Anyone up for a Hatchalong?

[yinepu]

how can i get humidity to lower in my incubator? i dont have any water in there..

I may have missed it if you posted it.. but what's your humidity reading right now with no water in the bator?

 

[gunnarwordon]

Anybody willing to sell me a chick and ship to NY?

 

[birdbrain5]

hey! yes this is a great thread.. yes i wanted to pick them up because i havent had the greatest luck with shipped chicken eggs in the past. i figured if im spending so much for these eggs i really want the best chance for them to hatch. we had to go up that way for another errand so it ended up being a day trip (2 hour ride to hidden view) but seeing the birds and talking to them was well worth going to get them. they printed me out the incubating and hatching chapter of the emu farmers hand book so thats a great reference too.
I wieghed them all lastnight, and i will again before i put them in. i would have liked to already have them in the bator but i had to go get another thermometer and hygrometer, now realize my bottom rack is only reaching 95 degrees while my top rack is 97.9.. im trying to tweak it so they are closer. i might have to move the bottom rack up which will make it tight but in the meantime im going to work on my hovabator so i can transfer them in there for hatching.
egg 1: 608g
egg 2: 500g
egg 3: 665g
egg 4: 514g
i will post back if the weights changes before i set them in now that they have been room temp overnight.
ive got to flip through that handout she gave me, it has all the equasions and whatnot so im hoping this weight loss stuff is easy enough. i am sooo not a math person lol.

too bad we didnt live closer! im 23, and ive got a 17 month old boy. i see your 21 and have young kiddies too! hard to find people my age around here and especially people who dont roll thier eyes and think im crazy for incubating EMU eggs in a MINI FRIDGE lol! too funny

Hey

I replied to your other post a little bit ago, I'm glad you joined this thread. I learned a lot from just reading the posts & by asking others questions, it makes a big difference when people don't care to help you learn or solve your issues...if you trust your hovabator more than the other one, you can make a couple adjustments & use it for emu eggs. Yinepu & I'm pretty sure atleast another member are using Little Giants to incubate them, the Hova 1588 & LG are I think similar enough to work the same. If you go a few pages back I believe yinepu posted a pic of the LG with modifications & said what was done, it could be on the Reptipro Hatch-A-Long thread in the hatching eggs sec:/tion? I can't remember but if you can't find it I'll find it for ya.
It will be a lot funner knowing a member on here with almost the same hatch date will be close to where I am. I set all 5 on the 3rd so mine are on day 3 & then I guess due March 27-28? Do I go 52 days later to figure the approximate hatch date or do you all determine it differently?
BirdBrain, if you don't mind could you post what your 4 weighed initially, I like reading how everyone's eggs lose weight & how much...is around 2% lost a week what you want & how much total loss, 13%? I can't find where I thought I read that :/ow
That's good you got to pick yours up, with all the scrambled chicken eggs I've been getting lately I wanted at least some of them unshipped, gives me a little more confidence that they could hatch. I don't understand the USPS, some eggs come in perfect shape-great hatches, then the next week from the same breeder/packaging they bring me 48 out of 51 eggs scrambled or cracked...some mysteries will never be solved

 

[birdbrain5]

well i calibrated my hygrometer and it read 65% when it should have read 75%, so i guess its 10 points off. i dont remember it being so many points off last year. im going to recalibrate it again tomorrow. its reading 20% so i guess its really at 30% which isnt bad. lastnight it was reading higher so im going to keep an eye on it, and i picked up another hygrometer today so after i calibrate that ill see what its reading.

such stress! lol

I may have missed it if you posted it.. but what's your humidity reading right now with no water in the bator?

 

[yinepu]

well i calibrated my hygrometer and it read 65% when it should have read 75%, so i guess its 10 points off. i dont remember it being so many points off last year. im going to recalibrate it again tomorrow. its reading 20% so i guess its really at 30% which isnt bad. lastnight it was reading higher so im going to keep an eye on it, and i picked up another hygrometer today so after i calibrate that ill see what its reading.

such stress! lol

if it's hitting around 20 - 30% don't add any water for now.. weigh your eggs and see what they weigh after one day of incubation..
By the book.. the goal to shoot for would be 15% overall loss during the entire incubation.. depending on how much weight the eggs lose you may have to add a little water if the weight loss is too great

lol.. did the math for ya.. (based on 15% and assuming the starting weight stays the same)

egg 1: 608g 91.2 grams to lose during 50 days of incubation at 97.5 degrees.. 1.824 grams per day or 12.768 grams per week

egg 2: 500g 75 grams to lose during 50 days of incubation at 97.5 degrees.. 1.5 grams per day or 10.5 grams per week

egg 3: 665g 99.75 grams to lose during 50 days of incubation at 97.5 degrees.. 1.995 grams per day or 10.5 grams per week 13.9965 (14) grams per week

egg 4: 514g 77.1 grams to lose during 50 days of incubation at 97.5 degrees.. 1.542 grams per day or 10.794 grams per week

 

[yinepu]

Anybody willing to sell me a chick and ship to NY?

Kalaya emu estates sells chicks and ships

http://www.kalayaemuestate.com/emu_chicks_breeders_for_sale.html

 

[gunnarwordon]

yeah, but for the price, I am better off flying to Sydney and catching one myself...... shipping alone is 220 dollars! I hate to sound cheap....... but that's just what I am..........

 

[mitch324]

Anybody willing to sell me a chick and ship to NY?

I will

 

[gunnarwordon]

really? how much per......... pm me with prices, if you will.

 

[yinepu]

yeah, but for the price, I am better off flying to Sydney and catching one myself...... shipping alone is 220 dollars! I hate to sound cheap....... but that's just what I am..........

well considering they are protected in Australia .. me thinks you would be in a heap o' trouble!