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

[mulia24]

thank you junkmanme for sharing your experience, that's would be a good way to turn the eggs.

 

[busylizzie]

Hi Mulia24 - i have been very interest in your hatching problems and the solutions you have been getting - good luck to you.......I was just wondering what have you got set up for the chicks/ducklings when they are hatched? Do you have a brooder?

 

[frenchblackcopper]

Mulia,
I envy your determination in such an unpredictable place.I was wanting to know if you have mortar or clay bricks? You could stack these up inside your box used as an incubator,they too will absord heat when your electricity is working,and will hold the warmth longer than water bottles. Or perhaps several small rocks or stones you may find around your area. Filled water bottles will work,but I think water is a much better transfer of heat than even air is,,that is why almost all automobile engines uses water as a way to cool them. I would suggest making a circle of these bricks,with your eggs in the center of all them.Like a hens nest. The more bricks you can put insde of your incubator,the more heat they all will absorb,and should take a lot longer for them to come down in temperature than water.

 

[toredano]

ok dumb question... why do eggs have to be turned in the first place.. I never got a clear answer from anyone before..( never asked on here tho )


I wont ever complain about 10 minute power outage here from storms.. 8 hours a day is really bad.
Gotta hand it to you tho... what you lack in resources, you make up in tenacity.. good luck on your hatch.

 

[wildorchid053]

the chick will attach to the wall.. when you turn them they move and float freely inside

 

[mulia24]

@ busylizzie : thank you for hoping good luck for me, I haven't build any brooder yet, but I'm going to build it when my eggs hatched, It won't took more than 10 minutes to make a brooder in my home, why? cause I open a (I don't know what the english) " a grocery shop", so it's easy to get cardboard (we call it "carton" here) and a fitting and cable to light the lamp. so I haven't it built since I'm so much worry about my eggs condition being got 4-8 hours power failure a day.

@ frenchblackcopper : mortar? is that not an equipment used in military to lunch a "small bomb"? clay brick? I don't know clay brick but I do know brick. brick is produced from (("tanah liat")i don't know the english again)= "red soil" here that used in building house here. how about "clay brick"? could you give it explanation? it would help if you could post any pics here. thank you so much for advising and helping to find out solution to solve problem in "power failure country".

@ toredano : firstly thank you for hoping good luck, about your question, if I'm not wrong I have ever read it in BYC, it's to help to make the eggs to have the same "feeling" of being treated by their mother, cause a hen could turn it about 50 times a day and also helping the embryos to adapted the situation and preparing them for hatching (once more that's IF i don't wrong reading the article). yap, that's really bad, even, I would like you to now that now, when I'm typing half of this reply, power failure happen, make all I've typed lost cause I remove my laptop battery when using AC power and now the battery only 80 % available and making me sweating to as quickly as possible light the kerosene lamp to heating my little eggs.

 

[mulia24]

@ wildorchid053 : thank you for helping us and answering question in this thread..

 

[mulia24]

more pictures I just take a few minutes ago, sorry it's power failure now.
actually i still have some picture in my N6600 but because it start to crash again I haven't enough time to send it to my laptop before it dead. i'm afraid can't share their hacthing photos...

my laptop running on low battery and a led emergency lamp

my incubator

my incubator open so wide cause of kerosene lamp, i didn't want it got fire or my eggs got poisoned of CO2

my eggs and thermohyrgo condition now in night with power failure

from the other side of incubator, 3 bulb to provide heat (useless fully now when there are no power) and a cup of water to increase humidity to reach 45-50%.

feel free to comment...

 

[Junkmanme]

Mulia24,

Mortar as used in this manner refers to a muddy mixture, like wet concrete. Baked "clay bricks" (tanah liat = clay ?) are held together with each other with mortar.

If you had a copper pipe that you could run through the incubator and use as a chimney for your kerosene lamp, you could keep the lamp outside the incubator and not need to open the incubator so much.

There are some diagrams of kerosene-heated incubators available on the Internet. Just do a "Google Search" for kerosene-heated incubator. That should give you some ideas.

Thanks for the pictures!

Good Luck!!!
-Junkmanme-

 

[mulia24]

@ junkmanme : thank you for your advice, unfortunately I didn't have copper pipe, i did have metal one and my friend have been advicing the same like you advice me to do and it can't keep temp up after i set it for 2 hours, even temp decrease to 35 deg. so i decided to use just like now like in the picture, i appreciate any advice, thank you so much...