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[PetRock]

The SG Dorkings have hatched!

Absolutely adorable!!!!

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Good evening everyone! Welcome Flowers! I am new to the thread also and I don't feel like I should welcome anyone yet! it isn't my place. But what he heck. Everyone here IS nice.

Anyway, just sharing some frustrations with the whole calibrating the thermometer thing. It didn't occur to me that a brand new incubator that says it will tell you the temperature and humidity would be inaccurate. So I set the quail eggs that came with it without realizing I need to figure it out.

So now I have two additional thermometers (I haven't actually bought any yet). And I have no idea which is right. I did the ice water test with the digital meat thermo and it read right on at 32 degrees.

I have an acu right weather humidity one and that one I didn't do the water test because I don't think I am supposed to submerge it.

The acu right one I have had in the incubator for a couple of days now at egg level and it reads 1 degree less than the hovabator. The meat thermometer reads a couple of degrees less, but I don't have a way to verify which one is actually right. The acu weather one is designed to measure the ambient air temperature and he meat one is designed to be stuck in something so may not be reading the air temperature correctly.

It sounds like if I run right out and get another new one I can't be positive it is reading correct either.......?

Who knew after all the reading and helpful information on here I still wasn't ready! Glad these are the quail eggs and not my chicken eggs

Welcome to the thread!!

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Adorable & Congrats!

The SG Dorkings have hatched!

 

[ronott1]

Quote: Yesterday I got a PM from someone that said my quote at the bottom was stuck in their head sans music. It is funny how much these chickens become a part of your life. Who knew that one day I would get up at 5:30 in the morning and wash a just hatched chick with membrane sticking one wing and one foot to its body? Then I had to get the last one unstuck--I put a piece of wet paper towel on the stuck part last night and this morning it rolled out of the shell!

I get to set another batch of them tomorrow! This time the Delaware eggs should be fertile too!!!!

 

[capayvalleychick]

Who knew that one day I would get up at 5:30 in the morning and wash a just hatched chick with membrane sticking one wing and one foot to its body? Then I had to get the last one unstuck--I put a piece of wet paper towel on the stuck part last night and this morning it rolled out of the shell!

I get to set another batch of them tomorrow! This time the Delaware eggs should be fertile too!!!!

Ron, I so appreciate you going to all the trouble of incubating eggs for me!

Thank you so much, also, for taking the time and effort to save those chicks that needed extra help!

Woohoo!!!! I have new Dorking chicks!

Everybody, please cross your fingers that this next batch of Delawares be fertile!

 

[debs_flock]

Cute chicks! (aren't they all???)

 

[PetRock]

Have any of you hatched chicken and quail eggs at the same time? If my incubator arrives tomorrow, I would like to participate in the Easter hatch-along. I am getting quail eggs with the incubator but chiqita shared some of her fertile chicken eggs with me!

 

[ronott1]

Have any of you hatched chicken and quail eggs at the same time? If my incubator arrives tomorrow, I would like to participate in the Easter hatch-along. I am getting quail eggs with the incubator but chiqita shared some of her fertile chicken eggs with me!

I have not, but you can remove the rails independently in the egg turner. They hatch at different days, so you would have to add the quail on the date for them so that they hit lockdown at the right time.

I bet Deb_Flock and Chiqita do this all the time...

 

[PetRock]

I have not, but you can remove the rails independently in the egg turner. They hatch at different days, so you would have to add the quail on the date for them so that they hit lockdown at the right time.

I bet Deb_Flock and Chiqita do this all the time...

Thanks, Ron. I am getting Bobwhite Quail. I'll have to find out how long incubation is for them.

23 days according to a post in the quail forum.

 

[SilkieRose]

Morning!! I need some expert advice... My EE, Flossie, hasn't laid in about 3 days. Just finished the 2nd worming. Last night I noticed that one of the ladies sounded like she coughed.... I narrowed it down to Flossie. This morning when I let them out she did it again. I have been watching her & her poo looks fine, but she is drinking a lot & keeping her beak open a bit. She also appears to have too many secretions in her respiratory tract. Her face is wet & she's not sneezing or shaking off the excess water after drinking. I haven't been able to look down her throat yet, but what could be wrong? How do I fix it ? I just got done worming & I want everybody healthy!!!

HELP?!!! Please.