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

[Chaos18]

Ah, where's your proof?

The fact that you don't know what you are talking about.

 

[BantyChooks]

The fact that you don't know what you are talking about.

Do too. I am one of the many voices in your head- I know you.

 

[BantyChooks]

THINGS TO DO WHILST WAITING FOR EGGS TO PIP
A) Reorganise the pantry
B) Make 14 loaves of bread
C) Set a new record for the number of times you can say "I'm going insane" without making a mistake
D) Play "Go fish" with the dog
E) Become fluent in Swahili
F) Run away from Kristin
G) Go crawdad huntin'
H) Watch videos on how to butcher a guinea
J) Miss a letter in your list and see how many notice
K) Plan a coop build
L) Search "hatching eggs" on eBay before realising it was a baaad idea
M) Worry about power outages
N) See how many chocolate bars you can down in a minute
O) See just how many imaginary chicks you hear peeping in lockdown
P) Set up a new pen for chicks on the way
Q) Make lists like this one
R) Pick up your Xanax perscription
S) Laugh at autocorrect turning "Xanax" into "Canada"
T) Hug a duck
U) Research hatching upright vs on side
V) Watch clouds blow by
W) Upgrade the other bators
X) Occasionally have a moment of panic in which you think you forgot to turn the eggs
Y) Dust the coop roof off
Z) Order more eggs

 

[dan26552]

THINGS TO DO WHILST WAITING FOR EGGS TO PIP
A) Reorganise the pantry
B) Make 14 loaves of bread
C) Set a new record for the number of times you can say "I'm going insane" without making a mistake
D) Play "Go fish" with the dog
E) Become fluent in Swahili
F) Run away from Kristin
G) Go crawdad huntin'
H) Watch videos on how to butcher a guinea
J) Miss a letter in your list and see how many notice
K) Plan a coop build
L) Search "hatching eggs" on eBay before realising it was a baaad idea
M) Worry about power outages
N) See how many chocolate bars you can down in a minute
O) See just how many imaginary chicks you hear peeping in lockdown
P) Set up a new pen for chicks on the way
Q) Make lists like this one
R) Pick up your Xanax perscription
S) Laugh at autocorrect turning "Xanax" into "Canada"
T) Hug a duck
U) Research hatching upright vs on side
V) Watch clouds blow by
W) Upgrade the other bators
X) Occasionally have a moment of panic in which you think you forgot to turn the eggs
Y) Dust the coop roof off
Z) Order more eggs

I know a awesome spot for crawdads!

 

[Phage]

I thought I'd share something I posted on the NYD HAL thread today.

"I don't candle except about day 14 to make sure something is growing. Mostly because I can see little or nothing inside the eggs. I certainly don't look at air cell size. I don't even own a hygrometer. I do have a gram scale so I weigh eggs instead,  I put a little water in when I set and again halfway through. when I weigh again. I weighed last night and they are supposed to have lost 10% of their weight. They were all spot on. So I didn't have to fret about humidity % or draw circles on eggs.
If the weights are low, I add water. If they're high, I let it dry out.
This is the way I've been doing it for a long time."

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I do pretty much the same thing only I don't ever weigh them.
Just candle at day 10-14.

 

[AlilSassy]

XD Good one Banty

I'm going through this now...7 Hedemora, with only one of them pip'd the others appear a day or so behind on incubation somehow, but look healthy based off veins and movement... so weird, all together yet developed at very different rate... oh! But I just heard it chirp! I swear I did

I Will Not Go Look....

 

[Akrnaf2]

I thought I'd share something I posted on the NYD HAL thread today.

"I don't candle except about day 14 to make sure something is growing. Mostly because I can see little or nothing inside the eggs. I certainly don't look at air cell size. I don't even own a hygrometer. I do have a gram scale so I weigh eggs instead,  I put a little water in when I set and again halfway through. when I weigh again. I weighed last night and they are supposed to have lost 10% of their weight. They were all spot on. So I didn't have to fret about humidity % or draw circles on eggs.
If the weights are low, I add water. If they're high, I let it dry out.
This is the way I've been doing it for a long time."

In what humidity % you normally incubat?

 

[Akrnaf2]

Xanax!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Not alphabetized- I organised it by use. Canned goods, beans, salad dressings on one shelf, snack foods on the next, flours and baking supplies on the next, and rice, onions, and potatoes on the last one.

Ours is like that. Top and bottom shelves are lesser used items.
Top is flour, sugar (cane, confectioners, brown), various vinegars (wine, malt, rice, sherry, dark balsamic, raspberry balsamic, apple cider, etc. and some brandy.
Bottom is potatoes, onions, shallots, garlic, bags of various seaweed/kelp.
Floor is bottles of ammonia, white vinegarbig packages of sugar for bee feeding and big cheap vegetable oil for hive beetle traps.
Next shelf from top is mostly grains, Asian noodles (rice, buckwheat, silver line), dried beans, (black, red, pinto), taco shells, oils and sweeteners. Probably about 6 kinds of rice, quinoa, millet, popcorn. Oils include shallot, grapeseed, coconut, olive, almond, avocado. Sweeteners are honey, agave, molasses, pure maple syrup along with vanilla and tamari.
Next shelf is various pasta noodles, containers of tree nuts. seeds and dried fruits like cranberry and goji, the few canned goods we keep like coconut water/milk, home canned tomato sauce, tomatoes, beans, condensed milk. Lots of yummy gourmet crackers. I think the corn starch and baking powder/soda are on that shelf.
Next shelf is the most used and nothing but herbs/spices. There's a 3 tier rack in the back and on one side plus a pull out/drop down rack spices. All the salt is on that shelf too, kosher and various sea salts. I even installed an extra light on that shelf to help find the right spices.

CHRISSY WALKED!!!!

I had her out of her carrier and was trying to get her to eat... She stood up (on the RIGHT side of the web) and limped the 12 inches to her carrier.

I think it is time for her to have a swim. Do you have a place you can give her enough water to exercise her legs? If so, I'd make it an Epsom salt bath.

In what humidity % you normally incubat?

Do you mean, what is our ambient humidity?
Outdoors it ranges from 30-99%. Indoors, it is probably 40-50 most of the time. I don't have a hygrometer in the incubator so I really don't know that humidity.
I used to have a few that I threw away because they wouldn't stay calibrated.
I may buy a good one or two next year when I build a new incubator with humidity sensors.

 

[Chaos18]

Do too. I am one of the many voices in your head- I know you.

That's laughable.