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

[cochins1088]

My new thermometer won't arrive for a few more days.

If my hatch was 1.5 days late, is it safe to assume that I could raise the temperature 1/2 a degree Fahrenheit?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Woo-hoo! My first 2014 chick has hatched. A silver laced cochin bantam.

I am waiting for my last staggered hatch egg to hatch. I am collecting for the next round so will see if the nice weather is making any difference in fertility and water loss. Although the humidity is climbing with spring.

Sally I'm so excited one of the six hatch. But the one you wrote on I tried assisting (thinking it was dead)has a sticky water covering it. I can't see where the head is, and am afraid of it drowning or if I help I can harm it. What should I do. Ozzzzzz help.

when did the other hatch? and nothing from any of the others? I cant tell you what to do other than what I wrote in the assist article, not sure what you did or where your at.

 

[cochins1088]

Sally I'm so excited one of the six hatch. But the one you wrote on I tried assisting (thinking it was dead)has a sticky water covering it. I can't see where the head is, and am afraid of it drowning or if I help I can harm it. What should I do. Ozzzzzz help.

Can you take a picture?

Is it responsive?

Has it internally pipped?

How do the veins look?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

My new thermometer won't arrive for a few more days.

If my hatch was 1.5 days late, is it safe to assume that I could raise the temperature 1/2 a degree Fahrenheit?

I would say so.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

coch I thought I read somewhere that the schools are instructed to run hotter like 102.5 I know I will always run 100-100.5 and if it would happen to go to 101.5 I wont freak for sure!

 

[cochins1088]

coch I thought I read somewhere that the schools are instructed to run hotter like 102.5 I know I will always run 100-100.5 and if it would happen to go to 101.5 I wont freak for sure!

Ok, I'll change the setting from 100 degrees to 101 degrees. Hopefully that'll help.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: do you have an old school oral thermometer coch? did you re calibrate in icewater, what were the results?

 

[cochins1088]

Quote: do you have an old school oral thermometer coch? did you re calibrate in icewater, what were the results?

I usually use oral thermometers to get a pot of warm water to 100 degrees. Once they're consistent, I test the incubator thermometers.

I don't think calibrating a thermometer at 32 degrees is as accurate as calibrating it at 100 degrees.

 

[dolfi]

Can you take a picture?

Is it responsive?

Has it internally pipped?

How do the veins look?

It would not let me put the pictures

 

[subhanalah]

I usually use oral thermometers to get a pot of warm water to 100 degrees.  Once they're consistent, I test the incubator thermometers.

I don't think calibrating a thermometer at 32 degrees is as accurate as calibrating it at 100 degrees.

can you explain how you get the water to 100 without using a thermometer to tell you what 100 degrees is?
With freezing, if the water were any colder, it would be ice, so 32 is as low as the temperature will go.

Or do I not understand the calibration process at all?