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

[Fire Ant Farm]

Somehow, I managed to sorta bust the coop door today when I closed it a bit forcefully to knock frozen stuff out of the way. The bottom part sort of pulled apart and bent the hinge. No clue how I'm gonna fix this thing....

(Sorry, Ralphie... Only one comment about me weighing as much as a tank allowed

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Banti, you're worrying me, since you have minks in your area. Do you have gaps larger than 1/2" closed up somehow?

Quote: I will have baby Webbers in 18 days. And then will set more goose eggs next week probably on Thursday.

Quote:

Janet had twins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I may very well die of cuteness!!!!!!

Got another pip, that's the fifth pip today

7 eggs to go.

Quote: @BantyChooks , should we add/pin this in the info regarding not giving up on cooled eggs?

I got some stuff done - ran out of light, But I did get to spend about 10 minutes with each set of chicks - I've been trying to consistently do that to get them accustomed to me, since there are several different groups. I want them to be easy to handle. Monkey got his feet soaked again (he gets his belly wet, too, so we have to dry off and blow dry, but I want to somehow rig something so his tummy doesn't get wet each time, some sort of thing he can sit on and his legs go through a hole and into the medicated water. At least he seemed to like being blown dry.

- Ant Farm

 

[jwlpoultry]

I lost all my quotes

Now I can't remember a gd thing

Hi

So sad

 

[dan26552]

Banti, you're worrying me, since you have minks in your area. Do you have gaps larger than 1/2" closed up somehow?

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I may very well die of cuteness!!!!!!
@BantyChooks
 , should we add/pin this in the info regarding not giving up on cooled eggs?

I got some stuff done - ran out of light, But I did get to spend about 10 minutes with each set of chicks - I've been trying to consistently do that to get them accustomed to me, since there are several different groups. I want them to be easy to handle. Monkey got his feet soaked again (he gets his belly wet, too, so we have to dry off and blow dry, but I want to somehow rig something so his tummy doesn't get wet each time, some sort of thing he can sit on and his legs go through a hole and into the medicated water. At least he seemed to like being blown dry. 

- Ant Farm

No, it's this one that'll get ya.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Guess what?!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote:
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...........

[thunk]

 

[BullChick]

Well, it's day 3 here and so far so good. Temp is holding between 99.5 and 100. Humidity is being a bit of a challenge until today, probably because of the temps being up in the low 60s today and all the snow melting. Since I've been turning every 3 hours it's given me the chance to either add a cc or two or sop up a cc or two depending on what the humidity and temp are doing.  Biggest drop in humidity has been overnight. The humidity in the house is at 35% but yesterday it was in the low 20s. This morning the humidity in the incubator was like 26%. It was at 36 when I went to bed. Today it's been hovering between 36 and 42% with me adding a cc of water every time I turn.

I tell ya, I have a whole new respect for broody hens. She just sits on those eggs for about 23.5 hours per day thinking Should I pull my breast feathers out or leave them be? When did I last roll these things around under me? Should I roll em around now or wait a bit? Man I'm thirsty. Need to poop too. If I roll em around now and sit on em for a bit longer maybe I can sneak off long enough to grab a bite. When did I roll em around last? That one keeps poking me in the leg pit. Wish it would move. Oh, wait, I need to move it.

All day every day for 21 days. Those little feathered dinosaurs are saints. If I was a hen I'd be contemplating smashing them all with a food bowl and heading outside for a nice long dirt bath.

Question. At what date of gestation do the chicks start making noises that the 'hen' can hear? The reason I ask is because I have the incubator sitting on my kitchen cabinet and we have 5 cats, 4 that are capable of jumping on a counter top much to my dismay and my plan is to isolate them upstairs fat night or the duration of lock down. I just need to know when that should be. What I've read so far says 48 hours before pipping the chicks can start chirping. But is that when humans can hear them or hens and if it's hens, given that cat's hearing is more acute.... See my dilemma?

I don't know when. I would say it really is two days.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Really! I have zero memory
I want your beepers

ohhhh now I see why your lost   

there there.... its k  

I really am zero memory

 

[dan26552]

Guess what?!

CHICKEN BUTT!!!!!!!!!

What?

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee........... 

[thunk]

 

[DwayneNLiz]

So sad

There is a reason I read and quote everything

Guess what?!

chickens butts??

 

[vasher]

@vasher are these serama? they look fine, but if they are serama or a breed with very tiny eggs like theirs, see this.... Incubating SERAMA EGGS post #145226

Mind you we have had serama for quite a few years now and I have hatched tons of them..... Our Serama House of Littles Click HERE

They are serama eggs! Thanks for the link--it looks like they tend to hatch a couple days early maybe? That's very good to know, they will be at 14 days this Sat, will give them a last candle. Lockdown on Tues, I guess? Humidity has been roughly 40-50 range, will make sure to keep it on the higher end of that for the next few days, then crank up to 65-70. Does that seem fine?