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[lawatt]

You can candle any time you want to, but the days on the chart above are recommended for checking air cell development. Based on development, humidity is adjusted up or down.

Also, air cell development happens when the egg is developing so with dark eggs you can tell if there is a chick growing inside the egg.

thanks! none of these air cells look anything like that tidy, but i just took a look at them all -- of the 13 (12 isbars + a Daisy Jr. egg), six look to be pretty definitely developing, seven (including the daisy egg) i'm not entirely sure of -- there's SOMETHING dark in there, but the either seem less solid than the others, or are detached 7 floating around so randomly i can't really tell what's going on. keeping them all in the Rcom for now, and it's instructions were to just keep it at 99.5° and 45% humidity until day 18, then turn off egg turning & increase humidity. given that i have no clue what i'm doing, i thought i'd stick to that simple plan, rather than try tinkering?

but i did move the six more-sure-about ones to one side of the incubator, and the other seven to the other side -- will eventually see how good my candling skills were!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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[Happy Chooks]

Quote: I too love bats. We spent many times at a lake in the summer with a houseboat when I was a kid. My brother and I used to lay on the lawn chairs and throw tiny pebbles up in the air and watch the bats dive for them.

 

[OR4-hmom]

We had rain yesterday and the quail are doing the happy popcorn dance. For those of you with quail are mine defective or the norm?

I had a pinhole leak in a hose that was spraying a mist over their pen earlier this summer and they seemed to be having a blast playing on it. They seemed annoyed with me when I changed out the sandbox and feeder for dry food.

 

[ronott1]

thanks! none of these air cells look anything like that tidy, but i just took a look at them all -- of the 13 (12 isbars + a Daisy Jr. egg), six look to be pretty definitely developing, seven (including the daisy egg) i'm not entirely sure of -- there's SOMETHING dark in there, but the either seem less solid than the others, or are detached 7 floating around so randomly i can't really tell what's going on. keeping them all in the Rcom for now, and it's instructions were to just keep it at 99.5° and 45% humidity until day 18, then turn off egg turning & increase humidity. given that i have no clue what i'm doing, i thought i'd stick to that simple plan, rather than try tinkering?

but i did move the six more-sure-about ones to one side of the incubator, and the other seven to the other side -- will eventually see how good my candling skills were!

Yes, pay attention to the day they hatch and the condition of the chicks. If they hatch late and are wet and sticky, bump the temp up a bit and lower humidity 5%. If the hatch on time and are not wet and sticky then leave the settings where they are.

Eggs that do not develop and are dark will glow when you candle them.

I am sending you happy hatching wishes!

 

[Ali707]

Just dont call it Lame stuff Ranch

I thought a Jolly Roger was a little square hard piece of candy

Great news. its great owning. Congratulations. Can you move your coop easily or do you have to build a new one?

Ha ha.... I had a co-worker say the same thing. The candy is Jolly Rancher.

I am going to try to move the coop. I may need about 4 - 5 manly men to help me lift it, one on each corner and a 5th just in case it is heavier than I think. At the very least it will be top heavy. So 4 would be safer.

I am renting right now and I don't think the landlord would appreciate me leaving the coop, plus I must have at least $500 in wood, nails, hardware cloth and hardware in the darn thing.

We had rain yesterday and the quail are doing the happy popcorn dance. For those of you with quail are mine defective or the norm?

I had a pinhole leak in a hose that was spraying a mist over their pen earlier this summer and they seemed to be having a blast playing on it. They seemed annoyed with me when I changed out the sandbox and feeder for dry food.

That is funny. I will keep it in mind when I get some...... getting closer to it though.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Well here I go hatching again!! Isbars, barnevelders and maybe a few of my own the two are shipped so I really hope I get a few :/

 

[chicksnthestiks]

Ha ha.... I had a co-worker say the same thing.  The candy is Jolly Rancher.  

I am going to try to move the coop.  I may need about 4 - 5 manly men to help me lift it, one on each corner and a 5th just in case it is heavier than I think.  At the very least it will be top heavy.  So 4 would be safer.

I am renting right now and I don't think the landlord would appreciate me leaving the coop, plus I must have at least $500 in wood, nails, hardware cloth and hardware in the darn thing.  

That is funny.  I will keep it in mind when I get some...... getting closer to it though.

I am glad the thread has been slow, I am catching up. Congrats on the house Alicia! We just closed on re-financing, got locked in at 3.5% for 15 years. Just ask if you need help moving chickens, I am available on Sundays and some weekdays. I have a truck with a shell and my Vari-kennel 500 size would hold 8 chickens easy. Love all the chick pictures and Serama's and those D'anvers of chickee's. I thought cuckoo colored one was going to hypnotize me with the pattern on her beard!

 

[Ali707]

I am glad the thread has been slow, I am catching up. Congrats on the house Alicia! We just closed on re-financing, got locked in at 3.5% for 15 years. Just ask if you need help moving chickens, I am available on Sundays and some weekdays. I have a truck with a shell and my Vari-kennel 500 size would hold 8 chickens easy. Love all the chick pictures and Serama's and those D'anvers of chickee's. I thought cuckoo colored one was going to hypnotize me with the pattern on her beard!

Thank you so much for that offer! That is really nice of you. I know that moving this coop will probably be the most stressful thing that I have to move, but I will see if I can't get it done with minimal craziness. so glad to be done with the buying process though. Congrats on the refi. These rates are not going to last a lot longer I don't think.

I just don't know when yet. I did find out though that it will fund on Monday, so this weekend is a packing weekend. UGH!

 

[chiqita]

Hot and exciting! ERM... Not the way it sounded. But its going to be warmmm this weekend . we were going to Lodi for the passport event but its over 100 there this weekend . I'm set up for a weekend of frozen drinks and not cooking.

Can you put the edges of your coop on wheeled mover things? They are like 5-10 bucks at harbor freight. I use them to move coops and heavy crap all the time I love them!