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

[BullChick]

Yes. But it was the first chicken picture I could find to scare pensmaster.

 

[Akrnaf2]

@lazy gardener
Went looking for a gardening thread to get ideas/plans for a greenhouse; struck out.
Help?

CANNABIS.

 

[ronott1]

Yeah...I thought it had affected BYC like it did everything else, 'til I checked my profile.

Make sure you update that email address on BYC in the settings. If you have an account problem, the email address will be used to fix it. If the email is wrong, your account will be hard to recover.

 

[ronott1]

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Yep! That is a shape shifter! Hence the human eye....

 

[BullChick]

@kwhites634 Remember these?

 

[kwhites634]

@kwhites634 Remember these?
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Yes'm, I sure do! Hilarious after it was all over.

 

[BantyChooks]

Yep! That is a shape shifter! Hence the human eye....

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That's me.

 

[ronott1]

That's me.

Nice job!

 

[aliciaplus3]

On that topic, here's something I'd like to interject.
Many questions people ask are about humidity. And as I think either you or Sally has said, 'humidity isn't an absolute number' or something to that effect. There are lots of reasons for that, ambient humidity, species, strain, pigment, size, etc..
What I keep forgetting to ask is where one's location is. Or more importantly, what is the elevation where they are incubating? Also, what is the elevation where the breeder flock is located?
The higher the elevation, the slower the embryo growth and therefor, the longer the duration of incubation. The air is thinner and molecules move around faster causing more movement of carbon dioxide and moisture across the shell surface.
Hatchability continues to decrease due to lower oxygen and dehydration of the embryo. Hatching above 1500 meters or about 5000 feet, this becomes a real issue.
So why is the elevation of the breeder flock important?
Many species of birds lay and incubate at much higher elevations. So there is evidence that birds can control the porosity of their eggs based on their elevation.
If the breeder flock is at a lower elevation than the incubation, humidity should be set higher to control weight loss but ventilation will need to be decreased.
If the breeder flock is at the same elevation the hens may have adapted eggshell porosity so ventilation can be increased to maintain correct weight loss.
If the breeder flock is at higher elevation, humidity may need to be lowered and ventilation increased.

Thank you for bringing this up! When I first started hatching this would have been very useful as I am at 6000 feet.

 

[ronott1]

Thank you for bringing this up! When I first started hatching this would have been very useful as I am at 6000 feet.

At least you are not at 7000 ft.! That gets very dicey for incubating. In the Andes they use a pressure incubator to hatch eggs