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

[3Dchicken]

LOL where does the poop come from if they donot eat until they go into the brooder? I didn't know they poop right away....omgoodness ...Hope has lots of food heehee at least she will not go hungry. If you can't find any other chicks for her you should invest in some chicken diapers so she can stay in the house with you....my 4 stayed in with me until they were 7months old but they are a small breed. We also had to run the rooster out to the coop at 3am a few times so he didn't wake the neighbours. haha

She was in the incubator all week. She is 5 days old. She had food with her in the incubator. That's why there was poo

 

[3Dchicken]

And the stuff in the incubator was mostly food spread everywhere cause I couldn't fit the feeder in there with her.

 

[3Dchicken]

But she is all alone in there. Wouldn't that make her sad?

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

Hey y'all, I've been thinking, and I'm starting to wonder if maybe my duck is the one laying all the eggs? She sure does look like she's trying to go broody and she's a call duck so she's small enough to lay chicken-sized eggs... They're light blue/green eggs like they should be for a duck of her kind, and I've only been getting one egg per day for over a week, even though I have two chickens, so... Is it possible that my duck is the one laying?

 

[sumi]

But she is all alone in there. Wouldn't that make her sad?

She will be lonely, unless you find her a friend or 2 or spent a lot of time with her. Put a mirror and a cuddly toy in the brooder for her. I had a lone chick that we raised and when he wanted attention and I couldn't help I tucked him under a feather duster in his brooder. That usually worked.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Well it may be the higher temp... we do 100-100.5 degrees throughout and then 99 degrees during hatch..... and then I reduce to 97-98 when they all are drying in there......

I do the dry hatch keeping above 28%- 30% and def below 45% and then I up to 60% for lockdown and then it naturally goes up as they hatch into the 70 even 80s!! I dont fuss anymore lol

OK HERE GOES..... Sumi just close your eyes and ears!
TRICK I have is that coolerbator and what I think also is great is how quickly humidity goes up if you OPEN IT UP, and I am an opener! YES I OPEN THE BATOR FOR PIPS!!! NOT IN MY STYRO BATOR EVER!!! uggg that thing is a beast!

GOT THAT??? I said it!!

I OPEN THE BATOR.... ONLY BECAUSE I KNOW within a minute or two its up again! I am a serious PIP OPENER.... if one pips and I dont see it actually OPEN up a hole (meaning a hole, not just a crack) within about 2-3 hrs I will open a tiny one at the pipcrack just enough to see that little beak and that its free...and I create a little air hole like 1/4" maybe!!! I am talking tiny pip hole..... and usually they hatch 6-8 hrs after that..some much sooner.IF THEY DO NOT finish after that time, I will open the tops AIR CELL ONLY and wet and wait until they are ready and get out on their own! BUT AGAIN I ONLY DO THIS BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE HUMIDITY ISSUES and I AM WITH THEM NON STOP DURING HATCH!! DO I suggest this??? NO I DO NOT! WHY? because of humidity AND SHRINK WRAPPING!!!

ALSO, if I do cause a shrink wrapped chick which I did not this time.... and if it gets stuck after an internal pip I can help it quickly and know what I am doing.... I candle mark air cell and aprox internal pip with marker and pip for it, same waiting game then.... a trick I learned when making a pip for an internal pip is that TYPICALLY their beak is at the lower dip in the air cell, NOT ALWAYS the case, so I always candle and double check with a tap and listen to the chirping location! BUT I ALWAYS let them kick free and NEVER take membrane away other than beak and when its finish absorbing, but usually when you keep them wet, they will do that themselves, because when they have absorbed all that good stuff and it gives them strength... and they are ready to kick out and strong all on their own!

AGAIN I DO NOT SUGGEST THIS, NOR WOULD I EVER DO THIS IN MY STYRO BATOR!!!! Humiditiy REALLY IS A BIG issue with hatching!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: eeeewwwwww

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Bay swans! cool sumi!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hey everyone GOOD MORNING!

We have started Lockdown! Now I know our humidity has to be an ideal 60-70% but if it is more will that harm them? We are working with a home-made incubator so I donot have plugs and stuff like that. We lined the bottom under the wire w moist napkins, and then 2 jars full of water with napkins hanging out. I do have a small hole on one side of the bater to stick a medicine dropper in if needed to add more water. We set up everything at 9am, we started early so temps could stable by 2pm when our official lockdown begins. Right now we are at 53% humidity and the temp is at 88...and rising. I am guessing because we had everything open to rearrange things.

AWESOME you so have this under control!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hope's brooder!

The incubator filled with poop.

THIS IS HER FOOD! That big sack right there? Yup, that's all for Hope! Omigoodness

This is so sweet.

She loves her brooder already, basking in the heat!

LOL she is spoiled all ready!! HOLY FEEDNESS!!! HE HE HE