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

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JenniferDuBay said:
Okay, so I have just candled my first eggs, so exciting. I set 84 eggs, and after tossing 9 for blood rings, I now have 54 developing. The remaining are clear and I've put them in a lower shelf just to be sure until I candle next. I find all of this rather amazing considering what I'm hatching them in. My home made incubator, nicknamed the junkobator was literally pulled from my neighbor's to the trash pile, disinfected thoroughly and I stuck two strands of christmas lights in it. I added a fan, but I'm not too happy with it's placement, and I made the shelfing with left over fencing. The only thing I bought was the thermostat and hygrometer. We'll see where this ends up in 12 days! I am too excited I can barely contain myself.
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:fl. We will wait for pictures, and talk you through it. The waiting makes lots of sane BYC people crazy.
 
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microchick said:
Well I am a red head, or was before time caught up with my hair follicles. Crazy sorta kinda goes along with being a red head (red heads are actually genetic mutants) but I don't wear hoop earrings. Learned that real fast when I got my chickens.
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sweet!!! I am so anti hoops ha ha ha!!!! sounds good with your setting have at it!!!
 
Sally Sunshine said:
Thank goodness!  I read before her fever broke, did it come back over the past two days? 

and your now sick with a bug of a different type, :sick   either way, I hope you kick it out soon!
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No. Once I dosed her the second time, it stayed gone.
:gig Maybe she realized I was serious about taking her temperature rectally.
I think my issue is on its way out. :fl
 
JenniferDuBay said:
Okay, so I have just candled my first eggs, so exciting. I set 84 eggs, and after tossing 9 for blood rings, I now have 54 developing. The remaining are clear and I've put them in a lower shelf just to be sure until I candle next. I find all of this rather amazing considering what I'm hatching them in. My home made incubator, nicknamed the junkobator was literally pulled from my neighbor's to the trash pile, disinfected thoroughly and I stuck two strands of christmas lights in it. I added a fan, but I'm not too happy with it's placement, and I made the shelfing with left over fencing. The only thing I bought was the thermostat and hygrometer. We'll see where this ends up in 12 days! I am too excited I can barely contain myself.
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sweet!! did we see your bator yet? what temp are you running at the egg level?
 
Sally Sunshine said:
sweet!! did we see your bator yet? what temp are you running at the egg level?
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Here it is, no laughing!






I'm sitting at 99 at the middle and bottom, and 98 at the top near the fan. There doesn't seem to be any temperature fluctuations over time, but there is definitely stratification. When I rebuild this, I'm going to have the lights on the side and a line of fans on the back, I think. Not sure how to ensure the temp is even throughout.
 

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