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

[The Duck Ladie]

Set my 16 duck eggs a few hours ago! Do I turn today? I thought I read to leave them alone till day 2...

 

[microchick]

C'mon guys, FOCUS!

I asked a question about two pages back and still no answer. This is EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION AND HATCHING isn't it? I appreciate the lively conversation. I started my nursing career as an OB LABOR/DELIVERY/NURSERY nurse and could write a lot about why things work the way they do and what happens when they don't go right even when everything is done by protocol but that is not what my question was about.

Would somebody please page back and toss an answer out for me?

Anything? I'm not asking for much. My husband just asked me if anybody answered my question for me because he had asked me and I didn't know the answer and I had to tell him no, they were talking about C-Sections and his reply was "On Chickens?"

 

[BantyChooks]

Set my 16 duck eggs a few hours ago! Do I turn today? I thought I read to leave them alone till day 2...

That is only for shipped eggs. Yes, turn today.

 

[The Duck Ladie]

That is only for shipped eggs. Yes, turn today.

Thanks Banti!

 

[BantyChooks]

C'mon guys, FOCUS!

I asked a question about two pages back and still no answer. This is EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION AND HATCHING isn't it? I appreciate the lively conversation. I started my nursing career as an OB LABOR/DELIVERY/NURSERY nurse and could write a lot about why things work the way they do and what happens when they don't go right even when everything is done by protocol but that is not what my question was about.

Would somebody please page back and toss an answer out for me? Anything? I'm not asking for much. My husband just asked me if anybody answered my question for me because he had asked me and I didn't know the answer and I had to tell him no, they were talking about C-Sections and his reply was "On Chickens?"

Lol, sorry!!

I wouldn't try it... Monkeying with room temp oftentimes has disastrous results.

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

Set my 16 duck eggs a few hours ago! Do I turn today? I thought I read to leave them alone till day 2...

Good luck and give us updates, Cathrine!Ive never read about duck eggs but I agree with Banty!

 

[minihorse927]

Hi everyone, I have a quick question. Next Saturday I will be putting my eggs in lock down. So far so good. 11 out of 11 are still viable and developing. It's getting harder to visualize anything in the darker brown eggs so I am strictly looking for air cell expansion in them.

My brooder is set up in our 'hobby room' a room accessible by two doors that can be closed to keep our dogs and cats at bay. The room is sunny, no drafts, etc. Presently my incubator is sitting on my kitchen counter top where I can keep an eye on things.

When I put the eggs into lock down, is it feasible, since I have the eggs out of the incubator at that time anyway in order to put the padding down for the chicks and do a final candling, to move the incubator to the family room and set it in the brooder (Brooder is 26 by 30 some inches) to make it easier to transfer dry chicks out of the incubator to ease crowding and yet keep the chicks nearby so unhatched babies can hear them or will the added heat from the brooder lights raise the incubator temp dangerously high?

I would not move the incubator. Differences in temperature and humidity during lockdown can be disasterous for the unhatched babies. Best leave them where they are

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Set my 16 duck eggs a few hours ago! Do I turn today? I thought I read to leave them alone till day 2...

are they shipped?

C'mon guys, FOCUS!

I asked a question about two pages back and still no answer. This is EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION AND HATCHING isn't it? I appreciate the lively conversation. I started my nursing career as an OB LABOR/DELIVERY/NURSERY nurse and could write a lot about why things work the way they do and what happens when they don't go right even when everything is done by protocol but that is not what my question was about.

Would somebody please page back and toss an answer out for me?

Anything? I'm not asking for much. My husband just asked me if anybody answered my question for me because he had asked me and I didn't know the answer and I had to tell him no, they were talking about C-Sections and his reply was "On Chickens?"

lol sorry i didnt know what to tell you

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I hope my chicks hatch.hope humidity isn't too high

 

[The Duck Ladie]

are they shipped?

Nope! Straight from my coop! (except for the ones the girls decided to lay on the ground...)