Anyone Setting Eggs Tonight 3/31/2011 - Come join me if you like!

[scrambledmess]

Yep, have temp fluctuations here too. I told my husband before I left for work to NOT close the bathroom door. I come home. Bathroom door is closed. Bathroom is cold. Temp in bator down to 97

I had to confess to him just how much those eggs cost and he better leave the freaking door open!

LOL No stress or over reaction here!

 

[artathart]

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That is too funny because I said almost the same thing today. My husband gave me a hard time for spending so much time obsessing over the incubator temps. I said, Do you even know how much those eggs cost? He shook his head and said he didn't want to know so he kinda assumed they were pricey. This is also why I am going nutz. My eggs were $42 for 21 eggs and got 5 additional so 26 total and I cannot bare to lose $42 in eggs! I am soooooooo getting the-http://www.brinsea.com/prod-Ova_Easy_190_Advance_Cabinet_Incubator-226.aspx

Or a R-Com 20 incubator. I know the first one is expensive, but the next model down is http://www.brinsea.com/prod-Octagon_20_ADVANCE_digital_egg_incubator-210.aspx for $299. I figure if I am going to pay that much, I should go all out with no regrets as to "Should I have gotten the best one they had"? Maybe I can place it on my birthday wish list. I will makde do with the one I have for now. If it does not hatch out any eggs....I will not need to sell it on craigslist as suggested by someone else. I will be returning it to TSC since I will be well within the 20 day return policy.
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[artathart]

I remember what it was. I asked my husband to bring in friewood and he didnt want to and I stressed about keeping the temp up in the house for the eggs and then he gave me a hard time and I explaned how much the eggs cost and how important it was not to lose them!!!

 

[scrambledmess]

LOL I haven't picked out my birthday incubator present yet, but I have seriously been considering saying that is what I want too! Very funny, indeed!

 

[petunias212]

I'm with you both - Come June I'm getting a Brinsea because it's impossible to sleep well or do anything with the constant worry that I'm going to find my precious babies scrambled or fried!

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I have bee holding at 100.6 for about 2 hours and now out of now where its at 101.5 which is still fine for now. But I have already decided that I am going to buy a a digital incubator.

artathart: I agree! I am going to buy a Brinsea Octa Eco with turner for my next hatch, this is ridiculous chasing these temps, LOL.....

 

[JD]

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I have only one hen that layes those pretty blues and now she has stopped laying. So I know these are fertile since she was penned with a rooster. The other EE I have lay semi blue or blue/greenish eggs. I sure hope they hatch. I'm using a r-com King Suro 20 for the 2nd year. I have a Canon Power Shot SD960 IS ELPH camera. It's a good camera but not the best. I had to set it at the ISO 3200 setting then doctored it with the lighting on Paint.net program which is a free program.

 

[Trinity Oaks]

We set 30 Black and Blue Copper Marans and 24 Wheaton Americanas on the same day. All the eggs are from our own flock and this is the first bator batch we've done this season.

Looking forward to a new round of chickens soon.

 

[chickflick247]

Day 2 and hoping everything is going ok for everyone. I woke up this morning under 99.5 deg.

I was told with a still air bator the temps should be 1 to 3 degrees higher.

When is everyone going to candle. I think I'll wait til day 10. Is this Ok or have you heard something different?

 

[emmalynn]

I set 13 Welsummer, 18 silkie, 4 barnevelder, have Sebastopol goose eggs in the other incubator, and will have 18+ BBS Ameruacanas here tomorrow. I set on 4/01 and will be doing a staggered hatch. May buy a 3rd incubator just to have a separate hatcher. I usually do that with the 2nd one but couldn't wait for the geese to finish hatching before buying eggs.

Ya'll take a deep breath....breathe in, out, in, out....hatching gets easier and you get calmer the more you do it. My incubator is on about 9 mos of the year for the past 3 years. So far we have had 12 hatches this year. I use the common Hovabator with a fan and turner. I open it everyday to moisten sponges and verify good temps. You can have an egg out 10 min at a time and it won't make much difference. You actually need to take goose eggs out everyday after day 5 and let them cool, mist them, and put them back in. Hens get off the nest to eat, drink, etc before going back to the nest box. Ya'll are being great chicken moms!!

Good luck with your hatches. They will turn out fine.

 

[MountainChickenMama]

I have been candling, way to much I think, but it is killing me to know if they are fertile or not.....I have no veining and they are almost 4 days in the incubator, so I am losing hope.....