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[SusanJoM]

You go Kitty !!!!

Now we know the skillet can be used successfully as a hatcher.

We're still waiting for a successful incubation report, right?

Someone's gonna get it to work for the whole process.....I just know it....

Susan

 

[revelu]

this is probably posted elsewhere and I'm looking through the forum search results, but this might be faster-- how do you get air flow in an electric skillet?

 

[Farmer Kitty]

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If you follow the link in my sig you will find the directions. But, skillets have vent holes already you leave those open. I am also with the hatches putting a smaller allen wrench in one corner to let more air in. We theroized that maybe my hatch had been lost due to not enough air flow amoung other things.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Put another 9 eggs into the skillet for hatching.
6 hatched
3 fizzled out-had fully developed just didn't absorb yolk and hatch.

 

[Sahara]

I'm on day 11 with 12 eggs in the skillet. Still need to candle so will report back later.

 

[jaybme]

Farmer Kitty, I am new to chickens, so you probably know this already, but my understanding is that too much humidity causes the yolk to not be absorbed?

A quote from University of Nebrasks-Lincoln Extension:
"Low humidity can cause the shell to stick to chicks, rough navels, small chicks, short down, and/or death. High humidity can cause an unabsorbed yolk sac, resulting in the chicks being smeared with yolk."

I wonder if lower air flow along with slightly elevated humidity would be the cause?

I am a science teacher so I am always trying new ways to do things, but in this case getting eggs to try out different incubation rates is too difficult for me, as I live in a city. I have been following your threads on this- a great idea in my opinion!

Cheers, Jaybme

 

[Farmer Kitty]

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I've read that too! But, I set the humidity at the recommended 60-65% and it only goes up when the chicks are hatching, which is normal.