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samsr said:
I I just set 21 eggs, 18 of my own which I am 95% sure are fertile and 3 from the neighbors, whose incubator I borrowed and wants to know if his rooster is doing his job correctly. It is a farm inovations still air incubator. I sure wish it had a fan in it. I guess I will find out if I have it in me to hatch out some eggs. All of the hatchlings will be donated for prizes for CHICKEN FEST on the 17th of may. I had it set exactly at 99.5 last night and this morning it was at 97.9. It looks like the ambient temp of my house affects the swings pretty well. It was at 100 when I got home this afternoon. humidity was at 44%. I hope at least some hatch.
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Room to wire a small computer fan into it?
 
I actually thought about that. Maybe a 6 volt charger to turn the fan a little slower. That wouuld probably work. Let me see what I have laying around.
 
Anyone had to remove the tip of a chickens toe when they were a few days old and then have it grow back over time?
 
I have a computer fan in there now. Temp is coming up rather fast now. I wired it to a cordless phone charger. Fan is rated at 12 volts .24 amp and charger is rated at 9 volts and .34 amp. So far so good. It makes a whirring noise now. Maybe I can find something to cushion the fan to reduce the noise. When I do finally purchase one it will definately have a fan in it. From reading other posts, they are so much friendlier to work with.
 
ScottLovelandCO said:
A pip is the first hole that they make. They will usually rest after the pip and eventually start unzipping. When they unzip they start at the pip hole and start pecking away shell working counterclockwise. Once unzipped they might rest for awhile or they might immediately start pushing up on the shell. Eventually they will lift the big end off and free their head and make their way out of the shell. The "clean lines" refers to the unzipping. I've seen some that are nice and neat all the way around and some that just hack away until they can break free. As for the lines on the eggs, those are the progression of the air sacs. On day zero you can weigh and trace the air sac on the big end. On days 7, 14, and 18 you can retrace the outline of the air sacs and watch them grow. This will help you adjust the humidity throughout the incubation period. Too much humidity and the air sacs will not get big enough for hatching and the chick will drown. Not enough humidity and the air sacs will get too large and compress the chick into such a tight space that it does not have the space to move around and hatch.
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Thank you for asking those questions, VtotheAL. I was curious about the same thing. My grandson's teacher is hatching 21 eggs in her classroom, and she has asked if I can help her out. I'm never one to say "no" to things like that, but I'm not sure what I'm doing, either. I know I can always ask questions here, but I wish I could flag some of this advice so I could find it again when I need it.

Thank you, ScottLovelandCO, for that very detailed answer. :-)
 
I tried moving my three older (10 weeks old, now, I think) chicks into the big-girls' coop and run. I put a small pet travel carrier in there and set it up so that the chicks could get in and out, but the big girls couldn't get in. (Thanks to everyone who shared that idea!) My Australorp and Easter Egger don't bother the chicks at all. The RIRs, though, are just plain mean! They even attack me, now, nearly every time I go into the coop or run. My husband and I have had to make sure we go out several times a day and close the reds out of the coop just so the chicks can come out for a bit.

So, I decided to put the two reds in the smaller, pre-fab coop/run by themselves. Funny, they seem happy to be there. The other hens are getting along fine with the chicks, now. (So far, at least.) I feel bad, but maybe when all of the chicks get old enough and big enough, I will try to re-integrate the reds.

More snow here. Again, quite a bit more than I expected. And going to get cold again. We finally broke down and bought an additional waterer w/heater to put in the smaller coop/run. Couldn't keep up with defrosting!
 
trochefarm said:
I tried moving my three older (10 weeks old, now, I think) chicks into the big-girls' coop and run. I put a small pet travel carrier in there and set it up so that the chicks could get in and out, but the big girls couldn't get in. (Thanks to everyone who shared that idea!) My Australorp and Easter Egger don't bother the chicks at all. The RIRs, though, are just plain mean! They even attack me, now, nearly every time I go into the coop or run. My husband and I have had to make sure we go out several times a day and close the reds out of the coop just so the chicks can come out for a bit.

So, I decided to put the two reds in the smaller, pre-fab coop/run by themselves. Funny, they seem happy to be there. The other hens are getting along fine with the chicks, now. (So far, at least.) I feel bad, but maybe when all of the chicks get old enough and big enough, I will try to re-integrate the reds.

More snow here. Again, quite a bit more than I expected. And going to get cold again. We finally broke down and bought an additional waterer w/heater to put in the smaller coop/run. Couldn't keep up with defrosting!
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RIR's are notorious for being dominate. even overly so, but they make up for it in egg production. My MEAN ( but never to us) RIR finally calmed down after three years but I also got a rooster at that time although she was horrid to him too. This year, she is mellow and not aggro to any of the new birds.
If you need info on hatching, there is a sticky on the front page of the Incubating and hatching forum that will get you through most any issue. It is a must read!!!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/704328/diary-notes-air-cell-detatched-shipped-eggs
There is more info and links here than just the title. , done by Sally Sunshine.
 
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