Hawgon
Songster
I bought a Brinsea Mini-advanced incubator for just educational and general hatching purposes for myself and for my grand-daughters, After getting it I put an ad on craigslist looking for cheap, fertile eggs to hatch. We already have 6 chickens, which is enough for us and we would put the new ones on craigslist or a local farm a mile up the road will take any we have as they are low on them this year. A lady responded and said she has Seramas and was having a hard time hatching them and she would donate some eggs to me to try to hatch with the understanding that if any chicks hatched she would get them which is fine with me as we werent going to keep any anyway. After plugging in my incubator I found that the turner did not work so I had to send it back to Brinse and they repaired it but that took any extra week so by the time I got the eggs that she had "saved" for me they were approaching two weeks old. She said that she had rotated them and other stuff you egg people do to give them the best chance at hatching.
I put them in the incubator and read that Seramas incubate in 19 days so I set it up for that and got a cigar hygrometer and away we went. After a 7 or 8 days I candled them and 5 out of 10 looked like they were doing well with veins and it looked very similar to what I see it should look like on-line. The other 5 were just clear so I threw those away and now 3 days later I candled the remaining 5 and there are things moving in there! Kinda strange for a first-timer! Very excited and my wife even started crying after I should her the little buggers moving. My question is now what? I know the last 2 days I need to raise the humidity and I have the turner set to turn off those last two days also. Temp has been running at about 100.1 and humidity at 40% or so. Turner is set to rotate every 2 hours at 90 degrees. I would appreciate any advice or ??? anybody can give a very rookie guy trying something totally new. I understand that Seramas are hard to hatch anyway but what the heck they were free!!!
Luvin this website.........
I put them in the incubator and read that Seramas incubate in 19 days so I set it up for that and got a cigar hygrometer and away we went. After a 7 or 8 days I candled them and 5 out of 10 looked like they were doing well with veins and it looked very similar to what I see it should look like on-line. The other 5 were just clear so I threw those away and now 3 days later I candled the remaining 5 and there are things moving in there! Kinda strange for a first-timer! Very excited and my wife even started crying after I should her the little buggers moving. My question is now what? I know the last 2 days I need to raise the humidity and I have the turner set to turn off those last two days also. Temp has been running at about 100.1 and humidity at 40% or so. Turner is set to rotate every 2 hours at 90 degrees. I would appreciate any advice or ??? anybody can give a very rookie guy trying something totally new. I understand that Seramas are hard to hatch anyway but what the heck they were free!!!
Luvin this website.........
