Duckling Diaries: the Life and Times of a Welshie Trio

Oops... I meant 'air cells'. What size were they this time?

Those machines are often wired to require a much too high humidity for some nutty reason. Kind of annoying. SOME people can get away with 50% humidity, but I don't know many. It's mainly those with cabinet bators. Elevation impacts it too.

My oops! I should have read that slower :hmm
The air cells seemed to be getting bigger like I remember last hatch. The last that I could make out just before lock down was around the top third of the eggs, but it was very difficult to see. I was tracing them but the shells were so thick I must need a brighter light, could hardly see anything the last time I went to check. They all three had a slight saddle to some degree, though, since the beginning. I just chalked it up to shipped eggs.

I may need to just let it run dry & tolerate the beeping from now on. The quail used to hatch with no issues at all in that thing, but quail are sorta bomb-proof, I recon. These are the first pure breed I've had in there & only the second non-quail eggs.
:barnie
I guess I are still teh n00blet...
 
My oops! I should have read that slower :hmm
The air cells seemed to be getting bigger like I remember last hatch. The last that I could make out just before lock down was around the top third of the eggs, but it was very difficult to see. I was tracing them but the shells were so thick I must need a brighter light, could hardly see anything the last time I went to check. They all three had a slight saddle to some degree, though, since the beginning. I just chalked it up to shipped eggs.

I may need to just let it run dry & tolerate the beeping from now on. The quail used to hatch with no issues at all in that thing, but quail are sorta bomb-proof, I recon. These are the first pure breed I've had in there & only the second non-quail eggs.:barnie
Quail do best with a humidity about 40%, they'd probably have done just dandy on 50%.
Here's an air cell chart.
 
Quail do best with a humidity about 40%, they'd probably have done just dandy on 50%.
Here's an air cell chart.

Yeah, about like that consistently but irregular shaped...maybe I need a brighter light & should post the eggs continuously until I can eyeball this better.

I wonder if you could cut a wire or something that connects the sensor?

I am gonna have to take it apart when these are done, maybe I should get the solder gun out & play around with it a bit...hmmm, improvements time!
 
Yeah, about like that consistently but irregular shaped...maybe I need a brighter light & should post the eggs continuously until I can eyeball this better.



I am gonna have to take it apart when these are done, maybe I should get the solder gun out & play around with it a bit...hmmm, improvements time!
Irregular's just from shipping. Also, drawdown will make the air cell larger and more tipped; that's normal. The AC measurements are for before drawdown.
 
sigh...well, at least it's early in the season & I can buy more eggs if the other two are little inside out water babies, also...
:hugs Hopefully not. To help prevent it, turn the temp down to 98°F. It slows the hatch and helps the chick be sturdier or something. There were studies on it but I forget the exact results. In your case, it'd give them more time to absorb everything.
 
Here's a story that Ralph will appreciate.

It warmed up nicely a day or so ago, so I tinkered with some coop stuff. I put in a doorstop to keep the bedding from falling out. The chooks got over it fine, the ducks got over it fine. Mission accomplished. So, I leave them alone...

A few hours later I look out the window and see Jules running back and forth in the doorway, looking for all the world like one of those moving shooting galleries you see at the fair. Guess he can only get over the doorstep once. I was cracking up & thinking it's a good thing you're stuck politicking in southern areas!

I put in a step inside after that, so no more shooting gallery... sorry.
 

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