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

[Sally Sunshine]

Today I got one freakish Araucana egg ever!
Normaly they lay 55-57 grams egg today I got a 87 gr egg!

pretty eggs too!

I've got an external duck pip!!!!

yayyyayyay!!!

Today is day 6 we had power out for 8 hours a couple days ago, but I think they will be ok. Gonna candle 'em tomorrow!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

There was an earlier post about bears - I'm VERY glad we have no bears down here. I think the biggest thing I"ve seen in my area is a mountain lion - not in my yard, but in the hills close by. My old house, we had one that was wandering around our neighborhood, but she was sick and died before we could trap her. But when I lived up north, the ski resort at June Lake was getting ready to open for the season, they freezer was stocked a week ahead of time. Nobody went up there for a couple of days, but when they did, they found the ENTIRE SIDE OF THE BUILDING was torn open all the way into the freezer, and the food was gone. If they are left alone, there isn't much that will stop them from getting what they want.

not sure I want lions before bears !!!

 

[dan26552]

pretty eggs too!

yayyyayyay!!!

up to three!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

My runner eggs are at the end of day 23. I candled them tonight and two of them are just completely black! I can see veins on the pointy end so they are definitely alive. Are they getting in the hatch position?

should be getting ready in the next few days to internal pip! good luck!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: hmmm you sleep through it?
Hello, Darlin'

hi whites!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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[dan26552]

They sure are quiet, not a lot of peeping. :/

 

[kajira]

So - I'm pretty sure the goat's were premature, which is why she abandoned them. One wasn't fully "ready" looking if that makes sense? and the other isn't mature enough to walk. He's sure *trying* to live, and he eats like a champ, but he doesn't have the strength to stand on his feet for more then about 30 seconds.... so i'm hoping if I get him strong, he'll develop and catch up to what he needs to be. If he survives, hubby already said we could fix him and just keep him as a pet.

A preemie pet for our preemie toddler. ^.^ He's already been named Tarzan.

 

[dan26552]

So - I'm pretty sure the goat's were premature, which is why she abandoned them. One wasn't fully "ready" looking if that makes sense? and the other isn't mature enough to walk. He's sure *trying* to live, and he eats like a champ, but he doesn't have the strength to stand on his feet for more then about 30 seconds.... so i'm hoping if I get him strong, he'll develop and catch up to what he needs to be. If he survives, hubby already said we could fix him and just keep him as a pet.

A preemie pet for our preemie toddler. ^.^  He's already been named Tarzan.

I hope he makes it!
Pack goat!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

For all those wondering why their hatches failed, or why they were quitters at a certain point during incubation, I say the following.
I've had lots of failures but I know many of the reasons. Usually temperature or turning issues.
But, until you are absolutely positive the temperature was stable between 99.5 and 100.5, and the humidity made the eggs lose about 0.65% weight each day, and the eggs were turned at least 4 times a day during the first 2 weeks, you can't begin to ascertain if any of the other 20 possible culprits were responsible.
Get the most important things done first and then look for other issues.
Buying crappy thermometers and hygrometers from walmart or relying on those on the incubator is no guarantee those important things are addressed.
For the most part, no matter where you get those gauges, they are likely to only be accurate to within about 2% and likely farther off than that. That isn't accurate enough for incubation. I've had thermometers from incubator companies be spot on at 70F and 2 degrees off at 100F. I've had crappy hygrometers that I calibrated and 2 days later they were off by 30%. They went right into the trash and I got a good scale instead. RH% needed is a guess. Weight is not.
I'll get off my soapbox now - for a while.