All current eggs crammed in incubator *whew*. One batch hatched yesterday, and I had more to set than the space that got freed up.
I do have a bunch due to hatch over the next 10-12 days, but I am not expecting good hatches from those (Ermine Marans and Seramas). Remember the busted incubator UPS delivered? I had already had to juggle finances trying to hurry and get another bator, and then I got the busted bator and that caused yet more delay. So by the time I got the eggs set that I had been sitting on (oops, no pun intended lol), some of those eggs were probably a month old. But I set them anyway in hopes of hatching whatever I can get.
This is the new (unbroken) Brinsea with no stacked eggs. I got it for a hatcher, you know, for a nice neat 24 eggs set a week in the other two for incubating, and 24 into the hatcher. I was thinking I could set on the same day each week, and have 24 hatching each week. Somehow it's not working out that way.
Anyhoo, it has no cradle since it's supposed to be a hatcher, so I will have to manually tilt it back and forth to turn the eggs.
This one has all Seramas, with 3 different hatch dates. One full layer on the bottom, and a plastic organizing tray on top of those. I squeezed 27 eggs in the top tray, big end up, and they *just* fit. I loosely wrapped paper towels around that top tray to make sure they don't fall out when the incubator tilts. There are a total of more than 60 eggs in that one incubator, but as stated, I'm not expecting very many of them to hatch.
The light eggs on the right are turkey eggs. On the far right are 6 eggs in a cut out section of a fiberboard egg tray. I will have to find a small object to put under 1 end so I can tilt that fiberboard strip back and forth every day.Those 6 eggs are loosely wrapped with paper towels because they are over 2 weeks old and muddy. I hope they don't explode, but just in case...
I do have a bunch due to hatch over the next 10-12 days, but I am not expecting good hatches from those (Ermine Marans and Seramas). Remember the busted incubator UPS delivered? I had already had to juggle finances trying to hurry and get another bator, and then I got the busted bator and that caused yet more delay. So by the time I got the eggs set that I had been sitting on (oops, no pun intended lol), some of those eggs were probably a month old. But I set them anyway in hopes of hatching whatever I can get.
This is the new (unbroken) Brinsea with no stacked eggs. I got it for a hatcher, you know, for a nice neat 24 eggs set a week in the other two for incubating, and 24 into the hatcher. I was thinking I could set on the same day each week, and have 24 hatching each week. Somehow it's not working out that way.
Anyhoo, it has no cradle since it's supposed to be a hatcher, so I will have to manually tilt it back and forth to turn the eggs.
This one has all Seramas, with 3 different hatch dates. One full layer on the bottom, and a plastic organizing tray on top of those. I squeezed 27 eggs in the top tray, big end up, and they *just* fit. I loosely wrapped paper towels around that top tray to make sure they don't fall out when the incubator tilts. There are a total of more than 60 eggs in that one incubator, but as stated, I'm not expecting very many of them to hatch.
The light eggs on the right are turkey eggs. On the far right are 6 eggs in a cut out section of a fiberboard egg tray. I will have to find a small object to put under 1 end so I can tilt that fiberboard strip back and forth every day.Those 6 eggs are loosely wrapped with paper towels because they are over 2 weeks old and muddy. I hope they don't explode, but just in case...
Thank you for taking such care in getting these babies to me!
