Come hatch along with us!!! Last sets of the year! 10-18 to 11-7

[Roxannemc]

Started 75 chicken eggs on 10/16 and are due on 11/6 and another 24 are due on 11/10.  But today I have two eggs that are getting ready to hatch. Only took 18 days.  I turn them myself and I'm very excited to watch them come out.  These are my 2nd time incubating.

Very cool! Good luck!

 

[Brookhavens]

Crissy....you are right.. let that wrong end baby take its time.The veins have to dry up.If there is blood it isnt ready.For future referrence
There is a youtube video on helping an egg hatch.zYou dont ever want to go fast and you want to run your humidity up to its highest point you are aiming for before opening the bator if others have pipped.Also in the case of wrong end pip you need to carefully pick some shell off and tear a tiny bit of membrane but just enough for it to breath.. no more or you can kill it make it bleed to death.however any other non hatch situation you pick off some shell slowly with a tweezers but do NOT pull off the membrane.As long as they can breath they can be ok.Watch the video about helping and never do if they have pipped unless over 12 or more hours have passed.There ls no blood in a normal hatch at all.Good luck on all your babies

Great post Roxanne!!!

 

[Brookhavens]

I have learned so much by reading all of your posts. Thanks so much.

That's why these hatch threads are so much fun. You get to make new friends and you learn a lot from what happens during everyone's hatches.

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

SUCESS!!!! Ultra-Bator mk I operational!!!!!. Not turners yet of course and currently just using light bulbs for heat. Timing the heating cycle right now

UPDATE: Holds temp freaking amazingly. 180w of lights is not enough for responsive control of the temp and recovery of said temps. Takes about 90 seconds per degree of increase. To me that is too slugish. I will try bigger bulbs just to see if jumping to 300w makes a difference or not. In theory i could add another bulb or even 2, but honestly the bulbs are temp for me to play around with it. Going to order 225w heating elements for permanent heat source.

 

[kizanne]

SUCESS!!!! Ultra-Bator mk I operational!!!!!. Not turners yet of course and currently just using light bulbs for heat. Timing the heating cycle right now

UPDATE: Holds temp freaking amazingly. 180w of lights is not enough for responsive control of the temp and recovery of said temps. Takes about 90 seconds per degree of increase. To me that is too slugish. I will try bigger bulbs just to see if jumping to 300w makes a difference or not. In theory i could add another bulb or even 2, but honestly the bulbs are temp for me to play around with it. Going to order 225w heating elements for permanent heat source.

congratz. I know my long term plans include a homemade incubator. I figure I'll take parts from my cheap LG's and make a better one. I plan on having some bricks to help hold temp. A large and small way to access and of course a water well but self filling would be my goal.

 

[Roxannemc]

Day20 ...get up humidity is at 48...I panic throw water in come back 20 minutes later humidity is 90!
Open the bator to bring it down nothing take out both wet rags stlll.It should have dropped like a rock when i opened the bator... but even out in room air dropped slowly.Great.Dont know where i am now.My other hydrometer is old and had pine shavings in it put it in it never has come off the 50 it was on.
Just added plastic wrap and a paper towel seems to be dropping a little.Hope it needs it.Ahhh the fun of hatching!Always some new crisis...now 83...guess the eggs need the humidity after they went so low...I hope.Think i better go buy a hydrometer today.
See Crissy ....panic even after a summer of hatches!!NEVER ENDS

Update...4pm now... have the new cheap hygrometer/thermometer in (Think CHEAP) .All Wally had .$3
but its reading the same as the one in there so guess its right .
No egg action yet only the 3 little eggs worth thinking about although the others are in and one smells.(.NOT GOOD!) Im taking a chance!.

 

[Brookhavens]

Day20 ...get up humidity is at 48...I panic thrrow water in come back 20 minutes later humidity is 90!
Open the bator to bring it down nothing take out both wet rags stll the same.Wonder now if the hydrometert is broken as it didnt move but 3 digitts even when I removed it from the bator completely.It should have dropped like a rock when i opened the bator... but even out in room air dropped slowly.Great.Dont know whete i am now.My other hydrometer is old and had pine shavings in it put it in it never has come off the 50 it was on.
Just added plastic wrap and a paper towel seems to be dropping a little.Hope it needs it.Ahhh the fun of hatching!Aleays some new crisis...now 83...gurss they need the humidity after they went so low...I hope.Think i better go buy a hydrometer today.

make sure to calibrate the new one before you use it. I ordered a bunch of these and they have never failed me yet:

Analog Hygrometer

 

[maryhysong]

make sure to calibrate the new one before you use it. I ordered a bunch of these and they have never failed me yet:

Analog Hygrometer

how do you calibrate one?

 

[SilverDuck284]

Day20 ...get up humidity is at 48...I panic thrrow water in come back 20 minutes later humidity is 90!
Open the bator to bring it down nothing take out both wet rags stll the same.Wonder now if the hydrometert is broken as it didnt move but 3 digitts even when I removed it from the bator completely.It should have dropped like a rock when i opened the bator... but even out in room air dropped slowly.Great.Dont know whete i am now.My other hydrometer is old and had pine shavings in it put it in it never has come off the 50 it was on.
Just added plastic wrap and a paper towel seems to be dropping a little.Hope it needs it.Ahhh the fun of hatching!Aleays some new crisis...now 83...gurss they need the humidity after they went so low...I hope.Think i better go buy a hydrometer today.

If your humidity was stable and not too high throughout incubation then don't worry too much for lockdown. As long as they lost the moisture they needed to, they wont drown. At this point, more is better than less, you don't want them to shrink wrap. Keep your rags damp, and keep an eye on them.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Chrissy everybody panics here and there during a hatch...first or 20th.Its always stressful.Your doing fine.

oh yeah everytime