Chat N Chicknfun Thread

[silver1313]

LOL, well, maybe not. Out of my batch of 5 hatchlings, there is only 1, possibly 2 roos
think optimistically.....LOL

lol i know me and roosters !! but she did make me feel better she said her last hatch was 10 hens to 2 roos i think it was

 

[chicknfun]

that's cool!! Hopefully that is the case.....sounds like you sexed them right

 

[chicknfun]

I'm gonna go for a while I want to get something done on the duckie pen....
I'll be back on later

 

[silver1313]

Ok laters // got to start supper soon myself !!

 

[Alaskan]

OK, I did the dump run, grocery shopping, and picked up my eggs.....

So now I have all of these questions that I am pasting into lots of different threads to see if anyone has a clue....




Well, I am setting eggs today, and I am in a panic!

It has been a few years since I have used my incubator. But I remember loosing some chicks to malpositioning.

So...... I decided that this time I would try to hatch them all standing up in egg cartons.

BUT, I just picked them up, and looked them over, and it is NOT completely clear to me (only on a few of the eggs) which end is the small end! Chickens!!!! Sheesh!

So, I am trying to decide if I want to do half and half, or whatever.

Also, I had read somewhere that putting a bunch of clean glass beads (those big fattened round ones) in the bottom of the incubator could help temperatures stay more steady. I think this was another mistake. The incubator was holding a good steady temp, I put in the glass beads, the temp plummeted and hasn't gone back up all the way. Why? Why would it do that? So, as of last night, I kept slightly increasing the temp watching if the temp was correct yet.


(My incubator has a heating element that is a wafer and is adjusted by turning a screw. No cool "two degrees higher please" button).

I am going to wait another hour or two..and if the temp is still way off, I will take out all of the beads, then wait another hour or two, and then HOPEFULLY actually put the eggs INSIDE the incubator! (but guesses as to why the glass beads would have messed everything up would be welcome. I *DO* have children, but they have told me that they didn't touch anything

)

And the reason that I wanted to try the beads is that my house does NOT stay at a steady temp, and I was hoping to keep things in the incubator a bit steadier.

I am putting in....(now I need to go back and count) 19 Black Copper Marans (English), 2 Olive eggers, and one gorgeous blue egg that will produce another olive egger.

Most of the Marans eggs are *SO* dark that I am not so sure I will be able to see anything!

Also, the seller said that she had found, that the darker the egg, the thicker the shell, and the more difficult it is for the chicks to hatch on their own. Anyone else have this?

 

[chicknfun]

Sorry Sil, had to strike while the iron was hot so to speak......LOL
Got DH to use the auger and dig holes for the posts.....LOL YAY, now the posts are set!!!!!
well, sorta, they are in place and basically roughly plumb YAY!!!!! OOOHHHH, I can now start to see it, lookin out my window at what is there now......I LIKE IT!!!! I ahve plants to plant around the outside.....YAY!!!!!!
I'll get a pic quick:

It looks funny cuz it is taken through the screen...LOLThat fern thing is in a pot still, going to put it near the back right hand corner, basically right in the center of the pic
Ill plant everything outside so they can't tear it all up and eat it

 

[chicknfun]

OK, I did the dump run, grocery shopping, and picked up my eggs.....

So now I have all of these questions that I am pasting into lots of different threads to see if anyone has a clue....




Well, I am setting eggs today, and I am in a panic!

It has been a few years since I have used my incubator. But I remember loosing some chicks to malpositioning.

So...... I decided that this time I would try to hatch them all standing up in egg cartons.

BUT, I just picked them up, and looked them over, and it is NOT completely clear to me (only on a few of the eggs) which end is the small end! Chickens!!!! Sheesh!

So, I am trying to decide if I want to do half and half, or whatever.

Also, I had read somewhere that putting a bunch of clean glass beads (those big fattened round ones) in the bottom of the incubator could help temperatures stay more steady. I think this was another mistake. The incubator was holding a good steady temp, I put in the glass beads, the temp plummeted and hasn't gone back up all the way. Why? Why would it do that? So, as of last night, I kept slightly increasing the temp watching if the temp was correct yet.


(My incubator has a heating element that is a wafer and is adjusted by turning a screw. No cool "two degrees higher please" button).

I am going to wait another hour or two..and if the temp is still way off, I will take out all of the beads, then wait another hour or two, and then HOPEFULLY actually put the eggs INSIDE the incubator! (but guesses as to why the glass beads would have messed everything up would be welcome. I *DO* have children, but they have told me that they didn't touch anything

)

And the reason that I wanted to try the beads is that my house does NOT stay at a steady temp, and I was hoping to keep things in the incubator a bit steadier.

I am putting in....(now I need to go back and count) 19 Black Copper Marans (English), 2 Olive eggers, and one gorgeous blue egg that will produce another olive egger.

Most of the Marans eggs are *SO* dark that I am not so sure I will be able to see anything!

Also, the seller said that she had found, that the darker the egg, the thicker the shell, and the more difficult it is for the chicks to hatch on their own. Anyone else have this?

Hi Alaskan!!!!

 

[chicknfun]

Quote:

Hi Alaskan!!!!

I would leave the beads now.....the reason that it is fluctuating I would say could be the rocks went in at a lower temp and brought the over all temp down. Make sure they are not touching anything else.
I have never incubated, but I have read where others have stated about the egg shells hardness affecting the hatch .

 

[chickadoodles]

Sorry Sil, had to strike while the iron was hot so to speak......LOL
Got DH to use the auger and dig holes for the posts.....LOL YAY, now the posts are set!!!!!
well, sorta, they are in place and basically roughly plumb YAY!!!!! OOOHHHH, I can now start to see it, lookin out my window at what is there now......I LIKE IT!!!! I ahve plants to plant around the outside.....YAY!!!!!!
I'll get a pic quick:

It looks funny cuz it is taken through the screen...LOLThat fern thing is in a pot still, going to put it near the back right hand corner, basically right in the center of the pic
Ill plant everything outside so they can't tear it all up and eat it

It is very pretty! Is it going to be for ducks, chickens or turkey?

 

[Alaskan]

thanks