Filling the incubator 6-3-2011 Join me for my 1st attempt?

[stitch_b]

I just had a little scare I went to check my temps and it was down around 94/94...im hoping I caught it in time to not affect anything also my humidity is a little low I think too. Im reading just below 70% - is this ok or should I increase it? And if so how? Maybe tape up a vent hole or two???

 

[hudsonnascarfan]

id close up a vent or so then the temp should come back up and the humidity should increase along with the temp

 

[jfulcher]

Ahhh put a new bulb in! But I didn't realize the old bulb was a 60watt... This one is a 100watt. Should be more efficient at heating up the bator, quicker cycles, maybe the thermostat will work better! <<<< trying to be confident...

 

[Mmmatt13]

So for this hatch, my final numbers are: 5 hatched out of 11 that made it to lockdown out of 25 originally. Not good statistics.

My incubator is driving me up the wall. The evaporating pad was completely soaked, but the temp on the Brinsea was reading low 70s. This is my first ever Brinsea and so far it is NOT making me happy.
I need to figure this thing out before I try again. SO tedious. *Sigh*

 

[jfulcher]

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Well that didnt work so well.... Confidence gone.....

 

[hudsonnascarfan]

its almost 2 am now still nothing but we still have 3 eggs rocking a little bit i keep checking on them about every half hr and so has my wife so we are still hopefull and the temp is holding good ym thinking about going to bed and hopefully when i get up we will have a bunch of fuzzy butts in there but i know i wont get much sleep

 

[jfulcher]

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Ahhh I am so excited to hear if you get babies! My hatch isn't going as well, but it is my first hatch with young, inexperienced quails first lays. So it is everyone in my houses firsts lol!

 

[hudsonnascarfan]

yeah our first try at hatching here too we are hopeing that we can get a few of these ones to hatch out we are going to give them to our grand kids with a chicken tractor when they come out of the brooder next batch is going to be black australorps ive already got it set up to get the eggs next week im getting 2 to 3 dozen eggs the person im getting them from said the oldest eggs are only going to be 3 days old they have 15 layers and 2 roosters with them so we should be all set they are saying they are pulling out 13 to 14 eggs a day from the henhouse so i wont be giving up for some time im still learning myself

 

[hudsonnascarfan]

l we have one pip it just happened it was one of the eggs that was rocking and i heard some peeping comeing out of tha incubator so thats a good thing still keeping our fingers crossed for them all

 

[hudsonnascarfan]

k the one that piped hatched compleatly at 5 am now at 7;30 we have another pip the first one is peeping alot amd the second one is starting to peep back to it like they are chatting lol if they are going to hatch one at a time and be this far spaced out this hatch is going to take a long time to finish i just can belive how small they are the chicks we got this past may from the feed store were twice as big as this little fuzz butt i am happy that the second one that pip is the brown egg i couldnt see verry good into but so far the white eggs havent started yet its the brown eggs first i guess