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[Brookhavens]

Is 76% too high for hatch day?

I would try to bring it down to around 70-72% Once the chicks start hatching it will go even higher and you don't want to drown the ones that haven't pipped yet.

 

[CamiLynn]

I here chirps from the bator!!! I'm doing a hatch for the first time in the egg carton cause they are shipped eggs and hate it so far!!! I can't see movement or if the pip the opposite side of the egg or the wrong end....AHHHHH!!
I'm more nervous this time that something will go wrong because of being in an egg carton!!

Should I take then out of the carton?? Help!!

 

[CamiLynn]

I here chirps from the bator!!! I'm doing a hatch for the first time in the egg carton cause they are shipped eggs and hate it so far!!! I can't see movement or if the pip the opposite side of the egg or the wrong end....AHHHHH!!
I'm more nervous this time that something will go wrong because of being in an egg carton!!

Should I take then out of the carton?? Help!!

 

[Roxannemc]

Thanks I just can't spend hundreds on an incubator (remember the husband who thinks this is bogus, lol) but I am so determined to do this right, but even on here the advise is so broad and different from one person to the next. I am thinking it's a gamble no matter what.

First be patient.It is nerve wracking.It takes time to get it all right and while you are ...check the temp Often!!!.
Unless you have a Brineas or a Genesis you will have these issue
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If it spiked for minutes it may not have hurt them as its takes them a while to warm up.

You do have to dinker with the temp .but every time you move the setting do it just a tiny bit and leave it for an hour or 2 so see where it takes you Then ajust more tiny bit at a time. You might try some washed rocks in the bator to sinc it so it wont cool fast on you anyway

Also sounds silly but mine did that at first ... then i put mine in.... my closet
.Read on here to do that ..but i thought I didnt have a draft problem but my closet settled the temp swings down a LOT
Unfortunately the better the bator is the more it costs.

HOWEVER if you are adventurous.. talk to Brookhaven she made one and i think you can do it for like$40 or $60 tops..Maybe less if you have some of the parts like an old computer its fan ...and an old cooler..
,You tube has videos on how to make them too.
Brook says hers is really reliable but you do need a temp gauge that ajusts the temp so it wont go too high . or low ..and a few other things. She is right though it does take awhile to know how your bator reacts and what to do

 

[Roxannemc]

I here chirps from the bator!!! I'm doing a hatch for the first time in the egg carton cause they are shipped eggs and hate it so far!!! I can't see movement or if the pip the opposite side of the egg or the wrong end....AHHHHH!!
I'm more nervous this time that something will go wrong because of being in an egg carton!!

Should I take then out of the carton?? Help!!

Dont open it now if you are past day 18!!
They will be ok if they are going to hatch they will
I am doing a little study on this and i have hatched about 1/2 and 1/2 so far. So it wont hurt them
Opening it might hurt them worse and at this point you might disorientate them if you lay them down .GOOD LUCK!

 

[Roxannemc]

I dont know what I am more addicted to, this thread or checking my eggs!! Out waiting in the pick up line at my kids school and since I cant check my eggs I am on here!! I may need a 12 step program before this is over...or another incubator full of eggs lol!!

YEP you will!!Im at the eye doc today my eyes dialated and im on here...BAD!!!

 

[PugBug]

Ok here are my Isbar babies! Still in the shell, but doing GREAT!!! I am so happy they are doing so well. They are big chicks. I've had to help a tiny bit, even w/ humidity up the membrane dries so I q-tip warm water on it & roll back onto the shell. Seems to free them up a little. No blood, veins are drying up well. Sorry 2nd pic blurry- more pics later as progress made

 

[CamiLynn]

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Dont open it now if you are past day 18!! They will be ok if they are going to hatch they will I am doing a little study on this and i have hatched about 1/2 and 1/2 so far. So it wont hurt them Opening it might hurt them worse and at this point you might disorientate them if you lay them down .GOOD LUCK!

Ugh I know this but I'm stubborn and freaking out!! Lol I did open it to make sure there wasn't any pips I couldn't see and found the chirper...no external pip just internal and the one that's chirping has the worst air cell of them all!! It's a huge "u" and he started of chirping so loud and I couldn't hear anything for a while and the only way I heard it chirp when I opened was to delicately put it to my ear! Yes, I know I shouldn't have opened but I threw warm wash clothes and sponge in there to keep the humidity up. Do I assist at a certain point since its air cell is so huge??

 

[PugBug]

Thank you and YAY!!

I was like you except all I was told was she was a bantam...I searched and searched to figure out what she was. BTW her name is Lil Bit, she was the only bantam I had in with about 10 other normal sized chicks and she held her own with the big kids and still does. Congrats on your babies! I have more pics and better pics of her in my photos on here.

I looked @ your pics of her- and YES this is what I have. DH said they were the only 2 like this, so he got both. Now that I've seen how they look as adults I wish I had a few more- maybe I'll get lucky, they'll turn out 1 male 1 female! I'm so glad I saw yours so I know what I have

 

[CamiLynn]

[COLOR=B22222]I looked @ your pics of her- and YES this is what I have. DH said they were the only 2 like this, so he got both. Now that I've seen how they look as adults I wish I had a few more- maybe I'll get lucky, they'll turn out 1 male 1 female! I'm so glad I saw yours so I know what I have [/COLOR]

Yea she was the only blue they had at that time also. She's my only one and my bf's favorite so I completely understand. Fingers crossed that you have pair...then I might be bugging you for a chick or hatching egg lol