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

[dan26552]

Hello MC!

Hello Banti!



Hi Dax! Congratulations on the kids. At 6 you should be able to get at least a couple more tries for the doeling, or are big goats different? Still seeing plug coming out from one of one due tomorrow.

Good luck! You should be doing more laying and less sitting. 

Hello Pensmaster!

Congratulations! 
Is your house low humidity? I fill my Brinsea at lockdown and it usually lasts until hatch is complete.

Good Luck! 





Banti! Something wrong?

Thanks! I've cracked open five eggs in the last two days and they've all been fertile

What movie is that?

Shhhhhhhh!

And me, too.

You don't know what The Princess Bride is??

 

[NaJoBeLe]

Well it's official, read back is not going to happen. I got started a couple times but got pulled away. Each time I came back the unread post was back above 500.

Hatch didn't go so well, 17 of 37 that went into lockdown made it out but I lost 2 of those already. Had 3 with external pips that never zipped and the rest never attempted. They were all my eggs from a mixed flock but the eggs from my leghorn hens had the worst stats. I had 16 of those eggs and only 2 hatched.

Have a work trip towards the end of March so the incubator will be off until I set for EHAL.

Haven't started anything with the new incubator build either, parts started rolling in but not the parts I wanted to start with so it'll probably be this weekend before I start working it.

That's a recap for me Hope everyone is doing well, Sorry for the losses I read about in my limited readback.

 

[daxigait]

They are sacking up, one I see lots of plug coming out.

. Thought my 3-1 buck ratio was bad, but Cozy is like 19-3. What's in the water?

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: Nope

Well it's official, read back is not going to happen. I got started a couple times but got pulled away. Each time I came back the unread post was back above 500.

Hatch didn't go so well, 17 of 37 that went into lockdown made it out but I lost 2 of those already. Had 3 with external pips that never zipped and the rest never attempted. They were all my eggs from a mixed flock but the eggs from my leghorn hens had the worst stats. I had 16 of those eggs and only 2 hatched.

Have a work trip towards the end of March so the incubator will be off until I set for EHAL.

Haven't started anything with the new incubator build either, parts started rolling in but not the parts I wanted to start with so it'll probably be this weekend before I start working it.

That's a recap for me Hope everyone is doing well, Sorry for the losses I read about in my limited readback.

Sorry about the hatch, at least you got some. Good luck with the build.

Quote: Oh, I better get a much better ratio than that.

 

[dan26552]

 

[DwayneNLiz]

What movie is that?

Shhhhhhhh!

And me, too.

oh, poor mike, you are cruisin for a bruisin from mc

Well it's official, read back is not going to happen. I got started a couple times but got pulled away. Each time I came back the unread post was back above 500.

Hatch didn't go so well, 17 of 37 that went into lockdown made it out but I lost 2 of those already. Had 3 with external pips that never zipped and the rest never attempted. They were all my eggs from a mixed flock but the eggs from my leghorn hens had the worst stats. I had 16 of those eggs and only 2 hatched.

Have a work trip towards the end of March so the incubator will be off until I set for EHAL.

Haven't started anything with the new incubator build either, parts started rolling in but not the parts I wanted to start with so it'll probably be this weekend before I start working it.

That's a recap for me Hope everyone is doing well, Sorry for the losses I read about in my limited readback.

sorry about the bad hatch

 

[kwhites634]

 

[chickengirl72]

hi,

i'm getting my incubator set up to hatch some chickens. this is only my second time hatching, so i've been rereading all the 101's.

my big problem right now is that i have 2 digital thermometer/hygrometers and a couple of glass thermometers that came with the incubators and they all have different readings.

i'm not sure how to calibrate the digitals because they don't have probes that i can put into boiling water or ice?

i think that maybe last year, i was using an average of all the different readings. i had successful hatches, but can't remember exactly what i was doing to read the temps.

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: Yes, I imagine that would be rough. Good luck!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

hi,

i'm getting my incubator set up to hatch some chickens. this is only my second time hatching, so i've been rereading all the 101's.

my big problem right now is that i have 2 digital thermometer/hygrometers and a couple of glass thermometers that came with the incubators and they all have different readings.

i'm not sure how to calibrate the digitals because they don't have probes that i can put into boiling water or ice?

i think that maybe last year, i was using an average of all the different readings. i had successful hatches, but can't remember exactly what i was doing to read the temps.

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