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

[chicksooner]

Dont get me wrong. High humidity is very hard to control. In Wescott's case its probably a major factor.

I just had 15 eggs that pipped or started zipping and just pooped out and died. Big wet soggy chicks in the eggs, That was with a constant humidity of 50%

The thing I have learnt over the last 3 remote hatches is to get as scientific about the hatch as possible. I have been teaching Bernie along the way. He has been candling for the first time this hatch and doing well but in order to really understand, we need to weigh eggs and try to get as close to the dry hatch conditions that I have so much success with in my little SoCal apartment.

So for me - I will now set up a spreadsheet with a dozen sample eggs and have Bernie weigh them every 5 days. I failed to bring a scale on the last two trips so I put one in my laptop case yesterday so I wont forget it on July 3.

I will build into my bator a dehumidifier

this 35 pint machine should dry the bator right up. I will set it at 30% and start from there.

Not all of us will be successful. Environment is a big factor, I can take losing 200 eggs to get 50 chicks.(I will be happier when I hatch 300 but God help me and Bernie when I do) but many cant. If I could buy chicks - and its not an option - it would be much cheaper but then I would not have such a challenge.

You love the challenge as much as the rest of us. I think that is why we all are here. surely that dehumidifier will dry your bator.

 

[chicksooner]

I think it's a combo of inexperience humidity heat fuxuating and wh knows I'm hopefully about this latest set btw when candleing how long is ok for out of the bator right now exterior humidity is 89 and temp is 64

My fingers are crossed for your next hatch. Your fine candling and putting it back. Check in an hour to make sure your temp is right back to where it should be. It should go right back to temp after you close it. If it works better to take a tray out at a time and candle you can do that. Just candle quick and put the tray back. If it is going to take a while a candle each each then I would do one at a time. What day are these eggs? If they are not day 5 or later then I would wait until at least day 5. Day 10 would be better as then you can really tell if something is growing.

After my first incubator experience that completely failed I was considering selling the bator & quitting. I started reading about hatching eggs and found out some bantam eggs are tough to hatch & shipped eggs suck (figured that out lol) mine were both lol not so good for a first timer. Since then my kids discovered ducks & are in love. I started looking around for hatching eggs locally but had no luck. I decided to give shipped eggs one last shot and ordered some duck eggs from eBay. I'm on day 4 and couldn't wait anymore so I candled them expecting to find a bator full of scrambled eggs, to my surprise at least half have visible veins & development. I'm so excited! I know it's not the best hatch rate but since my first batch was a complete fail I'm happy. So far so good :-D

I am glad you are trying again confused. You really need to hatch some local eggs so you can have a little easier hatch with less stress. I think ducks can be tricky but Sally knows ducks and can give you pointers. Good luck!

 

[ozexpat]

yup

i need more

 

[dolfi]

yup

i need more

how on earth did you get that

 

[ozexpat]

how on earth did you get that

google search animated egg gif

 

[wescottwomen]

My fingers are crossed for your next hatch. Your fine candling and putting it back. Check in an hour to make sure your temp is right back to where it should be. It should go right back to temp after you close it. If it works better to take a tray out at a time and candle you can do that. Just candle quick and put the tray back. If it is going to take a while a candle each each then I would do one at a time. What day are these eggs? If they are not day 5 or later then I would wait until at least day 5. Day 10 would be better as then you can really tell if something is growing.
I am glad you are trying again confused. You really need to hatch some local eggs so you can have a little easier hatch with less stress. I think ducks can be tricky but Sally knows ducks and can give you pointers. Good luck!

They are day 7 my 14 yr old is really getting in to it she helped me do the eggtopsys on the last bunch and took the pics and she marked the air sack on these 7 day old ones and remarked on what ones really lit up and what she could see

 

[NestingHillsSC]

yeah he has other plans. But I told him I am not a chick seller and I refuse to do it. I don't like people coming here at all. So not sure what his plans are!

I don't mind. If they try to rob me I'd have to bury them outback!!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Quote:Originally Posted by ozexpat

raining, tropics. 100% cloud cover with a ceiling of 1900 ft = humidity 84%

97% humidity is hot shower running bathroom humidity. i would be dripping

Gets that way here in South Carolina everyday. Actually at night is when the humidity goes up. By 5am the humidity most of the time during spring and summer is around 93%. You walk outside and your instantly wet. The humidity here sucks the life out of most my plants.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

yup

i need more

 

[hillfloweranch]

Doug any replies from Larry??