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

[Sparkle110]

unfortunately not much can be done at this point. Temps need calibrated, try to never get flux under 99.5 or over 101. I actually run calibrated 100.5 in all bators until lockdown. I dont have to add water much until lockdown when its humid here in PA. I run typically at 35% and just keep watch after 7 days candling a few here and there every two days or so just to keep an eye on them. shipped eggs always loose more weight so them I normally need to up humidity a bit. Only things that cause late are those, but you will have to eggtopsy and try to see when they died in the shell to get an idea of what goes wrong. Still keep hope and do you have the assisting article? @BantyChooks is there a way you can get that article over on the new Site somehow?

Thanks for the help, do you think Peace and myself will have to do assited hacthing at this point, or is it too soon?

@Sally Sunshine @BantyChooks

 

[kwhites634]

 

[Honora]

My friend in Ireland sent me a message this morning. Made me think of you.

Ha ha! It is always cold and dark there. When we are there in the summer the sun comes out from behind the clouds for like 1 hour a day and I run outside to soak up the rays, lol.

 

[BantyChooks]

Thanks for the help, do you think Peace and myself will have to do assited hacthing at this point, or is it too soon?

@Sally Sunshine
 @BantyChooks

I'd say too soon. You hearing chirping at all?

 

[Phage]

 
unfortunately not much can be done at this point.  Temps need calibrated, try to never get flux under 99.5  or over 101.  I actually run calibrated 100.5 in all bators until lockdown.  I dont have to add water much until lockdown when its humid here in PA.  I run typically at 35% and just keep watch after 7 days candling a few here and there every two days or so just to keep an eye on them.  shipped eggs always loose more weight so them I normally need to up humidity a bit.  Only things that cause late are those, but you will have to eggtopsy and try to see when they died in the shell to get an idea of what goes wrong.  Still keep hope and do you have the assisting article?  @BantyChooks
  is there a way you can get that article over on the new Site somehow? 

Thanks for the help, do you think Peace and myself will have to do assited hacthing at this point, or is it too soon?

@Sally Sunshine
 @BantyChooks

Not Sally or Banty but IMO you really don't know when they will be ready to hatch due to the low temp.

As long as it was not tooooo low some may hatch when they are ready.

If you intervene too early you are going to get unabsorbed yolks and open navels.

I would rely on nature here to let them come if and when they are ready.

Eggs have been hatching for millions of years without assistance and if incubation was messed up, assisted hatching rarley fixes the chicks and they remain weak if they survive.

I know it is trendy on this site to dive in with any late hatching egg, but better (I think) to focus on getting a great incubation process of the next batch of eggs.

Anywho... Fingers crossed for these ones. They may be just fine only a bit late.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Not Sally or Banty but IMO you really don't know when they will be ready to hatch due to the low temp.

As long as it was not tooooo low some may hatch when they are ready.

If you intervene too early you are going to get unabsorbed yolks and open navels.

I would rely on nature here to let them come if and when they are ready.

Eggs have been hatching for millions of years without assistance and if incubation was messed up, assisted hatching rarley fixes the chicks and they remain weak if they survive.

I know it is trendy on this site to dive in with any late hatching egg, but better (I think) to focus on getting a great incubation process of the next batch of eggs.

Anywho... Fingers crossed for these ones. They may be just fine only a bit late.
Exactly!

 

[campingshaws]

Whites, you see today's adventure in snakes?

 

[kwhites634]

Whites, you see today's adventure in snakes?

I sure did! I've seen rat snakes with that same pattern here; scary 'cause it looks much like one of the nasty ones.....copperhead?
Every one I've seen on this place has been the regular black, with the white belly.

 

[campingshaws]

Whites, you see today's adventure in snakes?

I sure did! I've seen rat snakes with that same pattern here; scary 'cause it looks much like one of the nasty ones.....copperhead? 
Every one I've seen on this place has been the regular black, with the white belly.

Water moccasin. Cotton mouth. That's the one we see the most of. We used to have a camp dog, little feist-sized terrier of some sort, who would sniff them out and then agitate it til someone killed it. She got bit on the nose, nearly killed her. Every bite after that was less severe until she was practically immune.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Water moccasin. Cotton mouth. That's the one we see the most of. We used to have a camp dog, little feist-sized terrier of some sort, who would sniff them out and then agitate it til someone killed it. She got bit on the nose, nearly killed her. Every bite after that was less severe until she was practically immune.

I was judging a field trial once when the handler's dog pointed a Copperhead. Nobody got hurt. Another friend is a pro trainer west of here, closer to the mountain; he kills 2 or 3 rattlers every year when he's training.