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

[BullChick]

Did you know Purina actually makes hatching bags? I’d forgotten that people had talked about lingerie bags for hatching, and I was looking up how logical it is. Apparently it’s a good idea. I was actually two minutes from sewing up two plastic canvas hatcher cages.
Three more days!

 

[BullChick]

Easter isn’t until tomorrow... unless you consider where He was when it happened.

 

[Razadia]

Happy Easter folks!

 

[BullChick]

This dog could open plastic eggs. He was great at finding them.

This idiot finally got it, but it took forever!

 

[mlm Mike]

Sorry I didn't answer this when it popped up.
As long as the plants are not hybrids, all you have to do is let the peppers, tomatoes, peas, beans, seed pods, lettuces, brassicas that have gone to seed or whatever mature completely so the seed will be viable. Scrape the seeds out, spread them thinly on a surface and let them dry completely. Otherwise they'll mold.
Seeds from hybrid plants won't reproduce the same plants as the parent. So if you plan to be a seed saver, use heirloom varieties.

it also matters how far apart they are. I believe peppers have to be grown at least 1/4 mile apart to not cross pollinate with other peppers. Keeping pure strains of heirlooms is difficult.

 

[Uff Da]

it also matters how far apart they are. I believe peppers have to be grown at least 1/4 mile apart to not cross pollinate with other peppers. Keeping pure strains of heirlooms is difficult.

Huh! I didn't know this. I'm going to have to review my seed saving knowledge I guess. I was going to try and do some this year. I've always bought open-pollinated varieties so I can save seed, but have never gotten around to it.

 

[Uff Da]

Our furnace went out overnight (again) and since we are in the middle of a cold snap, the house was freezing when we woke up. Literally. It was 32 degrees in my bedroom (thank God for down comforters!) when we got up, and in the 40s in the living rooms.

Unfortunately, I have 38 eggs incubating, 20 of them shipped that I paid dear money for. The incubators were barely holding at 90 degrees. For it to have gotten that cold in the house, I am guessing the heat was out for most of the night, and that the incubators were low for several hours.

Does anyone know how long it takes after an embryo dies before you can see it by candling?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

it also matters how far apart they are. I believe peppers have to be grown at least 1/4 mile apart to not cross pollinate with other peppers. Keeping pure strains of heirlooms is difficult.

I remember when I was a kid, we had a big garden at the old homestead in the suburbs and another farm in Southern Missouri. We decided to put a garden in along a creek in a corner of a hay field. We planted watermelons, cantaloupes and cucumbers. They all cross pollinated. We ended up with water-cumbers and cuc-aloupes. They tasted ok, just very strange.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Our furnace went out overnight (again) and since we are in the middle of a cold snap, the house was freezing when we woke up. Literally. It was 32 degrees in my bedroom (thank God for down comforters!) when we got up, and in the 40s in the living rooms.

Unfortunately, I have 38 eggs incubating, 20 of them shipped that I paid dear money for. The incubators were barely holding at 90 degrees. For it to have gotten that cold in the house, I am guessing the heat was out for most of the night, and that the incubators were low for several hours.

Does anyone know how long it takes after an embryo dies before you can see it by candling?

Hang in there. What day were they on? Depending on the stage, they could be ok.
You need to read through this.
https://poultrykeeper.com/incubating-and-hatching-eggs/weight-loss-method-forl-incubation/
Is the power back on now?

We're supposed to have 50 MPH winds today and it is cold now. I hope we don't lose power. I'm not sure how many eggs I have cooking but about 40 and I was going to put another 30 or so in today.
I do have a backup generator which I haven't needed in years but I try to run it about once a month to keep it ready.
The weather is insane. We hit 87 and 91 F last week one was a degree off the record and 91 was a new record. Now we're supposed to get a frost nearly every night this week. All the fruit trees are blooming. Last killing frost for our area is supposed to be April 10.

 

[BullChick]

Tomorrow is Wednesday! I can’t wait for the babies to hatch!!