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

[BullChick]

Good morning, @Lady Who ! How are you today? I see it is almost your two - year anniversary!

 

[Pensmaster]

Good morning

It's raining and real windy.

Slipped while collecting eggs yesterday and smashed a few. Did I mention it's been raining non stop since yesterday morning? Slip and slide


Good morning Abi

 

[Pensmaster]

Good morning.

Good morning Dax. Sorry about the goat's kid. The other two look cute

 

[daxigait]

Good morning Dax. Sorry about the goat's kid. The other two look cute

Thanks. I am going to sell her. She is the sweetest doe,but the first owner let her get bred at six months and then left twins on her. I am going a different direction with my breedings so I hope to find her a good home. She is very sweet and will make a great family goat with some closer management. I almost expected this since she got goat Pollio in December.

 

[BullChick]

Good morning

It's raining and real windy.

Slipped while collecting eggs yesterday and smashed a few. Did I mention it's been raining non stop since yesterday morning? Slip and slide


Good morning Abi

Sorry you fell! Are you okay? It's raining here too. What a mess!
Thank you for the coffee!

 

[BantyChooks]

I forgot my manners... Mornin Abi, I did NOT sleep like a log. <<shudder>>

 

[BullChick]

I forgot my manners... Mornin Abi, I did NOT sleep like a log. <<shudder>>

 

[duluthralphie]

My 2 shipped eggs are on day 13 and one of the air cells looks a bit large. It's a saddled air cell. I've kept the humidity between 35-40%. Is there any way I can keep it from growing too much?

Not sure if this was answered.

Side saddle eggs are hard to get to hatch. Most of the time I have to hatch the on their side. and help them hatch. Their beaks are not anywhere near where they need to be. As you no doubt know, helping a chick hatch is not a good sign of success. For every success there are 10 dead chicks.

I would up the humidity to 45-50% is you want to stop the increasing size of the air sac. Good luck,

The odds are against you, IMHO.

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie, I am trying the water in ziploc bag as suggested earlier, waiting for that to warm up right now. I went out and bought another meat thermo and a Taylor's simple thermo (which proved to be a full 3 degrees higher than my calibrated one!). The stick one is in the ziploc bag "egg" and the other one at egg level. I feel I should clarify something: my incubator is heated by heater elements (look like springs, from a metal heater), the wafer only signals one to come on and it gets real hot, real fast. And the fan is right behind it. I don't think it stays at 102 for very long, just right after it kicks on, maybe a minute or two after. If the water bag (egg) does not get that high, you think it's safe? This is just a big experiment, wanted to see if I could make an incubator without lightbulbs.
Thanks!

Anything you use as a heat sink might help. Try a rock or brick even.

I have a thermostat from a company called "Spyder" it is a mini computer almost. It will control the amount of "juice" it sends to the heating element. After a few days in use it will almost stop cycling and just send the amount of juice to element needed to maintain the selected temp.

That said you may not want to pay for one of them, I think I paid $129 for that thermostat.

I did get a cheap digital thermostat I put on one of my GQF's removing the electronic one it had. The bad part about them is they can only be set to "whole numbers" I set mine at 99 degrees and it works great, it ends up maintaining 100.3 which while high is fine, it just means an earlier hatch.

Even flirting with 102 makes me nervous, but unless the embryo or core of the egg gets too warm it should live. It is like disinfecting eggs. I use 130 degree water for that, but they are only held under the water for a second as when I dunk them in chlorine. The heat cannot hurt the fertility until the egg temp reaches 117, which does not occur in a second or two. Just like the chlorine on the outside of the egg cannot kill the insides unless it is there long enough to go inside..


Whew long answer.

Now I am skipping a few pages...

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Morning all day 8 already.