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

[Akrnaf2]

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The Ebola virus main host is the fruit bat.
So Ralphie I recommend that you stop eating them.....

 

[Wickedchicken6]

What? They're yummy.

 

[venymae]

$.20! I wish! They must be more, aren't they? I didn't have any cartons when I started. I had to buy some. On sale, here they are $.25. Now I have stacks of used cartons, each family has their own bag...lol.

online is where the cheap cartons are at! But you have to buy bulk.

Nothing will go wrong, and you will be so much happier knowing you are bringing baby chicks into a clean safe world where they are not attacked by germs in the womb,,,,,

which is probably a disservice to the chick.... this applies to most animal species

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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Likely the problem was confounding variables— shipping, illness in flock, not fertile— Those may have been the real culprit. Personal experience and poultry study results show benefits from cleaning eggs.

I would expect it's from user error....lol. It was mostly the first year when I had dirtier eggs from the only adult large fowl pair I had. And some from those first birds in 2016. Eggs from the same birds hatched along side.

I'm not saying washed eggs won't hatch. I'm saying they didn't hatch for me.
User error. I'd be almost positive I didn't have the water hot enough...I was still very new. (I'm still pretty new as it is)

 

[ronott1]

I would expect it's from user error....lol. It was mostly the first year when I had dirtier eggs from the only adult large fowl pair I had. And some from those first birds in 2016. Eggs from the same birds hatched along side.

I'm not saying washed eggs won't hatch. I'm saying they didn't hatch for me.
User error. I'd be almost positive I didn't have the water hot enough...I was still very new. (I'm still pretty new as it is)

Great answer!

I bet you are getting much better at hatching though

 

[Wickedchicken6]

The Ebola virus main host is the fruit bat.
So Ralphie I recommend that you stop eating them.....

 

[duluthralphie]

online is where the cheap cartons are at! But you have to buy bulk.

which is probably a disservice to the chick.... this applies to most animal species

It is a service to the chick...How would you like to lay in a filth covered manure tinged bed for 3 weeks?

 

[duluthralphie]

The Ebola virus main host is the fruit bat.
So Ralphie I recommend that you stop eating them.....

Fillet of Fruit Bat is a delicacy here, Very few restaurants have it on the menu. When I see I can't help myself I have to order a fillet.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

It is a service to the chick...How would you like to lay in a filth covered manure tinged bed for 3 weeks?

I would be hoping and praying that I would be covered with natural bloom

 

[duluthralphie]

I would be hoping and praying that I would be covered with natural bloom

If it is under a hen I would agree. However, there is nothing natural in an incubator...There the idea is to keep the germs down to a minimum...

Both systems are designed to keep the most germs from the chick. Bloom works somewhat under the hen. Does not work in the incubator. The incubator can actually make the germs on the outside of the egg grow and multiply like a huge petri dish.

BTW While hens make hatching easier. I find the incubator normally does a high hatch rate.