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

[Knittycat]

Houston, TX
Sunday 11:00 AM
Clear

66​

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Precipitation: 0%
Humidity: 35%
Wind: 8 mph

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Should be 77 later

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hey Sally, I've started up the Hatcher to make sure I can get the right humidity for "dry" hatching. Is 67% too high? I'm having difficultly getting 60-65%. My concern is when they start hatching, spikes of 70 plus. I can buy some different size trays but would prefer not to since the coolerbator is going to be packed! What do you think?

How are the spitz chicks thus morning?

uggg on the chicks

I think your fine, I tend to have more stuck chicks if its in the low 60's. I thought it was the fan in the cooler bator but now I use the old styro as hatcher so it must be just the dry hatch method and winter in the lower level with the coal stove running full blast. I am finding out that humidity is NO SET NUMBER, you must be able to adapt to each weather predicament in your house! For example, Septembers pain in the butt rain and I couldnt get the humidity under 40-45 with NO water in it, and now it can dip to 18% quicker than a fly poops!

You will need to take all these variables and figure out what works for your bator.

If I am running 35-45 on dry hatch I will not run over 65 lockdown (then when they begin hatch it goes well upper 70s, all normal)
and if I have 20-35 on dry hatch I will up to 70-74 lockdowns, I learned to go with my gut and how I have been running for the first 18 days.

Oh Lordy does that make any sense to you!! I am so sorry, I can write very well today can I!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Houston, TX
Sunday 11:00 AM
Clear

66
°F | °C​

Precipitation: 0%
Humidity: 35%
Wind: 8 mph

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Should be 77 later ​

STINKER!!! LOL

 

[3Dchicken]

This is Juliet on FF! (fermented feed)

& Juliet after her bath and haircut! If this doesnt work, the silkies will NOT get FF anylonger as I had a terrible time cleaning her up since its at her face and nostrils, I pray I didnt hurt her with all that water at her face! I cut most of her poof off, one plus is that she can finally see as you always had too much poof it covered her entire face. I had to be VERY CAREFUL not to cut her wattles under that mess at her beak too! She loved the meal worms at blow dryer break times!

Wow! What a change!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

'cuz California sucks. Texas is much better, and the weather is comparable.

 

[3Dchicken]

Hey Sally, I've started up the Hatcher to make sure I can get the right humidity for "dry" hatching. Is 67% too high? I'm having difficultly getting 60-65%. My concern is when they start hatching, spikes of 70 plus. I can buy some different size trays but would prefer not to since the coolerbator is going to be packed! What do you think?

How are the spitz chicks thus morning?

I think that the humidity is a bit high for dry incubation, but it doesn't seem bad. I have difficulty getting the humidity above 50.

I would move in a heartbeat, somewhere unpoplulated! I need fishing hiking shade and well of course a farm! LOL
I like the simple life, everyone can have their theaters, food, and shopping as I would sooner sit by a campfire with family or go swimming in the pool at night and garden during the day!
DH says he would move but how does one even start to figure out where to go!

Rock, I actually started another bucket of FF going this morning...... I decided to use one bucked for 3-4 days while the other stews. So I dumped the rest of the FF whole grains into the current layer FF and started an all new bucket with some fresh acv and added the whole grains right in it since it will set for that long anyways, less buckets. I will TRY to keep at least some liquid in the FF I rotate out and back in..... will let you know how it goes, but I am thinking it will work better as the Fermenting process will be alot longer this way and maybe even get food consumption down even more... its really cold out today again and I noticed they are eating like pigs again.... come on SPRING or at least warmer weather! I hate frozen waterers!
a few are hanging on

a few are just layin there breathing

I thought I was having a pretty good week too

I hope they live!

 

[3Dchicken]

Prince Edward Island
Sunday 3:00 PM
Light rain

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Precipitation: 60%
Humidity: 100%
Wind: 24 km/h

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[3Dchicken]

There is supposed to be a storm later today to tomorrow. Why couldn't it have started on Tuesday?! There is no school/work tomorrow anyway!

 

[Rockashelle]

uggg on the chicks

I think your fine, I tend to have more stuck chicks if its in the low 60's. I thought it was the fan in the cooler bator but now I use the old styro as hatcher so it must be just the dry hatch method and winter in the lower level with the coal stove running full blast.  I am finding out that humidity is NO SET NUMBER, you must be able to adapt to each weather predicament in your house!  For example, Septembers pain in the butt rain and I couldnt get the humidity under 40-45 with NO water in it, and now it can dip to 18% quicker than a fly poops!

You will need to take all these variables and figure out what works for your bator.  

If I am running 35-45 on dry hatch I will not run over 65 lockdown (then when they begin hatch it goes well upper 70s, all normal)
and if I have 20-35 on dry hatch I will up to 70-74 lockdowns, I learned to go with my gut and how I have been running for the first 18 days.

Oh Lordy does that make any sense to you!!  I am so sorry, I can write very well today can I!

Perfect sense! I'm finding the same. During the freeze I had to add more surface area than I did during the wet and rainy. The new house is higher up in the mountains and rainier (LOL, no other way to say it... Rains more) and I've had to use less water. Even a thimble of water surface area bordered 35% humidity days 1-18. Uggh!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I went out in shorts and my Tshirt and froze grabbing eggs!! OMG!!! wind chill!!