Anyone setting eggs starting July 15 -July 22?

[matlock585]

It's just harder all together in the hottest part of the summer. I'm so sad to hear about so many sets of eggs just going wrong. You just have to remember though, that incubation isn't the most natural thing in the world, and it's a hobby that is wrought with peril. Even with the most expensive incubators on the market, your trying to mimic Mother Nature.
Unless your hatching your own eggs, it's just easier not to expect a great hatch. Shipped eggs in high heat are somewhat fated. I tend to put them straight on in the bator fat end up when I have them shipped in hot weather. I just don't turn them that first 24 hours. It's worked out pretty well for me.

 

[ChicksinPR]

My PR Game hen just started laying and my EE/ Hatchery Ameraucanas are mating. So maybe in a few more weeks I will have my own eggs to incubate. I know that mating isn't a sign of egg laying...but I would assume it is a sign of maturity.


I hope everyone is having better luck..

 

[localcommotion42]

Candled my eggs (Week 1) Everybody is fertile and healthy! Wahoo!

Now, if I can get them all to hatch....

 

[Roxannemc]

Really scared with this heat.
Bought boocoo eggs and one bunch rare and acuton someone wantethem as badly as i did...cost me a LOT.
Dumb to do that this time of year but did have the breeders put cold packs in with all the eggs.The cold packs were all melted but cool when i got the eggs but the eggs seemed to all come pretty cool ,However it could have been the postmans air conditioned vehicle kept the cool cto the house its the dang trucks that are thin metal and get 130 that i worry about
.Gues i will find out candling on day 10 ow it went.
Feel as if i was at a casino ...lucky if you get some for your money and VERY lucky if its pretty many! BUt can be a total bust too easily.

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[Roxannemc]

Really scared with this heat.
Bought boocoo eggs and one bunch rare and an auction someone wanted them as badly as i did...cost me a LOT.
Dumb to do that this time of year but did have the breeders put cold packs in with all the eggs.The cold packs were all melted but cool when i got the eggs but the eggs seemed to all come pretty cool ,However it could have been the postmans air conditioned vehicle kept the cool to the house. Its the dang nab it trucks that are thin metal and get 130 that i worry about
.Guess i will find out candling on day 10 how it went.
Feel as if i was at a casino ...lucky if you get some for your money and VERY lucky if its pretty many! BUt can be a total bust too easily.

.

 

[Roxannemc]

Candled my eggs (Week 1) Everybody is fertile and healthy! Wahoo!

Now, if I can get them all to hatch....

Congrats on first week success!! You are 1/3 of the way to the finish line... GOOD LUCK!

 

[Roxannemc]

It's just harder all together in the hottest part of the summer. I'm so sad to hear about so many sets of eggs just going wrong. You just have to remember though, that incubation isn't the most natural thing in the world, and it's a hobby that is wrought with peril. Even with the most expensive incubators on the market, your trying to mimic Mother Nature.
Unless your hatching your own eggs, it's just easier not to expect a great hatch. Shipped eggs in high heat are somewhat fated. I tend to put them straight on in the bator fat end up when I have them shipped in hot weather. I just don't turn them that first 24 hours. It's worked out pretty well for me.

 

[Roxannemc]

I can only answer by my own experience, yes I have a seperate incubator that is just a hatcher, but I also have in the past locked eggs down 2 days early and they hatched fine, and as far as using a turner, I get better hatches when I hand turn and keep everything on their sides the whole way thru, I only use the turner when I run a second incubator, (hand turning is very time consuming). I see you use 75% humidity, I can not go that high or I get alot of dead in the shell chicks, I keep mine between 60 and 65%. I also dry incubate up untill lockdown I add no water but my house is often humid and the incubator stays wothin 35 to 40%.....It took awhile to find what works for me and everyone seems to do it differently,...Not sure if it makes a difference but my incubators are kept in an unused bedroom and I monitor the room humidty in the summertime when the room gets humid I go to the dollar store and get a container of damprid and set it in the room, it helps me to keep the humidity stable .....addicting YES very, that is how I got started selling chicks to local feed stores, I had to find an outlet for everything I hatch..The feed stores are supplied with a list of breeding stock that I have, when they have a customers that wants specific chicks they let me know and I set the eggs.

Thanks for the information.VERY helpful.
I am turning most by hand now and have 14 in the turner too.See what works.My room humidity with the air on is about 45-50 so ok there doesnt effect much in the bator i guess..I have the bators at 40-50 % this time too.
i tryed the dry hatch last time.25-40% Was so hopeful Sadly didnt work for me.
Read you get a higher hatch but the few chicks i had going well died but one at about 17-20th day fully grown but didnt hatch ..AND little guy trying didnt hatch, just pipped turned away from the pip hole died that night
.Dont know why but wonder if i shrink wrapped him with the lower humidity...HOPE NOT!!
Hovabator "trouble shooter" paper said humidity too low if your chicks die at the end before born.
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So i am going by the book this time sort of. 75-80 might be too high but many articles says its the right one and a friend with with a few very successful hatches said to use that humidity.So I'll try it.
However it does say error on the side of,.... LOW! I went 65 last time on lockdown.
So much controversial information.
Long short Certainly is what your house allows you to do,I guess.

So i will try and stay in the middle if possible. This is all so tedious!

 

[Easter eggers]

Candeled last night found one with a blood ring so down to 15

 

[Jeanette56]

I had my first experience with shipped eggs this spring. Wish I knew then what I know now!

I did wind up with 2 chicks, and a pair at that

but they were definitely and expensive pair!

Really scared with this heat.
Bought boocoo eggs and one bunch rare and acuton someone wantethem as badly as i did...cost me a LOT.
Dumb to do that this time of year but did have the breeders put cold packs in with all the eggs.The cold packs were all melted but cool when i got the eggs but the eggs seemed to all come pretty cool ,However it could have been the postmans air conditioned vehicle kept the cool cto the house its the dang trucks that are thin metal and get 130 that i worry about
.Gues i will find out candling on day 10 ow it went.
Feel as if i was at a casino ...lucky if you get some for your money and VERY lucky if its pretty many! BUt can be a total bust too easily.

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