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

[kajira]

Well that's not good! I guess you candled them long ago & know they're fertile. Any way one of your brood could have bumped the Temp and/or RH out of whack?

The sensor for the heater is stapled to a plastic piece of flat paper like material. When my kid was rotating the eggs, there was a couple day period where it wasn't flat on the ground under the eggs - so it's possible the heater cooked the eggs, or, the opposite, our power went out for a few hours and the eggs got *really* cold for a few hours - then heated back up. So I don't know :/ I took a couple of viable eggs out and stuck them in my smaller incubator, but I had geese eggs in there, so only a couple could fit with them.

 

[kwhites634]

The sensor for the heater is stapled to a plastic piece of flat paper like material. When my kid was rotating the eggs, there was a couple day period where it wasn't flat on the ground under the eggs - so it's possible the heater cooked the eggs, or, the opposite, our power went out for a few hours and the eggs got *really* cold for a few hours - then heated back up. So I don't know :/ I took a couple of viable eggs out and stuck them in my smaller incubator, but I had geese eggs in there, so only a couple could fit with them.

Whatever the cause, there's nothing you can do about it at this point. Before you load it up again, you might want to run it through a test cycle of a few days to see just what the temp's doing. I have a thermometer (Accurite, I believe, w/o running out to check) that shows the highest temp over the previous 24 hours

 

[kwhites634]

The sensor for the heater is stapled to a plastic piece of flat paper like material. When my kid was rotating the eggs, there was a couple day period where it wasn't flat on the ground under the eggs - so it's possible the heater cooked the eggs, or, the opposite, our power went out for a few hours and the eggs got *really* cold for a few hours - then heated back up. So I don't know :/ I took a couple of viable eggs out and stuck them in my smaller incubator, but I had geese eggs in there, so only a couple could fit with them.

Whatever the cause, there's nothing you can do about it at this point. Before you load it up again, you might want to run it through a test cycle of a few days to see just what the temp's doing. I have a thermometer (Accurite, I believe, w/o running out to check) that shows the highest temp over the previous 24 hours

 

[kajira]

Whatever the cause, there's nothing you can do about it at this point. Before you load it up again, you might want to run it through a test cycle of a few days to see just what the temp's doing. I have a thermometer (Accurite, I believe, w/o running out to check) that shows the highest temp over the previous 24 hours

got a link to it?

 

[BullChick]

Tonight’s dinner is cheese balls... and apparently fingers. I keep biting myself.

 

[kwhites634]

got a link to it?

No; couldn't send it if I did. Hold on a sec.

I was right AND wrong. It's Acurite, but it shows 24 hr. highs AND lows for temp AND RH.

Google Acurite thermometer/hygrometer; that should get you to their web site, I'd think

 

[Pensmaster]

Tonight’s dinner is cheese balls... and apparently fingers. I keep biting myself.

Gloves gloves gloves.
Speaking of gloves was thinking of you last Saturday. I worked all day diligently wearing my gloves. Was in the process of transferring the Silveruud Blues out of brooder into new coop. Did not have gloves near by was tired and decided to skip them. Ripped the finger at the cuticle on the hardware cloth. Yea won’t be too tired next time.

 

[kwhites634]

Gloves gloves gloves.
Speaking of gloves was thinking of you last Saturday. I worked all day diligently wearing my gloves. Was in the process of transferring the Silveruud Blues out of brooder into new coop. Did not have gloves near by was tired and decided to skip them. Ripped the finger at the cuticle on the hardware cloth. Yea won’t be too tired next time.

I was going to ask why cutting your finger on HWC made you think of Abi, but I decided not to.

 

[BullChick]

Gloves gloves gloves.
Speaking of gloves was thinking of you last Saturday. I worked all day diligently wearing my gloves. Was in the process of transferring the Silveruud Blues out of brooder into new coop. Did not have gloves near by was tired and decided to skip them. Ripped the finger at the cuticle on the hardware cloth. Yea won’t be too tired next time.

You were thinking of me?!

 

[Pensmaster]

You were thinking of me?!
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Yep.