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

[Phage]

Let me introduce the Palawan peacock pheasant, Polyplectron napoleonis ( @casportpony see this)

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Hey Benny - could you pop a box of eggs in the mail for me?

 

[ronott1]

Come to think about it there was a significant difference in temp between the top and bottom of my brinsea cabinet bator.
The bottom of the bator especially, was several
Degrees cooler than the top. Too cold to hatch. Maybe just too far away from the fans at the top. I just rotated the trays of eggs between shelves once a week and all did fine.

That is a great answer!

 

[BantyChooks]

I assume that this will the pic. Now
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Hey, get my picture off BYC!

The only thing missing from this picture is Little Red Riding Hood.

She froze to death a few weeks ago.

 

[h2oratt]

Come to think about it there was a significant difference in temp between the top and bottom of my brinsea cabinet bator.
The bottom of the bator especially, was several
Degrees cooler than the top. Too cold to hatch. Maybe just too far away from the fans at the top. I just rotated the trays of eggs between shelves once a week and all did fine.

I could do once a week. Hope I don’t drop them.

 

[h2oratt]

Yes, you would think so. Ron has a good point about thermometers can be a degree or two off. Since you mentioned mercury, are you using medical thermometers? I'm really baffled on such a temp discrepancy.

Last year when I calibrated the thermometers I used a medical mercury. But I have since broken it. Trying to get another.

 

[h2oratt]

Are you opening the door to do the readings or are the spot checks in the Bator all the time?
If you are opening the door the The temp could drop between the 2 measurements.

There is a lot of space between the 2 shelves. Can they be put closer together? Maybe it is hard to fully ventilate air around the bottom shelf due to the turner.

No I read them through the glass door. I usually just do one shelf of eggs. 16. Total. But my friend gave me silkie eggs to do with mine. The silkie eggs are too small for the turner.

 

[h2oratt]

That is a wonderful score.
You likely have long tailed weasels if you're anywhere near water.
https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=2592
I had never SEEN any members of the Mustelid family before mink killed $2,000 worth of birds in 6 buildings with locked doors in the course of a week.

That is what sandhill keeps telling me. Minks wiped out some of their breeds.

 

[ronott1]

No I read them through the glass door. I usually just do one shelf of eggs. 16. Total. But my friend gave me silkie eggs to do with mine. The silkie eggs are too small for the turner.

There have been several BYC hatchers that did not follow my advice on getting a brinsea spot check. I kept badgering them about it and when they finally get one, they have their best hatches ever and find that their incubators were very off.

They do not cost that much and are very good! I have two of them.
Get one from Brinsea and you can even pay extra for one that is certified for accuracy

 

[Beer can]

Question,
I plan on setting eggs from two different groups of the same breed and I'd like to keep track of them. Already figured I'd mark the eggs, and then the chicks as they hatch.
Now I'm trying to think of ways to mark them without opening the bator.
Long Q-tip trough the hole in the top and see if I can dab some paint or bluecoat or something on them? Just take them out as they hatch?
How do you all accomplish this if you do?

 

[ronott1]

Question,
I plan on setting eggs from two different groups of the same breed and I'd like to keep track of them. Already figured I'd mark the eggs, and then the chicks as they hatch.
Now I'm trying to think of ways to mark them without opening the bator.
Long Q-tip trough the hole in the top and see if I can dab some paint or bluecoat or something on them? Just take them out as they hatch?
How do you all accomplish this if you do?

I used tomato holders for this and then put a colored mini zip tie on them when I took them out of each basket