but I dont think that would have made much difference in the size of the air cell

Often with shipped eggs, even if the air cells look fine at 1st it will become very apparent that there was damage during shipping as the air cells begin to enlarge. Anywhere that they have been loosened from the shell is where they will expand to 1st. This is what gives you the odd shaped air cell in so many shipped eggs or even in an egg that has just been handled a bit too roughly.