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

[Christinecam]

I don't have a clue about which egg will hatch first. But too much humidity can cause trouble. I would leave that factor alone if your meter is accurate.
Just an opinion. I am not a doctor, but I play one on tv.

HAHA! I'm a doctor to. Well neurodiagnostic tech so might as well be one.

 

[Christinecam]

Yes, and enlarge the surface.

Enlarge the surface?
So far the steps I did was remove the turner and place the eggs on their sides with the lowest part of the air cell facing up. I covered the mesh bottom with a sterile non slip porous cloth. Maybe that is preventing the humidity from going up?

 

[Christinecam]

It seems like an infection called blood rings.
Read this
http://www.raising-happy-chickens.com/candling-blood-ring.html

Yes that's what happened :'( it looks just like the more developed one. I had one other do the same. But still out of 28 shipped eggs a loss of 2 so far not bad! All the others were moving and looking super healthy.

 

[daxigait]

Obviously, that's not a union shop. I don't like unions for the most part, but one would certainly be a help in this case.
Have you checked any further into jumping ship for another outfit, or they all pretty much the same in that area?

I am waiting till after my vacation to tackle changing my job. I will likely need a few weeks to catch up financially and look around. I am considering waiting till October when I get three weeks of vacation. Then I could take a week off and try the new job.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Enlarge the surface?
So far the steps I did was remove the turner and place the eggs on their sides with the lowest part of the air cell facing up. I covered the mesh bottom with a sterile non slip porous cloth. Maybe that is preventing the humidity from going up?

Yes ,one of the main factors influencing evaporation is the S/V ratio, surface to volume ratio.
If you take 2 bottles with 1 liter of water in each one of them.
The first you leave it as is and the other you spill the water on the ground. Which one will evaporate faster? (When ofcors the the temp, and the humidity are the same.)

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Enlarge the surface?
So far the steps I did was remove the turner and place the eggs on their sides with the lowest part of the air cell facing up. I covered the mesh bottom with a sterile non slip porous cloth. Maybe that is preventing the humidity from going up?

It isn't so much the volume of water but the surface area that affects humidity. Sponges in the reservoir can help expand surface area.

 

[Akrnaf2]

It isn't so much the volume of water but the surface area that affects humidity. Sponges in the reservoir can help expand surface area.

Shalom my freind! Long time....

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Shalom my freind! Long time....

Sorry. Every day is busier than the one before.
I hope you and your family have been well.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Sorry. Every day is busier than the one before.
I hope you and your family have been well.

Yes, thank you
I understand that very well, life intended to be like that sometimes. ...

 

[Wickedchicken6]

No, I meant I was gone, as in seeya, adios, beddie-bye, time for some z's, going to la-la land. I hope you enjoyed your supper, though.

I believe that's what I was thinking. Who knows after a long day...the brain falls out my ear.

To concentrate it so it tastes more like a real popsicle instead of frozen fruit juice.

Oh.

Their prices are eye-twitching, eh? There's a reason I made my own; and that reason was I didn't fancy going over the hill to the poorhouse just for one of them fancy shmancy incubators.

Yep, yep. And I can get the parts without having to order more in.