BYC Café

[Meg-in-MT]

Don't worry so much, it will spoil all the fun!

And it does not really matter whether it is day 18 or 18,5, the important thing is to take out the turner and up the humidity to 60%.

As soon as the first chick hatches, the humidity will skyrocket anyway.

Thanks, LaFleche I'm an excessive worrier and over thinker!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Less you touch a bator more chicks will hatch

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Yeah, I can't tell from that....always went by the visual tracing to decide whether to up humidity when turner was taken out or wait until first pip

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I will do both next time. A little ridiculous, but I get quite shakey handling the eggs

Less you touch a bator more chicks will hatch

Hands off the bator, now! We'll see what happens with the dozen left.

 

[LaFleche]

Thanks, LaFleche I'm an excessive worrier and over thinker!

High time you start to enjoy!

 

[bruceha2000]

warmed maple syrup

The real stuff or "breakfast syrup"? I grew up on the latter, back when they could legally call it maple syrup even though it was mostly corn syrup and a little maple flavoring (real if you are lucky). We always had it warm.

Moved to VT in '79. Haven't touched the fake stuff since (and won't). I'll do "syrup foods" if they have berry syrup, otherwise I'll eat something else. We use it straight out of the refrigerator. I think the fake stuff needs to be heated to hide the corn syrup taste/consistency.

First time. I'm not looking forward to the prep.

I'm with you there! Had a physical earlier this month, Dr said I'm due next year. NOT looking forward to it.

But don't you get the good stuff to beam you into dreamland?

That is at the facility, not in your MANY hours long sequestration in the bathroom.

Not fun, but doable.

Been there, done that, and you are right, NOT FUN! But I had no one to drive me home so no drugs. The first one they positioned the screen so I could watch, I was out before they started. I don't know how one could have the drugs AND still be conscious enough to watch.

 

[aart]

So can you go by what the 18th day is supposed to look like or do you have to go by the difference between 7, 14, and 18?

I might adjust the humidity on any day.

And is lockdown supposed to be the beginning of day 18 or the beginning of day 19? Not sure why I can't figure that out

Not that important.
Tho once I found a pipped chick 'glued' to the turner on day 18-19.
Now I get the turner out early on day 18, by then turning is not critical, but I may not up the humidity until first pip.
First couple incubations are nerve racking...maybe all of them.

 

[DobieLover]

Blindingly bright blue sky.
Bella was never interested in retrieving sticks. Yesterday her boyfriend, Apollo, and her other boyfriend, Blaze, and her arch nemesis, Shiloh, were all chasing after sticks. She found one of their sticks in the snow and decided they were fun after all. She carried it a bit and chewed on it a bit.

 

[bruceha2000]

Easy to see which dog has the longer legs
Is Bella now going to have a stick pile in the house?

 

[sourland]

Easy to see which dog has the longer legs
Is Bella now going to have a stick pile in the house?

Prior to all of the snow, Maggie would bring a stick into the house after every trip outdoors. There's a pile of kindling just off the porch.

'Breakfast syrup' is not, has never been maple syrup.

 

[ShrekDawg]

The real stuff or "breakfast syrup"? I grew up on the latter, back when they could legally call it maple syrup even though it was mostly corn syrup and a little maple flavoring (real if you are lucky). We always had it warm.

Moved to VT in '79. Haven't touched the fake stuff since (and won't). I'll do "syrup foods" if they have berry syrup, otherwise I'll eat something else. We use it straight out of the refrigerator. I think the fake stuff needs to be heated to hide the corn syrup taste/consistency.


I'm with you there! Had a physical earlier this month, Dr said I'm due next year. NOT looking forward to it.


That is at the facility, not in your MANY hours long sequestration in the bathroom.


Been there, done that, and you are right, NOT FUN! But I had no one to drive me home so no drugs. The first one they positioned the screen so I could watch, I was out before they started. I don't know how one could have the drugs AND still be conscious enough to watch.

Prior to all of the snow, Maggie would bring a stick into the house after every trip outdoors. There's a pile of kindling just off the porch.

'Breakfast syrup' is not, has never been maple syrup.

I can’t eat the fake stuff anymore either! I used to like the Log Cabin stuff but then I started buying the real stuff and now even Log Cabin tastes nasty to me