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

[Sally Sunshine]

My Duckies

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I want to add, you may have already done, but my conscience wont let me not say it..... Make sure you attach your lighting with nails zipties etc, so that if the birds would happen to fly into them and swing them they wont fall and start a fire. We ALWAYS double Hook and ziptie to hooks so even if one would fail the other will prevent it from falling or reaching anything. I hope that makes sense.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I only have Chads 3 doz eggs, a few of CCL and the polish from sara in the other NEW coolerbator, all others are cleaned and sitting there staring at me. oh and that one has 4 brahma and 3 serama and 5 courntrix in it too. yeah its packed but I didn't candle yet and most of the polish look shot, air cells a mess rolling loose and gross. Eggs were old.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

When do they go in for the night, and do they have FF still inside when you shut them in? I have been worried about them being hungry in the mornings since I began FF last year.

You know MC, I am not sure what will happen with the summer heat. but for now I do keep a tiny bit in the coop at lockup, just because sometimes I don't get out there until 9am and have a kid break to run, grab their feed and throw them open and out. I will have older kids in the summer to help, maybe I can train the kids to "feed and open" coops first thing.

 

[BullChick]

i just heard cheeping!!

 

[Doug Hodges]

Well crap. Heading outside to tie the lights up. Lol

 

[cochins1088]

My Duckies

Do I dare say this again?

There is nothing cuter than a baby duckling, haha.

But seriously Sally, they are adorable.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Incubating question: I have a friend that got a new still air for a hatcher. she moved her eggs over for lock down. Candled and all was well. Nothing hatched. I assumed it was her temp but she said she calibrated a thermometer and it was only 1 degree different from her other one. So the only thing I could think of was having the still air set to 99.5 instead of 102. Any other thought. Oh and the eggs were good. Mine and another local.

did she eggtopsy? coulda been ventilation issues too.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

i just heard cheeping!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Well crap. Heading outside to tie the lights up. Lol