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

[kajira]

@Sally Sunshine Ruby had twins!!!

awwwwwwwwwwwwwww

 

[DwayneNLiz]

There are so many of you who talked me through my duck incubation problem with 21 day eggs having the air cell of 7 days. I bought a humidity detector for the room they are in, it is 62%! I placed it in my incubator this morning and it's reading dead on what my incubator says as far as temp and humidity. The air cells have grown a small amount since I put the rice in. We are hanging out st 29-30% with the rice and no added moisture inside the incubator. We are 23 days now. They are weighing 58 grams. Lockdown is on Sunday. Hoping for the best! Thanks for all of your help and guidance in my first run of incubating. We shall see how it turns out soon!

keep us posted!!

@Sally SunshineRuby had twins!!!
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so cute!!

 

[daxigait]

Has anyone heard/seen Sally?

Mike said she is OK, just getting ready for two litters and some other things.

 

[chickmama22]

I will! We are going out of town tomorrow morning and coming back Sunday evening. Will place them in lockdown then. We have staggered batches in the incubator, 5 due to hatch this week and 6 I put in the incubator on 10/27. . I'm planning on moving the ones that will hatch this week to another incubator, it's smaller with no humidity control other than the accur-rite monitor I bought. . Hoping I can pull it off! Might need some moral support in the meantime!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Yup! The vine is a volunteer from some luffas harvested TWO YEARS AGO

and left out in the rain (and therefore abandoned for scrubbers). This thing is growing out of a crack between two pavers, and has climbed the adjacent trees - I have luffa hanging 30 feet high! Talk about drought resistant, tough plants. (Resistant to vine borers, too). If you pick them early, they're a bit like zucchini (I have a number of Indian recipes for them).

Quote: The only time this has ever happened for me was one night at 3am when Tank started crowing. The next morning I found that one of his hens who had gone on walkabout the previous day and didn't go to roost had been killed overnight by a fox - I think his crow was a warning/alert. I keep my yard dark at night - I suspect lights could cause problems for some. Agree with others' experience, re: removal/separation from another (dominant) cockerel can suddenly lead to crowing (in my case, LOTS AND LOTS of crowing, as if he was catching up for lost time - though thankfully only during the day).

If your dogs were going nuts as well, I would default to the assumption of something real (dangerous or not) moving around or disturbing them at night before I culled the cockerel. But maybe that's just me.

OMG, I have finally arrived!!!! I HAVE A COFFEE CUP FROM MC!!!!!

(I love this mug - did you see it for sale somewhere? I NEED it!!!)

Quote:

Quote: I knew about Viceroys as mimics, so I looked that up, and they're not Viceroys (no horizontal black line across the hind wing). But I didn't realize the Queens were mimics until this - now I know.

Monarch vs. Viceroy:
https://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/Viceroy1.html

Monarch vs. Queen:
https://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/Queen.html

@Sally Sunshine Ruby had twins!!!

Woohoo!!!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

I will! We are going out of town tomorrow morning and coming back Sunday evening. Will place them in lockdown then. We have staggered batches in the incubator, 5 due to hatch this week and 6 I put in the incubator on 10/27. . I'm planning on moving the ones that will hatch this week to another incubator, it's smaller with no humidity control other than the accur-rite monitor I bought. . Hoping I can pull it off! Might need some moral support in the meantime!

We're always here If ya need moral support.... We've all been there!!

 

[Beer can]

 

[daxigait]

bye y'all i probably won't be able to come back here until late sunday-ish, (babysitting my cousins until tomorrow eve.) see ya!

Take care and have fun.

 

[daxigait]

Yup! The vine is a volunteer from some luffas harvested TWO YEARS AGO  and left out in the rain (and therefore abandoned for scrubbers). This thing is growing out of a crack between two pavers, and has climbed the adjacent trees - I have luffa hanging 30 feet high! Talk about drought resistant, tough plants. (Resistant to vine borers, too). If you pick them early, they're a bit like zucchini (I have a number of Indian recipes for them). 

The only time this has ever happened for me was one night at 3am when Tank started crowing. The next morning I found that one of his hens who had gone on walkabout the previous day and didn't go to roost had been killed overnight by a fox - I think his crow was a warning/alert. I keep my yard dark at night - I suspect lights could cause problems for some. Agree with others' experience, re: removal/separation from another (dominant) cockerel can suddenly lead to crowing (in my case, LOTS AND LOTS of crowing, as if he was catching up for lost time - though thankfully only during the day). 

If your dogs were going nuts as well, I would default to the assumption of something real (dangerous or not) moving around or disturbing them at night before I culled the cockerel. But maybe that's just me.

OMG, I have finally arrived!!!! [COLOR=008000]I HAVE A COFFEE CUP FROM MC!!!!! [/COLOR]

(I love this mug - did you see it for sale somewhere? I NEED it!!!)




I knew about Viceroys as mimics, so I looked that up, and they're not Viceroys (no horizontal black line across the hind wing). But I didn't realize the Queens were mimics until this - now I know. 

Monarch vs. Viceroy:
https://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/Viceroy1.html

Monarch vs. Queen:
https://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/Queen.html
Woohoo!!!!!! e

- Ant Farm 

Abi was excited to find a naked neck for you.

 

[daxigait]

What is that? It is too small on my phone.