6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[ronott1]

No inserts. I'll wash it up and give it a chance... Just because that hen is dead now, I'm strangely attached to these last 3 eggs... Be highly unlikely any are viable but we shall see on the 18th...
Thanks again Ron
Indeed!

The is always hope!

 

[hennible]

The is always hope!

x a bunch!

 

[bamadude]

I have read about people putting fingernail polish on the spot where its leaking

 

[hennible]

Huh, how about coloured? Never mind mom must have clear... Thanks

 

[bamadude]

If u have ever had a bad egg explode in your incubator....u would throw that 1 out. Funky exploded egg stinks like nothing else. Just my opinion

 

[hennible]

I know it's a risk... Just a few more days... It is just sentimental she was my favourite hen... I've opened rotten eggs... There is no way to describe that smell... -gag- -hork-

 

[Aphrael]

I picked up some batteries while I was out today and snapped a few pics of my incubator.

















The handle is my semi-auto turner. I can turn all the trays at once without opening the incubator. The funnel and tube puts water in my top pan. I still haven't figured out the best placement for other water trays. The egg trays are ugly, and I'm not happy with them. But I plan to make better ones as soon as I can.

Checked the 18 eggs that were questionable at day 7 and culled 15 of them. 7 of them were clears (I'm guessing infertile) and the other 8 were very early quitters. Not too bad considering I've got massive molting going on, I JUST went back to FF a week before starting to gather them, and a bunch of them are young pullet eggs. So I was expecting some pretty heavy cull numbers.

 

[hennible]

Nice incubator!

 

[Aphrael]

Nice incubator!

Thank you! I'm pretty proud of most of it (except those egg trays

). I have worked really hard on it. I still have some small things to do, like mounting drawer slides and maybe pulls for the hatching trays and some kind of housing for the thermometer readouts.

 

[hennible]

It looks like it was a big project you should be really proud!