California - Northern

[ronott1]

How old is she? My kids grew up with all sorts of livestock, including chickens, dicks, geese, sheep, goats and horses. We ate our surplus, but my husband did the killing. I have a niece that would come up from San Jose every summer. She is now in her late 30s and still won't eat chicken-on-the-bone though. She was very traumatized by the idea that we were eating chickens she had seen running around..

My Oldest DD will have chickens. My Middle DD might but my Youngest has no interest in them. She is 14 though and may change her mind later.

 

[PetRock]

How old is she? My kids grew up with all sorts of livestock, including chickens, dicks, geese, sheep, goats and horses. We ate our surplus, but my husband did the killing. I have a niece that would come up from San Jose every summer. She is now in her late 30s and still won't eat chicken-on-the-bone though. She was very traumatized by the idea that we were eating chickens she had seen running around..

She will be 29 next month! We just had a dog and cat when she was growing up. She thinks that she would like to live on a farm and have lots of animals but she is not really an animal person! She has a ways to go before living that dream!

 

[Audio51]

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OK....well that tells me mine is way too high. They are on day 19 and were moved to the Farm Innovator yesterday. The hygrometer is reading 60%, but the windows on top have a lot o condensation on them. I had all of the water troughs filled, but it was only reading about 49-52% so I added a standard sponge cut into 3 strips and moistened them. That brought it up to the 61% it is at now. It sounds like I need to go remove a couple of the sponges,

 

[ronott1]

I have the humidity set between 40 & 45 right now. In the Brinsea Cabinet the chicks I called drown were totally soaked & water ran out when I cracked the eggs & did my eggtopsies. That was at 65% humidity the last 3 days.

For the Dark eggs, I would keep the humidity on the low side--35 to 40%. The liquid like you saw is from the yolk not absorbing correctly which is from too low of temps first and too high humidity second. It is also sometimes from poor flock health and shipping stress. Even with very high humidity, liquid will not get into the eggs at hatch.

Yes, they likely did drown because of the liquid in the egg but it was not from the humidity at lockdown.

Marans and Penedesenca eggs are so hard to hatch sometimes! The Partridge Pene eggs I am incubating currently are so dark that I cannot even see the air cell! Crazy, dark and thick.

Very pretty eggs though! I think a couple of them are glowing less now so they may be developing?

 

[ronott1]

OK....well that tells me mine is way too high. They are on day 19 and were moved to the Farm Innovator yesterday. The hygrometer is reading 60%, but the windows on top have a lot o condensation on them. I had all of the water troughs filled, but it was only reading about 49-52% so I added a standard sponge cut into 3 strips and moistened them. That brought it up to the 61% it is at now. It sounds like I need to go remove a couple of the sponges,

Take the hygrometer out to the porch and let it sit there for a couple of hours. Go to intellicast and find the humidity for you zipcode and compare it to what the hygrometer says. It may be reading 20 low or so.

 

[EZFarms]

@Ronott1 thats cool. i love watching your vids. all of my eggs are doing good even though there have been a few drops in temp.

 

[ronott1]

@Ronott1 thats cool. i love watching your vids. all of my eggs are doing good even though there have been a few drops in temp.

That is great!

I hope you get some to hatch!

 

[sewandgrow]

I will do that. You are so right the dark eggs are much harder to hatch. I always said the Dels were the easier. They pipped, zipped & were out running around fastest, next only to quail........LOL
My husband has a weather staion attached to his computer up in the barn, a birthday present I got him some years back. He is my weatherman & keeps me up of the temps & humidity,

 

[casportpony]

Just curious, but does anyone here incubate peafowl eggs?

-Kathy

 

[chrissyr]

Doesn't look like it's pipped yet, but it might very soon! I also have some Muscovy eggs due around the 1st.

-Kathy

Thank you Kathy, I appreciate it

Even my 17 year old can't wait for little duck babies to be around. So we're excited over here. Congrats on yours coming soon!