Due around 3/26? **non-intervention success story pg 9**

[Chickenfeet]

I have 8 hatched and several more pips. Day 21. You would think I was having a babye

 

[OCchickens]

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Congrats!!

 

[Chickenfeet]

2 more babies, total of 10. 8 more to go in bator.

Did I mention my silkie went broody this morning?

 

[OCchickens]

I'm up to 16 chicks! Here's to dry incubation! One more working away & one silkie egg with no pip

It was rolling around yesterday -- I wonder what happened.

Congrats on the broody, chickenfeet! Do you have your own fertile eggs?

 

[gabrielle1976]

I have a pip I have a pip I have a pip

I even heard a peep I swear I did , I may have been hearing things but my cat shure is intersted in the bator at the moment too.

 

[mediazeal]

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Wow, completely dry? Do you have any idea what the ambient humidity is in your area? Is it fairly high?
It's 45% in my house and with the fan going AND warm water in the wells it is 40% inside the incubator of the hatch I am attempting right now.
I was worried that if I let it run hot and dry in there it would dip too low and dry out the eggs themselves too fast.
So wonder if you just live in a high humidity area and if that is part of the success you are having?

Congrats on your hatch!

 

[OCchickens]

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Wow, completely dry? Do you have any idea what the ambient humidity is in your area? Is it fairly high?
It's 45% in my house and with the fan going AND warm water in the wells it is 40% inside the incubator of the hatch I am attempting right now.
I was worried that if I let it run hot and dry in there it would dip too low and dry out the eggs themselves too fast.
So wonder if you just live in a high humidity area and if that is part of the success you are having?

Congrats on your hatch!

We are in Southern California, and at this time of year humidity in the house is usually low 30's, sometimes in the 20's. I don't run a humidifier although I did use one right when my hatch began & turned it off after humidity in the bator got into the high 60's. While I was doing the completely dry incubation, the humidity in the bator went to single digit & then wouldn't register at all -- weird (this is using a fluker). I had a hard time imagining it was actually getting that dry inside the bator...

I've read about people having trouble getting their humidity up with both plugs open, but I was able to get it into the mid-60's just filling up the 3 troughs on the hova-bator, but then when the hatching started it went into the high 70's & I was thinking I'd made it too humid.

My fluker did correlate with an oregon scientific instrument when I was initially trying out the bator.

 

[OCchickens]

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That's so exciting!! We'll be waiting....

 

[gabrielle1976]

I have one very amazeingly noiesy baby fluff butt .

LOL so if I tossed out a clear and had one left and one hatched does that mean I got 100% hatch my first time,

 

[Huny]

I am actually hatching the 28th, so I'm a bit behind you all, but wish me luck. Last weeks hatch might have screwed up these guys.