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

[daxigait]

A few hours early. Blessings and prayers for all of you!

 

[Elizabeth777]

Please help! I posted a separate thread but I thought I would share here as well. I believe I have accidentally killed most of our chicks . This is our first time incubating and when I purchased the incubator I made sure to ask the lady at tractor supply lots of questions on how to incubate. She said that she had done it before and that I needed to watch the temperature and make sure that there was always water in the treys. So I have been very diligent to keep the trays full of water. I am on day 18 and just now, after reading about lockdown, realized that my humidity has been way to high (like 80%) for the whole time. I'm so devastated. I candled the eggs and some are still alive and moving but the air sacks are small. Is there anyway to help these little guys? My children are going to be so disappointed . And whatshould my humidity be at now considering it has been high the whole time? I can't evensleep thinking about those poor little babies

 

[BullChick]

I’m sorry you had bad advice.
Get the water out of the incubator. Use a syringe turkey baster. Then just hope for the best.

 

[mlm Mike]

Morning and Happy Easter!

 

[daxigait]

Please help! I posted a separate thread but I thought I would share here as well. I believe I have accidentally killed most of our chicks . This is our first time incubating and when I purchased the incubator I made sure to ask the lady at tractor supply lots of questions on how to incubate. She said that she had done it before and that I needed to watch the temperature and make sure that there was always water in the treys. So I have been very diligent to keep the trays full of water. I am on day 18 and just now, after reading about lockdown, realized that my humidity has been way to high (like 80%) for the whole time. I'm so devastated. I candled the eggs and some are still alive and moving but the air sacks are small. Is there anyway to help these little guys? My children are going to be so disappointed . And whatshould my humidity be at now considering it has been high the whole time? I can't evensleep thinking about those poor little babies

I'm glad bullchick was able to reply. I am so sorry and hope that at least a couple can make it out. Before you incubate again on the first page of this thread is a ton of information Sally and others have put there that's really helpful.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Please help! I posted a separate thread but I thought I would share here as well. I believe I have accidentally killed most of our chicks . This is our first time incubating and when I purchased the incubator I made sure to ask the lady at tractor supply lots of questions on how to incubate. She said that she had done it before and that I needed to watch the temperature and make sure that there was always water in the treys. So I have been very diligent to keep the trays full of water. I am on day 18 and just now, after reading about lockdown, realized that my humidity has been way to high (like 80%) for the whole time. I'm so devastated. I candled the eggs and some are still alive and moving but the air sacks are small. Is there anyway to help these little guys? My children are going to be so disappointed . And whatshould my humidity be at now considering it has been high the whole time? I can't evensleep thinking about those poor little babies

It is to late to do anything except waiting.

 

[Elizabeth777]

I’m sorry you had bad advice.
Get the water out of the incubator. Use a syringe turkey baster. Then just hope for the best.

Thank you for replying I took all of the water out earlier this morning and it is still at %81 humidity Any ideas why it is still so high? Does it take awhile to come down?

 

[daxigait]

Thank you for replying I took all of the water out earlier this morning and it is still at %81 humidity Any ideas why it is still so high? Does it take awhile to come down?

What is your temperature/humidity where you're at? If you're not in lockdown yet you could try putting something in there, like I don't know rice, to absorb some of the moisture I suppose. I don't know I'm not a big incubator myself.

 

[BullChick]

Thank you for replying I took all of the water out earlier this morning and it is still at %81 humidity Any ideas why it is still so high? Does it take awhile to come down?

Yes, it takes some time.
The eggs are also porous. Meaning they are probably giving off some of that extra moisture inside.
Put dry rice in a stocking or even a plastic egg. It will absorb extra moisture.

 

[kajira]

I don't even bother to put water in my incubators anymore, since I live in texas and we run 30-80% humidity on any given day.

Except, for my ducks/geese eggs, I try to keep the humidity more consistent. ironically enough, my ducks survive weird temps and humidity better than my full sized chickens and my bantam eggs, survive extreme temp spikes better than my regular full sized eggs.

I just murdered about 3-4 dozen eggs the last month because my new incubator is jumping between 92-106 and I can't get it to stabilize, and I don't have another incubator so I'm just checking it multiple times a day trying to get it to stay below 102. I'm kind of upset and when I google it, there's no real reason why it's doing this, other than the sensor isn't reading correctly. But I haven't figured out how to build/get a new sensor yet, and since it's easter weekend, I have to wait a few days to get my husband to help me and get the parts. He could care less about chickens. On his day off yesterday he was gone all day working his dogs instead of helping the chickens! LOL

Thanks with my goats always have Penicillin on hand between them in the horses I just needed to get information on the dosage. I appreciate it.

I'm glad I could help.