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

[kajira]

@Sally Sunshine
@kwhites634

here are three locust (black) posts in position






thanks for your help

Hey, that's what one of our fences looks like :Lo

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: That's a code name, to mask the true identity. Only a very select group of high muckity-mucks know the real truth. Even I don't know it!

 

[BantyChooks]

That's a code name, to mask the true identity. Only a very select group of high muckity-mucks know the real truth. Even I don't know it!

 

[casportpony]

Ok, y'all, I'm back.

Hold my beer, & watch this!

Saw this at Walmart yesterday and thought of you and a few other people.

-Kathy

 

[Pensmaster]

2 inches of rain so far and coming down

 

[kajira]

2 inches of rain so far and coming down

I wish. My poor chickens out there need it to cool off.

80% humidity and 95. Poor guys.

They do okay with the heat when it's dry.... but this humidity makes them suffer.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: IMHO low humidity can dry the membrane that cover the chick if it will stay to long before unzipping.
That brings about another question: Why raise the humidity at all? Mama hen can't turn a dial to raise the humidity on day 18. The humidity's going to go up naturally, under a hen or in an incubator, once chicks start hatching, so what's the rational? I've done it with my few hatches, only because I'm told that's normal procedure, but I dun't know why.

 

[Pensmaster]

I wish. My poor chickens out there need it to cool off.

80% humidity and 95. Poor guys.

They do okay with the heat when it's dry.... but this humidity makes them suffer.

Don't blame them. I don't do well in humidity either. However all mine are wet at this point.

95.
It's all of 61* here

 

[kajira]

Don't blame them. I don't do well in humidity either. However all mine are wet at this point.

95.

It's all of 61* here

it gets MAYBE 60-70 at night.

This is why I can hatch year round and kick the babies out as soon as they start getting feathers.

 

[rrand5]

Hi all you highly skilled hatchers! I would love it if any of you would be willing to check out my eggtopsy pictures on my "all my chicks died" thread. I have looked over the eggtopsy thread and still can not figure out what happened, I would love some help.