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

[lindalouly]

Yes.... Yes I have and three out of five are scared of chickens and tortoiseszzzz hates cats and can do with or without dogs. Lol

Four not five... Miss counting again. Lol

 

[lindalouly]

Well off to make myself dinner. Hope everyone has a great night. I'll be reading along so no bad talking about me. Hahahaha

 

[Chaos18]

Yes.... Yes I have and three out of five are scared of chickens and tortoiseszzzz hates cats and can do with or without dogs. Lol

That's funny, terrible but funny.

 

[Chaos18]

Well off to make myself dinner. Hope everyone has a great night. I'll be reading along so no bad talking about me. Hahahaha

and love

 

[daxigait]

That's pretty cool!

I thought it was neat. It is much bigger than it looks in the first two photos.

 

[Beer can]

Kids and dishes, dang, five kids lots of dishes, and yes I also do them. Why do they use so many cups? I use the same one from coffee, tea, to water to beer at night, my favorite clear glass 16oz beer mug.
DW was complaining she was missing plates and bowls, of course I usually get the blame for leaving them outside tossing leftovers to the chickens or dogs. Swear it wasn't me this time. Did some digging around and found piles of dishes under DD#2's bed. Took a pic of the pile all rounded up and threatened to post it on Facebook.
:-D

 

[daxigait]

Kids and dishes, dang, five kids lots of dishes, and yes I also do them. Why do they use so many cups? I use the same one from coffee, tea, to water to beer at night, my favorite clear glass 16oz beer mug.
DW was complaining she was missing plates and bowls, of course I usually get the blame for leaving them outside tossing leftovers to the chickens or dogs. Swear it wasn't me this time. Did some digging around and found piles of dishes under DD#2's bed. Took a pic of the pile all rounded up and threatened to post it on Facebook.
:-D

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

 

toay is lockdown yay.but some of the air cells are smaller than the others and I'm worried.

Question for everyone... Is there really a need to up the humidity before they pip externally?


-Kathy

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.

The success hatching ratio of a broody is around 35-40%. If you want this percentage dont do nothing. If you want a higer hatching percentage as we usualy have , you have to montior and play with the temp and humidity.

 

[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. The success hatching ratio of a broody is around 35-40%. If you want this percentage dont do nothing. If you want a higer hatching percentage as we usualy have , you have to montior and play with the temp and humidity.
Now I understand. I wish I could reach 40%, ain't happened yet

 

[BantyChooks]

The success hatching ratio of a broody is around 35-40%. If you want this percentage dont do nothing. If you want a higer hatching percentage as we usualy have , you have to montior and play with the temp and humidity.

Someone forgot to tell my broodies this