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

[ChickenCanoe]

I just replied on your other post.
Don't freak, that won't help.
Keep the incubator as dry as possible till day 19 or 20 and then add water. If humidity is as high as you say, shrink wrapping isn't likely.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

double post

again

 

[daxigait]

I think I found my way out of the rabbit hole.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I think I found my way out of the rabbit hole.

What rabbit hole?
I'm out of touch.

 

[LuckyCluckyCA]

I just replied on your other post.
Don't freak, that won't help.
Keep the incubator as dry as possible till day 19 or 20 and then add water. If humidity is as high as you say, shrink wrapping isn't likely.

extra meter in incubator reads 82 humidity and temp of 98.6
weather.com says it is 67 percent humidity and temp is 74.
10 day forecast is high of 74 low of 61 w 10 percent chance of rain until friday (hatch day).

so you think I should just take the water out and watch humidity? this little incubator says 100 ml all the time I just measured it out and drew a line on the incubator.

 

[LuckyCluckyCA]

LOL my friend has these incubators that I think are bigger than my kitchen. I saw a pic of her husband in front of one of four doors and there were shelves like cookie sheets behind him. I think she said she they are gqf . I dont know what that means

 

[daxigait]

as everyone around this area knows it has been a brutal month-and-a-half. we got almost 15 in of rain in May alone, and the rain continues. We can't plant we can't harvest the hay, all my Heritage Road Island reds chicks drowned because the hens had them out in the run one day but we got another one of our areal floods. they are calling an aerial floods because to call it rain is just a mild understatement. then there were the spring shows linear appraisal and life. not to mention weeks of battling footrot in goats because nothing is dry

 

[daxigait]

What rabbit hole?
I'm out of touch.

just the rabbit hole of life and not being able to get here too busy with like I said areal floods and all the other stuff not to mention this incessant foot rot.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I've grown to hate the rain. I can't get anything done, repaired, mowed or built. Forget planting. I finally wrestled my 24' extension ladder onto my porch roof after first dragging it onto the stairway roof. Then wrestled it above the toeboard to reach the house roof over 30' in the air. I did that right before a major storm came in. I just got the gutter clean when the shelf cloud started approaching with the accompanying high winds. I really didn't think I was going to be able to get back on the ladder, down 2 roof levels and then get to the nearly inaccessible ladder on the ground before the winds and deluge hit.
I really considered hunkering down on the roof and waiting it out.

 

[daxigait]

I've grown to hate the rain. I can't get anything done, repaired, mowed or built. Forget planting. I finally wrestled my 24' extension ladder onto my porch roof after first dragging it onto the stairway roof. Then wrestled it above the toeboard to reach the house roof over 30' in the air. I did that right before a major storm came in. I just got the gutter clean when the shelf cloud started approaching with the accompanying high winds. I really didn't think I was going to be able to get back on the ladder, down 2 roof levels and then get to the nearly inaccessible ladder on the ground before the winds and deluge hit.
I really considered hunkering down on the roof and waiting it out.

I am glad you did get down safely.
I truly understand trying to keep up with chores and then half the time you're walking through literally rivers of water running around your property or whatever because it's too much water. the ground has no possibility of absorbing anything more and it can't drain off fast enough. The ground is sopping and soaking wet and hasn't been dry since what late October early November?
we desperately need the reins to stop for a week and a half or so so the ground can dry out and they can actually harvest some hay with the freezing sring followed by drought last year in the floods this year we're in desperate need of hay. then hopefully the rains will come back occasionally so more can grow.