California - Northern

[salkxsj]

I am praying for all effected .

 

[Happy Chooks]

Hubby came in and saw me at work and told me we got two eggs today!!!!!!
The brahma and olive egger laid they're very first eggs. Can't wait to get home and see them!

Congrats!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Flowers - hope your baby feels better soon.

So sorry about Maggie Laura.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

How long does it take chickens to molt and start laying again?

 

[lawatt]

so, here's a question for the incubating experts -- i clearly have a defective Rcom. the company folks have been very responsive on email, but they don't seem to have any idea what might be wrong, and their few suggestions haven't worked at all. they say they will send out a replacement unit monday, which means i might get it wednesday.

the isbar eggs were collected last sunday, sent monday but arrived a day late, thursday. i let them rest for 24 hours at room temp, then put them in the incubator last night -- since then, the temp for them has varied between 85-90°.

should i:
a) leave them in the incubator at ~90° while waiting for the replacement to arrive, & hope for the best?
b) take them out and let them rest at room temp again, & hope for the best?
c) give up on them, they're going to be too old by the time the replacement arrives?

thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have!

 

[Chickengirl1304]

so, here's a question for the incubating experts -- i clearly have a defective Rcom.  the company folks have been very responsive on email, but they don't seem to have any idea what might be wrong, and their few suggestions haven't worked at all.  they say they will send out a replacement unit monday, which means i might get it wednesday.

the isbar eggs were collected last sunday, sent monday but arrived a day late, thursday.  i let them rest for 24 hours at room temp, then put them in the incubator last night -- since then, the temp for them has varied between 85-90°.

should i:
a) leave them in the incubator at ~90° while waiting for the replacement to arrive, & hope for the best?
b) take them out and let them rest at room temp again, & hope for the best?
c) give up on them, they're going to be too old by the time the replacement arrives?

thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have!

I would leave them in it until the other arrives and is up to temp.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

We are fully socked in by the smoke. The wind is driving the rim fire right over our ridge. Ash shared yesterday. It's pretty hot but we are keeping the windows closed. My baby just popped a 102 fever and I'm praying its not a respitory infection. I worry since his pneumonia episodes... Rain dance anyone?

Poor thing! I hate when my babies are sick! We are homeschooling this year so maybe my 6 year old wont bring things home like last year! :/

 

[Hangtown Farms]

so, here's a question for the incubating experts -- i clearly have a defective Rcom. the company folks have been very responsive on email, but they don't seem to have any idea what might be wrong, and their few suggestions haven't worked at all. they say they will send out a replacement unit monday, which means i might get it wednesday.

the isbar eggs were collected last sunday, sent monday but arrived a day late, thursday. i let them rest for 24 hours at room temp, then put them in the incubator last night -- since then, the temp for them has varied between 85-90°.

should i:
a) leave them in the incubator at ~90° while waiting for the replacement to arrive, & hope for the best?
b) take them out and let them rest at room temp again, & hope for the best?
c) give up on them, they're going to be too old by the time the replacement arrives?

thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have!

hmmm bummer.
Maybe someone can step in and cook them for you. I do not think doing anything except getting them to proper temp quickly is going to get them to hatch. I may be wrong though but seems way to long. If you adjust the temp to 109.5 or 110.5 will that get it to the proper 99.5 range you think.

 

[lawatt]

hmmm bummer.
Maybe someone can step in and cook them for you. I do not think doing anything except getting them to proper temp quickly is going to get them to hatch. I may be wrong though but seems way to long. If you adjust the temp to 109.5 or 110.5 will that get it to the proper 99.5 range you think.

I've gotten it up to 90.5 by setting it to 104, so perhaps tomorrow morning i'll try cranking it way up -- but too sleepy to stay up watching it obsessively tonight. i'm just not off to a good start with incubating.

 

[ChickNmamma]

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If it were me, and because you have broodies working on incubating other eggs, you can stick those eggs under one of them (if they fit) and allow them to keep them at the correct temperature and rotation for the first 7 days which is critical - and then you can put it in the incubator when you get it stabilized. That is what I would do...