Your temp is great, but I'd watch that humidity- it might be ok, but honestly I would lower it some. When the humidity is high like that days 1-18, the air cell does not get big enough, then chicks will drown while trying to hatch. It's better to have the humidity too low during the first 18 days than too high. I know everyone has their own opinion on stuff like this & of course where you live has an effect as well. Good luck
you're KILLIN' ME SMALLS!!!Ya'll my bator looks like popcorn popping over here!!!!!!!! So far 4 have hatched (3 @ the same time) & 5 of the other eggs have pipped- only 1 left that has not pipped yet. This is so great! I'll take a group shot when they are all here
ouch!!! Broken toes??? poor baby!!still waiting on the 5 pips, no further progress since they started this morning. the last egg still has not pipped...
the 4 hatchlings are doing great tho- I did have to make a boot for the 1st that hatched. I think it might have caught it's foot in the turner of the big bator. looks like 2 broke toes on that foot. it's other foot is normal, I booted it like I did for Peeps and now it's walking around just fine
ups dropped off a new pen I ordered, when I get it put together & stained I'll put all the SFH in it since it's a little bigger than the others. then I can move the lav & cho orp chicks to pens outside too- boy are they getting stinky LOL I change the pine shavings every other day, but I guess with that many it's expected to stink!
if we can get some dry weather long enough we can build the runs to add onto the pens/houses. I feel bad for them not having more room but until the weather cooperates nothing to be done about it
I am OH so happy you are as loony as me!!!NOOO!!!
DH is driving me nuts!! He thinks he's so cute... what that's not gonna fly mister!
Yes, it's FINALLY the weekend. We've both worked hard all week, and for us the weekend is family time. I get that honey, really I do! Now, the bowling tournament tomorrow is about 1/2 hour away. We have to be there by 7am, and it could last well into the afternoon. All this time my chickie-doodles could be hatching! Well, between here & the bowling, there is a town with a TSC. He told me, hey maybe we'll stop at that TSC after and see if they have the other chicks we wanted. Then he says "I might have a surprise for after the bowling tournament tomorrow." Oh really honey, what kind of surprise?! I can't imagine us needing anything else. Then he tells me it's a surprise for our other son who is 10 years old. Apparently a guy from his work also lives in this same town as the TSC, and he wants us all to go there after the tournament for "pine car racing... or pine box derby" whatever the heck that is!! He's trying to lure me into this town with chicks!! He's plays dirty hard ball, but it's not working. He even brought me home some new wine today. I should have known...
Any other time I would have no problem with this, lovely dear husband of mine!! BUT NOT TOMORROW!!
I told him... Don't make me drive separately!!! We are going there, and then we are coming HOME!! If I had an outlet in my flipping belly button I'd take the bator with us, but I can't! So either we go there as a family and support our son, and then come straight home... or I will have to stay here.He laughed & said ya know they have an adapter for the car for that!
I have yet to figure out if he's being serious, or if he's just toying with me cuz he sees how I am when I pass by the bator 80 billion times a day. Did you know that I can "candle" my eggs without even taking them out of the incubator? It's candle cheating and it's fascinating!! I can see the air sack just by holding the light up to the side. Yes, I know it's not helping me, but I wonder if I'll be able to see internal pips this way. I want to try it tomorrow.... ... but HE knows I'm a teeny tiny bit obsessed, and I sure hope he's just screwing with me.
i got 4 sultan eggs (solid white) and 4 frizzle/sizzle eggs. I am going to put them in incubator #3 in the morning, then that gives me a week or so to make incubator #4 (shut it!!) and then I have a lockdown incubator.....
YOU ARE SO SWEET!I'm so happy for you! Can't wait till they hatch!
OH NO He did NOT! And yes we are obsessed, more than a tiny bit too. I'd be tempted to drive separatelyNOOO!!!
DH is driving me nuts!! He thinks he's so cute... what that's not gonna fly mister!
Yes, it's FINALLY the weekend. We've both worked hard all week, and for us the weekend is family time. I get that honey, really I do! Now, the bowling tournament tomorrow is about 1/2 hour away. We have to be there by 7am, and it could last well into the afternoon. All this time my chickie-doodles could be hatching! Well, between here & the bowling, there is a town with a TSC. He told me, hey maybe we'll stop at that TSC after and see if they have the other chicks we wanted. Then he says "I might have a surprise for after the bowling tournament tomorrow." Oh really honey, what kind of surprise?! I can't imagine us needing anything else. Then he tells me it's a surprise for our other son who is 10 years old. Apparently a guy from his work also lives in this same town as the TSC, and he wants us all to go there after the tournament for "pine car racing... or pine box derby" whatever the heck that is!! He's trying to lure me into this town with chicks!! He's plays dirty hard ball, but it's not working. He even brought me home some new wine today. I should have known...
Any other time I would have no problem with this, lovely dear husband of mine!! BUT NOT TOMORROW!!
I told him... Don't make me drive separately!!! We are going there, and then we are coming HOME!! If I had an outlet in my flipping belly button I'd take the bator with us, but I can't! So either we go there as a family and support our son, and then come straight home... or I will have to stay here.He laughed & said ya know they have an adapter for the car for that!
I have yet to figure out if he's being serious, or if he's just toying with me cuz he sees how I am when I pass by the bator 80 billion times a day. Did you know that I can "candle" my eggs without even taking them out of the incubator? It's candle cheating and it's fascinating!! I can see the air sack just by holding the light up to the side. Yes, I know it's not helping me, but I wonder if I'll be able to see internal pips this way. I want to try it tomorrow.... ... but HE knows I'm a teeny tiny bit obsessed, and I sure hope he's just screwing with me.
