Too late to make changes now. Just raise the humidity and sit on your hands till they hatch.
I too like Sandhill's philosophy. I've gotten about 20 different breeds from them.
As far as the birds go, most were good quality.
I think he does a little too much experimentation crossing up breeds.
A herpes virus that has cost the poultry industry 10s of millions of dollars.
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/90/mareks-disease/
Don't be lost. Raise the humidity a bit and leave the eggs alone till after they all hatch.
High humidity year round here. Unseasonably warm now. It was still 80 F at 10 PM last night. Only got down to 73 overnight. We're going to set a new record high today. 88 is the old record, 91 is forecast.
I do it because with the high temperature, it tends to dry out the internal membrane very quickly.
Not sure how a hen combats that but she doesn't seem to have problems with losing enough egg moisture nor with dry membranes.
The only thing an eggtopsy will tell you is at what point of incubation they quit.
Then you can use the following as a guide to determine things that can cause them to quit at that point.
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00008570/00001/1j
No need to change since a hen's body temperature is the same after day 18 as it is before.
However, since an embryo is generating some heat of its own, you can let it ease down to 99.
Yes I did. The longer I ran it continuously this summer, the more stable it got, That was after a few months of it being all over the place. I've shut it down, hopefully forever. I won't be hatching again till likely December or later.
Will he be able to decipher what to make of that?
Awesome trip. The Ozarks have so many great geologic formations, amazing array of caves and springs.
We went to the harvest festival at Laumeier Sculpture park. Not like natural bridges but the food was great.
Barbecue brisket, pulled pork and burnt ends. The blackberry/ancho chili barbecue sauce was a hit.
My last hatch was 11 of 12 which is 92%. I attribute that to several things. Most of all is that the incubator had finally settled down and I was able to keep it at about 99.5 most of the duration.
The hen had taken the summer off from laying so her body stores of nutrients were high.
If I had not hatched the oldest eggs which were at least 2 weeks old, it would have been 100% and even the oldest egg almost made it to term.
No danger! I've done some dumb things before, but that ain't one of them. I like the flashing idea, though, and I'm at the perfect place in this ongoing nightmare to implement it.
. For lots of pullets. I also hope the ones you traveled to get yeild some great birds to cross with.
