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

[DwayneNLiz]

Hi everybody. Bill and I are both sick. He is throwing up and I have a sore throat. I have a long readback to do but will catch up after I wake up and do bird chores. Think I may have figured our something on the serama hatch!

feel better

did you know that we can text now? lol, not all the time but we can

Hello there, first of all let me apologize in advance. Ive been trying-and I think I'm missing something. I've been trying to read and educate myself as much as possible before we set our eggs. I've been playing with our Ovation 28 Brinsea incubator for a couple days trying to get the humidity level 45% as instructed in the book before we put eggs in. I have used the factory settings, and the humidity still keeps saying it's at 65%. What I don't understand is on the settings through the menu and the manual it says that the humidity should be set at 20%, but the way I understand it the humidity should be 45%, so do I need to go in there and change it? I realize it's a British product, but the humidity percent should be the same figure either way. All of the factory settings are regulating normal and it seems to be working just fine except for the fact that the humidity is 65%. I did have water in there, about 1/2 a cup, and I took a lot of it out this morning. The vent is open all the way.
Help!

calibrate it, remove all water, its not the amount of the water its the surface area

i failed lol, but when i have time i will figure it out

So glad you're here! Hope you feel back to normal soon!


@Fire Ant Farm

Hubby said I could come up there and butcher the ducks/chickens when you're ready to do it. He said we had to buy the stuff to butcher anyways, and he's not in a huge hurry. He's not looking forward to doing ducks. He'd looked up turkey's and chickens though.

Edited to add : He also told me he'll buy the stuff to do it himself once he saw I was going to cut him out of the picture and have a "Friend" help me. I think he got his feelings hurt.

i think we have talked about his feelings before LOL

Guys, my fertile chicken eggs just arrived today, and my humidity is at 35%, it's supposed to be at 45-50%! I need it to go up soon, before the eggs get too cold! What should I do to make the humidity higher?

nothing yet, check ACs in 7-10 days

lol did you get it sweets?
hugs and love
hi kaj, how piglets?

oh its in full swing, along with a very large grin from ear to ear..... oh wait thats my surgery scar

Did I mention I had no idea they would do it from the front and make me look like Frankenmommasita? yeah well go me, kids are lovin my new name.


I feel your pain whites, feel like been beaten in the back of the neck with a shovel and slit from ear to ear.... but its all for the better good, its eight days now, I finally have laptop on my lap, although its gonna be short lived because seems my upper arms say oh no momma, you just get your tush back to that bed stat

you will love scarves, pashminas, and things
or FLAUNT it!!

ok here is my update, not sure how the rest of the day will treat me, but I was here


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thats my spot, dont loose it


2 cervical anterior discectomy and then plates and fusion c3-7 my issue is currently that surgery has screwed up my ability to swallow solid foods, I choke on the simplest liquids too. A rare occurrence for this but if it is gonna happen it would be me of course. steroids and rest, time will heal.


with that, I am heading back into my cool wormhole to sleep the day away

i'll keep an eye on your spot so it doesnt get lost

Chickens. "Apparently" they need to be at 45-50%... I dunno

nope 35 is fine

Nvm. I opened the remaining eggs and all of them were dead. Most looked fully developed and one even internally pipped but all dead

so sorry

congrats on the others though

My 2 little chicks are doing well in the brooder.

I suppose I'm going to have to name them, at some point.

let the kids do it

 

[kajira]

feel better

did you know that we can text now? lol, not all the time but we can

calibrate it, remove all water, its not the amount of the water its the surface area


i failed lol, but when i have time i will figure it out

i think we have talked about his feelings before LOL

nothing yet, check ACs in 7-10 days

you will love scarves, pashminas, and things
or FLAUNT it!!

i'll keep an eye on your spot so it doesnt get lost

nope 35 is fine

so sorry

congrats on the others though

let the kids do it

She wants to name of them Luckster.... we already have a lucky. I can't do it. nope. I'd get them confused.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

She wants to name of them Luckster.... we already have a lucky. I can't do it. nope. I'd get them confused.

she put together lucky and star

lol

my daughter names them after foods like apple, peach, guacamole, carrot, tomato, etc

 

[kajira]

she put together lucky and star

lol

my daughter names them after foods like apple, peach, guacamole, carrot, tomato, etc

haha, those are good names. Peach and Apple.

Done.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

haha, those are good names. Peach and Apple.

Done.

peach and apple were sisters, they were barred EEs, peach had a beard apple did not (peach went to a new home, apple got eaten)

lol

 

[kajira]

peach and apple were sisters, they were barred EEs, peach had a beard apple did not (peach went to a new home, apple got eaten)

lol

haha that's funny.

Apple will be what I think is the pure-bred EE, and Peach will be the Sex link X EE.

One's yellow, and the other is grey-yellow. (if that makes sense.)

 

[kajira]

I might have just put 10 more eggs in my incubator, just to see what hatches.

 

[meltel]

Readback complete!

@DwayneNLiz

for texts
@Sally Sunshine prayers for healing and patience-so hard to "wait"
@daxigait and all the other hatchers, this is the hatch update-congrats on the kids
I cracked open a couple for eggtopsy and they were alive! One I will have to cull because the legs are severely malpoed. one is weak, 2 looked ok. Have to find out why. One was the stand up turner one was the black one. i am adding high nutritional vitamins and supplements to see if that makes a difference. about 1/2 from each batch made it to lockdown. I may try a higher temp and humidity during the 1st 18 days too to see if that helps. seems like bad legs are from hatches that take too long. oh and 1 died under the heater. the rest are running around like maniacs in the pack and play new brooder. grow outs are getting huge and moved to cages.
@Chaos18 congrats on the flowers

Bath time?? will you be cooking for them too??

@kajira sorry about the 2 but glad fertility is confirmed
@Fire Ant Farm sorry about the NN baby

for the ones on the way.
To anybody i missed

I'm sorry I feel

today. Bills stomach thing hit me so I am more "off" than usual

I don't know how anybody not from Michigan gets over being sick without Vernors (Michigan gingerale-tastes totally different and is my best friend)

 

[OneMountainAcres]

@BantyChooks, my hatching update.

Turkeys, lavender ameraucanas, silkies, and CCL hatching every week from now till July lol

 

[jwlpoultry]

Well while I was in TSC this morning I resisted the chicks and ducklings. That is a good thing right?