Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[Sparkypatriot15]

Cappas been of her nest for a long time and settled down in the corner of the coop with her chicks so I moved the remaining eggs there. She is currently sitting on them and hopefully will sit long enough for the already-pipped egg to warm back up and hatch, and hopefully save the others... If not, Joey, my duck, is currently broody and I could put then under her. I leave tomorrow so I will be moving Cappa and her chicks into a smaller coop filled with bedding, food, and water for her to raise her brood. I will either move the unhatched eggs with her or put them under Joey...

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

Ok nevermind crisis avoided! I moved Cappas chicks an eggs over to an artificial nest in the Little Coop and replenished it with fresh food, water, and bedding and Cappa moved over there and sat on the eggs and now everything's fine the eggs were only left out for about 10 to 15 mins I believe.

 

[chicksooner]

Bator is plugged in and warm. Candling everyone tonight and letting the broodies keep the eggs that are due and putting the rest in the bator. I have a buyer for all my extra chicks. 90s and triple digits predicted for next week so these girls better hatch some babies and get their fluffy butts off their nests.

 

[Toast n Jelly]

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I pray you don't get any mold in the bator, does your home have issues with mold and stuff? never really thought about that stuff where your at! I guess not because you never had issues.

Does Bernie have a larger fan to install in the bator or several more small ones?

also I ran into this because our parents have a small stream in their old house basement, we were trying to help them out in turn they decided to call a HVAC guy and he switched out their dehumidifier unit. But in your case maybe you can switch parts on your dehumidifier later on? IDK if this will mean anything to you, just thought to share it just in case
http://www.totalairsupply.com/6 August 07 Humidity Facts.pdf

Why is a TEV (thermal expansion valve)
better for humidity removal than a fixed
bore (piston) metering device?
When a unit doesn’t have capacity
control such as a fixed bore metering device,
most humidity control issues occur at part
load (lower dry bulb temperatures but still
having high humidity) conditions.
Because we use dry bulb
thermostats to control the equipment, run
times will be shorter on part load cycles
which will also reduce humidity removal.
Oversized equipment will make part
load conditions even worse for the occupant
because it will bring the space to its set dry​

bulb temperature. Short run times only

remove sensible heat (heat added or
removed to raise or lower temperature) but
does nothing about removing the latent heat
(heat added or removed to change the state
such as ice to water, water to vapor, or vise
versa) in the water vapor. In a nutshell, less
run time equals less humidity removal.
Changing the metering device to a
thermal expansion valve will give maximum
evaporator capacity at part load conditions
because it utilizes more coil surface for​

moisture control.
He may have a point, actually rice does soak up humidity. People put rice in sugar containers so that the sugar can be poured out smoothly and not stick together. Can you imagine the amount of swollen rice Bernie could have each day?

Just add meat and supper is ready! You need to give that boy some credit for thinking outside of the box.

OMG now that you said that, when was in college he bought huge bag of rice and trash bag to put his laptop inside when he spilt something on it! AND IT WORKED! and I swear his cell phone lived in a ziplockricebag! perhaps we should paten ziplockricecellphone cASES ????

 

[Waffle]

This is weird the other night I heard a chicken chirp, then this morning I'm sure I heard it again. Now I keep dreaming about my chicks hatching lol lol, my husband said he thought he heard it.. just now I heard it again!!!! Other than the turkey hatching whenever that we aren't sure of my others are due on the 12th

 

[lizanne]

I've looked into the causes for malpositions because I also set "by the book", perfect temp and humidity, turn them religiously and still get the odd one. They sometimes end up hatching by themselves, so give yours plenty time.

I found so far, that malpositions are caused by incorrect setting (pointy end up or slightly higher that fat end), humidity too high, temp too high or too low during incubation, (higher incidence in) eggs from older hens, round shaped or very big eggs, nutritional deficiencies (vit A and B12), eggs stored too long pre-incubation and handled too roughly pre-incubation. Hope that helps.

I've been wondering about the vitamin thing. If they egg lets oxygen and carbon dioxide in and out of it, and if they egg could get bacteria in side of it (from dirty hands, incubator, ect) Could it absorb water soluble vitamins if you put a couple drops in the water tray at the bottom of the incubator? -- Just something I've been thinking about...

 

[lizanne]

I have searched and searched until I was into reading stuff well well over my head, I keep getting the same stuff but without any reasons or facts. and as much as I am hatching I still cannot pin point it to any specific reasons or breeds either.

I think it might just be one of those things that just happens sometimes. Like when babies are born breach or "sunny side up". I wonder if you could have something to do with the hen that laid them. It would be cool to set eggs separated by hen (maybe collect a weeks worth of eggs) and see if any of them has a higher number a malpositions than the others.

 

[ozexpat]

I've been wondering about the vitamin thing. If they egg lets oxygen and carbon dioxide in and out of it, and if they egg could get bacteria in side of it (from dirty hands, incubator, ect) Could it absorb water soluble vitamins if you put a couple drops in the water tray at the bottom of the incubator? -- Just something I've been thinking about...

if you put it on the shell they could but they have no methods to excrete excess - you and i pee most supplemental vitamins out. you would probably poison the chick

 

[lizanne]

if you put it on the shell they could but they have no methods to excrete excess - you and i pee most supplemental vitamins out. you would probably poison the chick

So it couldn't evaporate off, when the air cell gets bigger? I guess you would have a hard time regulating how much went in and out of the egg.

 

[ozexpat]

So it couldn't evaporate off, when the air cell gets bigger? I guess you would have a hard time regulating how much went in and out of the egg.

co2 o2 and h2o are very small molecules vit b12 has 63 carbon atoms 89 hydrogen atoms and 14 oxygen atoms - as well as others.