Well hatching officially stresses me out. LOL I had the therm up to 100 yesterday and suddenly is dropped to 97. I kept fiddling with the thermostat to get the temp up. Struggled. Hours of adjusting and waiting later I realized one of my young daughters was messing with the cords and it had gotten moved and the sensor was laying at the bottom, trapped by the turner. Despite the 24 hour no touch rule I had to remove the lid and rescue the cord. The turner couldn't even turn properly. I adjusted the position and TAPED it into place this time. But as I waited for the true temps to be measures it was in excess of 103. I almost died. I am hoping I didn't kill the eggs in the process. From about 6pm on I was able to finally keep it at 101 during the day, it dipped to 100.something at night and then back up to 101.something during the day. Steady. So THAT part has me happy. I am just really hoping I didn't damage them yesterday.
The duck eggs go in tomorrow. So worse case *wipes tear*- no goose eggs hatch and I buy from Jen C who has some gorgeous Brown Africans. But I am still determined to hatch some duck eggs to finish out what I am doing for now.
Getting some Welsummers eggs from someoneeeeee in this thread that has the prettiest Wellies and Barnies (now who could that be? LOL) and I want some more bantie BLRWs so maybe I can coordinate all the eggs and hatch them all at the same time (adjusting for times of course).
Anyone in here want some baby ducks? Free- I'm just test hatching and I don't care to keep any at this point. There will be some pure Pekins, some barnyard mixes and possibly an Appleyard or two (its a stretch but possible!) - if I can make out the SA though I might keep it.
