8th-annual-byc-new-years-day-2017-hatch-a-long

[OneMountainAcres]

Hopefully I'll be joining. @ronott1 If you still need helpers let me know and I'll throw my name in the hat.

That is great! I have a great crew of helpers now but I will need judges for the contests. I will be getting those set up by Tomorrow. Soon we will be setting eggs!

X2! Need any help with anything, just ask!

 

[generaldsherman]

Will be setting the 4 duck eggs my runners have given the last 2 days in a couple of hours.

 

[Hinotori]

 
I'm here but i dont have any NNs 

and i cant set eggs, my hubby hid my bator :/

Well I think you need to bring a giant box in the house and tell him it's your new 200 egg cabinet incubator, but you're willing to take it back if he returns the old incubator.

 

[cree57i]

X2! Need any help with anything, just ask!

Here too! Just let me know!

 

[Cynthia12]

That golden neck D'U..is one of Dick Hortsman's. He has a lot of beautiful birds.

 

[acefaser]

I am so excited to be able to take part in this! How exciting. Now, keeping fingers crossed that I have better results than my first attempt- 2 out of 8. 

Going to re-plug in my bator and really figure out the temps etc.- of my 8 eggs, the two that hatched, hatched early. First one on day 19 and the second the night between 19 and 20. 

If you have any suggestions or advice, I am all ears!

There's a thread somewhere that tells you how to calibrate your incubator temperature. I don't know where it is but basically you just take modeling clay (I used silly putty). Put it in your incubator for about 8 hours or more then take an under the tongue thermometer you can buy at Walmart for less than $10 and see what the temperature of the clay is. These thermometers are calibrated within .3 of a degree or less at 100 degrees so they are very accurate to measure incubation temperature. Make sure you keep the clay in there at least for eight hours or more because it takes a while to heat internally.
If you have used the Ice Water method or boiling water method in the past that is fine for those temperatures. The problem is it's calibrated for either 32 or 112 degrees and can be way off at 100 degrees. I hope this helps.
Edit: you have to use modeling clay (or similar) because the thermometers for some reason won't measure water temperature.

 

[casportpony]

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What do golden neck d'Uccles look like? -Kathy

Very nice!

 

[meltel]

13 more serama and 1 SFH went in the bator this am...

Hopefully i'll unwrap some new babies on Christmas!

 

[Cynthia12]

Will be setting the 4 duck eggs my runners have given the last 2 days in a couple of hours.

 

[Cynthia12]

There's a thread somewhere that tells you how to calibrate your incubator temperature. I don't know where it is but basically you just take modeling clay (I used silly putty). Put it in your incubator for about 8 hours or more then take an under the tongue thermometer you can buy at Walmart for less than $10 and see what the temperature of the clay is. These thermometers are calibrated within .3 of a degree or less at 100 degrees so they are very accurate to measure incubation temperature. Make sure you keep the clay in there at least for eight hours or more because it takes a while to heat internally.
If you have used the Ice Water method or boiling water method in the past that is fine for those temperatures. The problem is it's calibrated for either 32 or 112 degrees and can be way off at 100 degrees. I hope this helps.
Edit: you have to use modeling clay (or similar) because the thermometers for some reason won't measure water temperature.

Wow, thank you, haven't heard of the clay use before. Will look up some others, but this is great.