Are You A Brinsea Owner? - April Hatch Along - Prize: Ecoglow Brooder!

[ecse129]

Update: 5 ducks out, 4 pipped and working on the zip!

4 are now in the brooder with one still fluffing up in the incubator. If you want to see them, our two webcams will be online after school tonight (in about 1 hour).
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/huntseggs
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/huntseggs2

The remaining 4 to hatch have wet paper towels wrapped around the bottom because the membranes got awfully dry.

The humidity got high enough if I would have had chicks, but the ducks needed higher humidity and I had a hard time getting it up there.

 

[Colie <3]

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LOL awesome though! I wonder if you could fit a quail egg or two in there?

I'm gonna load my brinsea up again soon

I'm waiting for eggs to be ready to ship and I'm also waiting on some brinsea disinfectant solution to show up! Hopefully adding the use of it into my hatching and incubator cleaning routine will help up my hatch rates

I've been cleaning my incubators with a bleach solution but who knows maybe the brinsea brand stuff will be a step up... Not sure if I'm ready to start disinfecting eggs yet though.... What does everyone else do?

Colie...what kind of Brinsea do you have and did you lose all your eggs?? I am on my 2nd hatch now with my Brinsea Advance EX...I disinfected with chlorine mixed with water after hatch one and so far...day #14...the chicks are developing well. I just candled last night for the 2nd time and removed the 5 I had previously marked ??? Now I have 15 going well out of 24. I did take the screws out on my bator top and clean that too even though I'd only used it once.

I have a Brinsea 20 Advanced I don't have the humidity pump. I don't have to fiddle with the temperature that's really really nice and the thermometer and hydrometer built into the lid are accurate which I'm loving. When I cleaned it before this hatch I didn't take any of the screws out but I blasted the lid with compressed air to get rid of the fluff stuck up in there. I cleaned the bottom with the bleach solution but I didn't submerge it as I heard that was a bad thing because of the foam in the bottom. The ending numbers were:
* 26 set from 3 different sellers all shipped eggs
* 14 got tossed at lock down because 90% had no development had another two that early quitters and one of them with a blood ring. So I tossed almost 54% of the eggs at lockdown I didn't candle all the way up till that point just sniffed the bator.
* 12 got set 6 of those looked good at lockdown even though I didn't see a lot of movement. The other 6 I had my doubts about but set them anyhow.
* TWO hatched

* I candled and did a float test on the ones that didn't hatch by day 23. None showed movement in either.
* Opened up the 4 that looked most developed that really made me wonder why they didn't hatch and they were fully formed but no internal pip. The air cell didn't look overly large so no clue...

 

[fifelakelooper]

I'm thinking it wasn't the incubator ....more likely displaced egg sacs or were the eggs very dirty?? Damaged in shipping somehow maybe. We know the incubator is good...you cleaned it good ....therefore...I'm thinking eggs. Brinsea recommends about 65% RH for hatching...is that what your RH was? If the batch were all different ages...that might have some bearing. I have never put in more than one breeders eggs...i'm doing it the first week of May. I hope that won't be an issue. There is a website to help you figure out what went wrong. Check it out: www.edis.ifas.ufl.edu
Let us know if you find answers...

 

[MetalSmitten]

first baby hatched! here's my entry!

 

[cpegram]

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Awe

 

[7L Farm]

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Little baby needs to comb her hair. LOL

 

[hannakat]

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I keep seeing pictures of newly hatched ducks.....they are stinking CUTE! Wonder if I can work on DH? ummm........ ducks!

 

[quiltnchik]

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If he's smart he'll keep telling you no. Ducklings are M-E-S-S-Y!!

 

[Azriel]

My first 2 have hatched. This is my entry

 

[bordergurl]

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If he's smart he'll keep telling you no. Ducklings are M-E-S-S-Y!!

Ducklings may be messier than chicks, but ducks are easy to care for when you have a pond! Heck I only feed them once a day and collect their eggs in return. Now their winter pen is a horrid mess!

I've raised more ducklings than chicks, and really find them very little work