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

[BantyChooks]

Could I turn a different amount of times on different days?

Some days I turn 3, sometimes 5, and I never saw a difference from the times I turned 5x per day every day.

 

[duluthralphie]

Could I turn a different amount of times on different days?

I would say yes but the anally retentive OCD sufferers (looking at Banti) will disagree with me on that.....

 

[The Duck Ladie]

Some days I turn 3, sometimes 5, and I never saw a difference from the times I turned 5x per day every day.

That's good news!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Yep! And the thing that I found appealing (in addition to being able to fuel them from my pantry in an unexpected outage) is how much safer olive oil lamps are than anything else. Olive oil has a really high flash point, and if the lamp is knocked over it won't start a fire, it'll put itself out. Indeed, to put the lamp out, you just slosh the lamp to douse it with the olive oil. Cool, huh?!

This one has a smaller wick, but I ordered some wider braided wick, which will make it brighter. I also hear that salting the wicks may make them last longer - I might try that.

 

[BantyChooks]

I hatch mine upright I wonder how much difference that make in the turning of them....  I rely on an auto turner too, if I had to hand turn them they would all die.

I have pretty quiet hens they hardly ever move.....so nananaaaa

They don't stand up and flip them, silly, just subtle shifts to keep them evenly heated.

 

[Pensmaster]

I hatch mine upright I wonder how much difference that make in the turning of them....  I rely on an auto turner too, if I had to hand turn them they would all die.

I have pretty quiet hens they hardly ever move.....so nananaaaa

Last broody I had in September never moved an eyelash. Ever. Swear the thing was dead. Hatched 8 of 10.

 

[duluthralphie]

Some days I turn 3, sometimes 5, and I never saw a difference from the times I turned 5x per day every day.

How can you do that and be on a schedule of same time every day?

 

[BantyChooks]

I would say yes but the anally retentive OCD sufferers  (looking at Banti) will disagree with me on that.....

Hey now!! I don't even do hour by hour incubation time charts anymore....

How can you do that and be on a schedule of same time every day?

I do 8, 12, and 8 or 8, 12, 4, 8, and before I hit the sack. So equal amounts of time between turning. Obviously, an hour or two doesn't matter... I'm just saying if you turn every 10 minutes 5 times in the morning and them leave them still for the rest of the day that ain't gonna cut it.

 

[duluthralphie]

Define better.

Better as the rains have stopped, the dam is safe and you do not have to sleep on an air mattress, just in case...

 

[Pensmaster]

Yep! And the thing that I found appealing (in addition to being able to fuel them from my pantry in an unexpected outage) is how much safer olive oil lamps are than anything else. Olive oil has a really high flash point, and if the lamp is knocked over it won't start a fire, it'll put itself out. Indeed, to put the lamp out, you just slosh the lamp to douse it with the olive oil. Cool, huh?!

This one has a smaller wick, but I ordered some wider braided wick, which will make it brighter. I also hear that salting the wicks may make them last longer - I might try that. 

It is cool. Salting as just putting wick into dry salt?