EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Ralphie, I missed the lizards - what are they?

Fluff butts! Two blacks and a blueish. The blue one is the biggest and it came from an egg half the size of the other two

No more pips though.

GOOD MORNING, NON-SPORTS PEOPLE, AS WELL AS COWBOYS AND GIANTS FANS! THE REST OF YOU CAN DRINK DECAF.

Thanks, MC!

Good morning everyone guess what.....it's raining!!!!!

Well isn't that a surprise.

Here's hoping the roof holds.

Quote: The pieces of the puzzle are beginning to fit.
Yup - we'll have her geolocated in no time...

Morning all!!

It is a fuzzy Butt day!!

Who needs caffeine to get an adrenaline rush in the morning. You just feed the cat and pet her, go feed the goats, and when you get back from feeding the goats. You lift the tarp that covers the barn opening to find two feet in front of you a pair of skunks eating the food the cat left. That was a wake-up. Good or bad they did not care about me at all. I talked and they only went a couple of feet back on the cat house top (big enclosed crate).

Quote: OMG, I bet you were WIDE awake after that!!!

Day 20 today - I'm about 12 hours behind Dan, set time-wise. I woke up to two pips!!!!

MHP is warming up, brooder is ready, water is measured and ready to be mixed with the Pro-Vit stuff (trying it this time, Sally), gotta get to work. Hope to come home to more pips! (Or maybe even a zip!)





- Ant Farm

 

[Chaos18]

Morning y'all. Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Just to give everyone a laugh for the morning at my expense.
My complaint about this snow/ice mixture of junk we got over the weekend has been the fact that North Carolinians don't know how to handle it. Well turns out neither does a boy from north Alabama. Was cleaning the shed last night and had some empty feed sacks that I for some reason decided to put outside the door. Decided it was time to go in for the night after dark, forgot about the feed bags directly in front of the door. I was dancing for what seemed like forever before finally catching one knee and the opposite hand on the frozen ground. Turns out a plastic feed sack on a sheet of semi-frozen ice is slicker than green duck chit on a frozen pond. Its all good though, everything seems fine this morning. Lesson learned, feed sacks don't go in front of the shed door.

At least your feet didn't end up above your head. Glad to hear you didn't hurt anything badly.

 

[BantyChooks]

Yup - we'll have her geolocated in no time...

Stalker

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I've never taken notice; how does garbage sleep?

 

[Chaos18]

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Day 20 today - I'm about 12 hours behind Dan, set time-wise. I woke up to two pips!!!!

MHP is warming up, brooder is ready, water is measured and ready to be mixed with the Pro-Vit stuff (trying it this time, Sally), gotta get to work. Hope to come home to more pips! (Or maybe even a zip!)





- Ant Farm

 

[campingshaws]

Banti is super easy to find! You just have to offer her something good.

 

[BantyChooks]

Banti is super easy to find! You just have to offer her something good.

Shh, young lady!

 

[kwhites634]

.Good morning, Angel

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: dont you have issues with the boy and stinking (urine?) they are cute!

I need help! This is my first hatch

I put the eggs in our styrofoam incubator yesterday and temps were at 102 and 50% humidity consistently, but over night it jumped to 106 and 16% humidity.... I don't want to loose these chicks. Please help!!

I would have done what Arknarf aka Benny suggested.... since you have no fan you may have been ok and you dont know how long temp was high.... see below.... I will paste some info to help you, @Cassandra K

TIPS TRICKS for Incubators

ADD a LEGO to your dial of cheap styrofoam incubator to make minor adjustments! post #38133
Wrapping an incubator for steadier temperatures post #25454

Are you thermometers calibrated????


A MUST READ***** BASICS!!! INCUBATION QUESTIONS w/answers post #15921

Hatching Eggs 101 CLICK HERE

Shipped Eggs = Change Of Plans! post #53845

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Hi All!

I just put these pictures on the NY HAL thread. This chick was malpositioned, pipped the pointy end and hatched like a Ninja. Kicked out and smashed the shell as he went.

The blue one in front is the Ninja

@BantyChooks section about malpositions

Good morning peeps..... The chicks actually let me sleep last night

chicks....try twelve pups!!! OMG

I took my 4 year old nephew over to see it zip and we got watch it hatch!!! He was soooooo excited!

AND #2 JOINS THE RANKS!!!! This is the one that piped after I went to bed, apparently he was ready to see the world! The first one has quite a muff doesn't it?

I don't know if this has been asked on here yet, too much to read through! But I searched and can't find anything on it...The question I have is, has anyone tried to use a space heater fan/heating element set up in their homemade incubator? It's one of those metal heaters you get from Walmart for $17, the fan blows past heated springs. My husband said the thermostat is shot on it, but he thinks he can make it work with a wafer thermostat (the one Sally Sunshine suggested using). I am making an incubator from a wooden box I have completely lined with 2" styrofoam. We will put the fan beside the egg shelf, so the fan will blow towards the front and the air will circulate past the heated springs, over the eggs and back around to the back before going back in the fan.

What do you all think? Please help, cannot find anyone using anything but light bulbs! Though I certainly have not ruled that out, and don't have a problem with it, but the heater is free.

@10AcreChick you could attempt this, HOWEVER you need to be cautious of the fan sucking moisture out and it could end up to be more of a pain than not. check how much air flow the fan is first.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Morning y'all. Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Just to give everyone a laugh for the morning at my expense.
My complaint about this snow/ice mixture of junk we got over the weekend has been the fact that North Carolinians don't know how to handle it. Well turns out neither does a boy from north Alabama. Was cleaning the shed last night and had some empty feed sacks that I for some reason decided to put outside the door. Decided it was time to go in for the night after dark, forgot about the feed bags directly in front of the door. I was dancing for what seemed like forever before finally catching one knee and the opposite hand on the frozen ground. Turns out a plastic feed sack on a sheet of semi-frozen ice is slicker than green duck chit on a frozen pond. Its all good though, everything seems fine this morning. Lesson learned, feed sacks don't go in front of the shed door.

Edit - sorry, meant to laugh at you here.

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Banti is super easy to find! You just have to offer her something good.

Come get the fuzzy ducky, Banti! Come on, come on... Isn't it a nice cute fuzzy ducky? Don't you want to pet it?



- Ant Farm