"gambling" with fate to defend my eggs' life (he/she make it!!!!)

[mulia24]

@ shiningfeather : thank you for wishing lucky for us. by the way, how about joining the duck eggs with my new chicken eggs? i just candled them, i found 2 is showed great vein and moving, 2 is dead, i even have throw 1 egg cause i really sure that it have no more chance. i really sad having 2 failed, just 2 left now.....

 

[Shiningfeather]

Yes mulia24, you can put the duck eggs with the chicken eggs. do it the next time you turn them, so that you don't have to open the incubator any extra times. Do it quickly but gently and they should be fine.

I am so sorry you lost two more, but you still have two so you can still have two cute little fuzzy ducks.

With just learning how to incubate your eggs it can be difficult, and you have over come so much to get where you are in your learning. I doubt many would go to the work you have if we had to deal with the power outages like you do. You are very resourceful, and strong in willpower, that is a great thing.

 

[mulia24]

thank you for the support, i think that i should throw the "stink" eggs to my power company in order to remind them what have they done by shutting power down every day.

i want to join them but i still afraid it will ruin everything cause the temp could fluctuate and unstable too much since i haven't get good thermohygro for them all.

i want to buy thermohyrgo through e bay, but i just don't know which one is good in quality. any advice?

 

[Chickenaddict]

awww mulia I am sorry to hear about your 2 duck eggs but look at it this way.... WIth all the obsitcles you have had to deal with especially with the electricity issues the other 2 duck eggs are miracles!!! I have had 0 hatches from my store bought incubator with no electricity problems so you are very lucky to have those 2 duck eggs still growing strong. Maybe one of your hens will go broody and you can set some eggs under her then you don't have to worry about the power going out? Sometimes if you let the eggs add up in the nest it gives the hens the urge to sit on them

Best of luck to you on your awesome adventure

I will be praying for those duck eggs to hatch for you

Edited to add: If you weren't so far away I'd send you a broody hen to sit on those eggs, I have a ton of them this season. Seems one hen no sooner hatches chicks and 2 more hens go broody.

 

[Shiningfeather]

No, I really don't know which thermohyrgo would be the best. I have two that I got at the same time and made by the same company and they are both different also. I did calibrate both of mine, but still don't know how accurate they are.

Maybe someone else on here can give you a suggestion on one that is better.

 

[mulia24]

than you for wishing and praying for lucky for those eggs. it really helps.

ups, i'm sorry to hear that you have ever got 0 hatched. but since you have tons of broody then you have free electricity and QC passed natural incubator.

oh thank you for that but i think it would be far for you.

i can't wait to see them hatching, its now the 15th days, i think it would be 2 weeks more, duck eggs need 28 eggs i tough.

 

[mulia24]

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no problem, yap, i think that another could still helped me to know which one better. i just confused, of course we can't calibrated the digital thermometer, it would be broken when we try to calibrate it by "insert" it into glass of ice or glass of boiling water.

 

[PeepsInc]

Mulia, I've never eaten a Black Sumatra chicken. I only have 1 rooster left alive out of 5 chicks.They are one of my favorite out of all my birds.They remind me of a crow or raven. I'm going to trade some cochin chicks to my friend for some more sumatra's. The medicinal value must be like that of a Silkie, due to the black skin & bones.
A temp drop may not affect your hatch much. I had the viewing glass fall out of my bator on day 8. The temp dropped low for a 12 hour period. I had a few that didn't hatch,but I believe they were roosters. I hatched a 4 hen to one Roo ratio that time. I have hatched out about 70 birds this year, with out a hydro meter. The last 2 hatches I didn't even have a thermometer, dew to it braking. Keep positive thoughts my friend. Best of luck to you!

 

[mulia24]

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wew, i think they can't survive in my country without thermohygro since when power failure happen and i use kerosene, the temp can get into 43 deg, i have tested it myself.

i'm now looking in ebay for thermohygro, amazing, there are so many and cheap even new with seller status "power seller", i just have to pay it by paypal, i even have no funds on my paypal. i want to ask you if you know, is it possible to add funds to our paypal account using bank transfer outside USA? cause i only see USA bank transfer only. it's so cheap many item in ebay, i can even buy one only for US$ 2 (exclude shipping). when i need to pay it for US$ 23 in my country.

thank you for helping and encouraging me to hatch these wonderful eggs.

edit : price and shipping. OMG, the shipping cost is so expensive, grrr, shipping cost higher than the item price itself.

 

[mulia24]

really bad day i got today. after arrived at home at 22:00 and tired work. take a bath and suddenly rain fall, power failure happen, force me to run for my bator, get the old bator get down of temp so fast, reach 35, i run for kerosene lamp, turn it on, now holding it with help if candle and reaching 38 now.

styro bator didn't do it well, actually holding heat so much very good. but when in power failure country, its ability "almost" "useless" since i have to light kerosene lamp and put it into styro, can you imagine when the hot air produced by kerosene lamp touch the styro, wew, the styro is "melting". even the styro can get on fire by only touched by the hot air produced by kerosene lamp.

and now, i'm putting a kerosene lamp inside my styro bator, i put only 1 with small flame and i put a piece of "plate of iron" i cut from a can on the "glass" of kerosene lamp so when it produce hot air, it can touch directly to the styro but it touch the "plate" so the plate hold the heat. and let only 2 vents open, i know there are so many CO2 now inside the bator but how can i avoid it.

and on the old, i put a candle and 1 kerosene lamp, i know how to keep the old bator not fluctuating so much, but now with candle i can't afford to do it.

now, the question: should i place the whole new eggs (29 eggs) into old bator? or put the 2 survived duck eggs into new bator? remember to power failure happen in my country. i just candled the duck eggs, i "confess" i have a pair of really itchy hands, but i candled now not because itchy but cause i want to make sure they're fine. they are so beauty, he/she moving around the eggs. wonderful scene.

i want to keep them survive, but i also want to keep 29 eggs keep growing, how? i can't handle two bator at the same time, i have to focus at one only, this all caused by this dirty power failure country.

and now i'm spending my night with my battery lower than 50% and keeping my eggs and my bator not on fire. and i can't believe it now is 12:41 AM midnight. is that my fate? i don't want to murd** them, i have grow them and will always protect them. i have choose to incubate them and i don't want to become a people that known in history for kil*ing embryos that i grown myself.