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

[daxigait]

wow, I've missed a whole week (maybe plus some ) and you've only gotten 824 posts?!?

It has been slow. Welcome back, what have you been up to?

 

[dan26552]

 

[OneMountainAcres]

lol, the chickens!



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[microchick]

Yeah, chickens stole the show. Only thing missing was them having the chickens ''in the bread pan kickin up dough'' in the production.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Thanks! I don't sell eggs, so I have some leeway for error (meaning that I don't have customers to worry abut, just me).

Almost anything by Thermoworks is great - and that one is on sale, too!

Good morning all!
Great news, I finally cleaned and fired up my new incubator for the first time! It's been heating since about 2 pm PST yesterday. I have my extra hygro/thermo in there also, it's not working, I think I broke it! It's stuck at 10% humidity, no matter where I put it.
Below are pics of the current reading of the bator. I noticed it fluctuating temp between 98.5 and 99.5. I hadn't added the water until about it 11 pm last night, before I did, it was at 24%, it's now at 45% is this good?



I'd also like to ask, would any old rocks work for heat sinks, or are there a certain type that is best? Is there a better way to add water since the Wells are right in the center and the eggs would be in the way, or is it OK to get the eggs a little wet? 1 last question, sorry guys, the other reason I ask, is I have to take the lid completely off to add water, and it let's heat escape to about 10*....

Maybe someone else covered this, but humidity isn't a number, it's a tool to get your air cells to be there right size - even with an accurate hygrometer, different eggs will lose moisture at different rates. So if you trace the air cells at day zero and then track their size, with some attention, you can get by with a less accurate hygrometer (as long as you adjust for what your eggs need). It's more important to have an accurate thermometer, because there's not really anything you can observe to tell if the temperature is too high or low (other than failed hatches). Which is just as well - it's easier/cheaper to find a good accurate thermometer than a good accurate hygrometer (at least in my experience). The hygrometer in my Brinsea was way off, but I was tracking air cells and could tell they were too big and got good advice to crank the humidity in the remaining days to avoid further moisture loss, and the hatch went fine (not all hatched, but they were also shipped eggs that had been very roughly handled by the USPS).

wow, I've missed a whole week (maybe plus some

) and you've only gotten 824 posts?!?

IKR? SO slow...

I had a bit of a rotten day at work - just a bunch of irritating and frustrating issues coming from all sides.

I was quite cranky by the end of the day (you know, like when you realize you should stop interacting with people for their own good).

So I'm here to read about chickens!!! Or anything! WAKE UP, EVERYONE!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Thanks! I don't sell eggs, so I have some leeway for error (meaning that I don't have customers to worry abut, just me).

Almost anything by Thermoworks is great - and that one is on sale, too!


Maybe someone else covered this, but humidity isn't a number, it's a tool to get your air cells to be there right size - even with an accurate hygrometer, different eggs will lose moisture at different rates. So if you trace the air cells at day zero and then track their size, with some attention, you can get by with a less accurate hygrometer (as long as you adjust for what your eggs need). It's more important to have an accurate thermometer, because there's not really anything you can observe to tell if the temperature is too high or low (other than failed hatches). Which is just as well - it's easier/cheaper to find a good accurate thermometer than a good accurate hygrometer (at least in my experience). The hygrometer in my Brinsea was way off, but I was tracking air cells and could tell they were too big and got good advice to crank the humidity in the remaining days to avoid further moisture loss, and the hatch went fine (not all hatched, but they were also shipped eggs that had been very roughly handled by the USPS).

IKR? SO slow...

I had a bit of a rotten day at work - just a bunch of irritating and frustrating issues coming from all sides.

I was quite cranky by the end of the day (you know, like when you realize you should stop interacting with people for their own good).

So I'm here to read about chickens!!! Or anything! WAKE UP, EVERYONE!!!!

- Ant Farm

I'm here!!

 

[Chaos18]

I'm not.

 

[dan26552]

Looking good for tomorrow!

 

[mlm Mike]

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm not.

That's expected.