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

[abbysilkys]

EXCELLENT! 
what temp did you run?  fan or no fan?
how old were eggs? washed or no?  turned in cool spot during storage? shipped or your own? how old is flock?

Eggs were a week old or less and they were kept in a cool spot during storage with big end up. No fan for first week but got new incubator with fan for last two. I ran 101-102 without fan, but temp did fluctuate a lot and with fan it's staying pretty constant around 99.3-99.7. Not shipped eggs and not my eggs either, we drove 1.5 hours to get the eggs and I don't know the age of the flock. I don't know if she washed the eggs but I know I didn't.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: hows the babies? the human kind

Wild and rotten.



Climbing trees at church.

nothing like climbing trees!! gotta do it while they can

Quote:

dont make me smak you

Quote: beautiful!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: ok them bunnies started to get cute? lol

Quote: ok, so you have four thermo hygros and you honestly feel they are acurate, like with the room temp etc? if not please calibrate.
Next, what bator a styro bator? how much flux are you getting? can you try heat sinks? round stones in the bottom or if no turner glass ball jars to help fill it up and hold heat? can you put a blanket or something around it to keep it more steady or set in a better place? no sun on and off of it? I would bump up the temp and try more for 99.7 to 100.5 in that range.

next humidity.... did you read that info I gave? what humidity did you start running at? most of us start at 30 35 and adjust after day seven as needed.

you hand turn? if so amount of times

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: hows the babies? the human kind

Wild and rotten.



Climbing trees at church.

nothing like climbing trees!! gotta do it while they can

Quote:

dont make me smak you

Quote: beautiful!
Hello, Darlin'

How y'all is?
Decent day down here, finally

 

[mlm Mike]

HATCH update!! need them done, need to clean that bator!! SET EGGS SET EGGS SET EGGS

I need another brooder way too many in one​

I think ten more pipped and three more chicks drying in bator, Please dont double stack to hatch like I just did. I killed three serama as I didnt see zips start on bottoms and well oopsies!! ughh​

Awwwww

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hello, Darlin'

How y'all is?
Decent day down here, finally

Im ok, yes they do want it warmer, but that means all this mess is melting and yeah muddddd city for a few weeks, but I did see they want wind, and then guess what, four days of RAIN!!! ughhhhh

 

[DwayneNLiz]

No, they are not shipped. I got my eggs from a local lady with thirty chickens. I don't know what they are fed or how old they are, but I have to get my eggs from her because I need eggs from around the same elevation as me. I started with a still air incubator and then got a forced air incubator after about a week of incubating.

i did see your elevation thats why i asked about the shipping

HATCH update!! need them done, need to clean that bator!! SET EGGS SET EGGS SET EGGS

I need another brooder way too many in one​

I think ten more pipped and three more chicks drying in bator, Please dont double stack to hatch like I just did. I killed three serama as I didnt see zips start on bottoms and well oopsies!! ughh​

i want chicklets!!!
i have eggs coming though, once nights stay above 40ish
and i think you are crazy to stack the hatching eggs

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Im ok, yes they do want it warmer, but that means all this mess is melting and yeah muddddd city for a few weeks, but I did see they want wind, and then guess what, four days of RAIN!!! ughhhhh

lol, my mud is frozen at the moment if you want to come visit LOL

 

[dan26552]

 

[daxigait]

howdy back at You Dax... How are things?

Fine outside of work. I am trying to get my time arranged so I can start conditioning for my trip.
What are you up to?