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Have to candle....must candle JUST one I'll JUST candle one&go to bed,maybe.


They need to post a warning (or more) how ADDICTIVE this is
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Blooie said:
Okay, question on the Brinsea Oct 20.....last night I put the 5 eggs from the FI into the Brinsea to finish incubation.  It had 3 other eggs in it.  I had pulled 18 eggs between the 2 incubators for blood rings, clears, etc.  Now I can't seem to get the temps in the Brinsea stable, which wasn't a problem before.  With the removal of 8 dud eggs and the replacement with 5 good eggs, that temp will not go above 96.8, whereas before it held 99.5 steady.  (Two thermometers besides the built in)  Is it the difference in mass?  Is it something I did?  I know I can adjust (making minuscule changes) the dial inside the top, but I hate to do that if patience would see that temp stabilize.  It'll be 24 hours around 9 pm tonight.
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Sorry I fell behind and I see it's been fixed. I was going to say, see if the black cord is stuck in the back between the lid...I've done it too!! :gig

BigWeenMachine said:
I had 6 that were supposed to go into the hatcher but 2 turned out to be quitters.  So I've got 4 in the hatcher now and after coming back from town I found pip number 3 and the entire egg rocking back and forth!  Just waiting on one egg now to pip and I am pretty sure it is the one egg in there that was put in the incubator a day after all the rest so that one should be behind anyways. 

I then have 15 blue/chocolate runner ducks in a Brinsea Octagon incubator.  In my Lyon I currently have ten ancona ducks due in 8 days, 20 blue/chocolate runner duck eggs and 1 blue palm turkey egg from the yard.  So, I guess all together I have 50 eggs in right now.  The runners and anconas were shipped so I do expect more to die or quit on me.  I started with 18 anconas and I've already lost 8.
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50 eggs! All due at different times! Wow, you're brave! Where the heck are you brooding all these messy duck babies? And a pregnant wife! She's going to kill you! ;)

Laurel Meadows said:
We're in Pickaway County, about 45 minutes out from Columbus :)
Aww Congrats!!
Oh you're incubating Calls!!! Love those! I've been wanting ducks but my husband isn't quite on board with that...yet lol.
As far as the Hova still air goes, I've really had good results with it! I'm a stay at home mom so I didn't opt for the auto turner. I hand turn 5x a day. My only issue is that when we've got the wood burning stove going, I get some big fluctuations in temps. During the day my house gets really toasty and the bator can get in the 103-104 range which I try to very carefully dial it down but it rarely helps. Then at night it drops to 99. Then I fight low humidity 25% and that's lower than I like. But it's easy to clean and sanitize between hatches and if I'm not using the wood stove it holds temp pretty well. It's also great as a hatcher :)
My Brinsea doesn't seem to care what the ambient temp is. It holds rock steady and never gets below 30% humidity in the same room as the Hova. The crazy thing is, I only paid $25 for my Brinsea- the Hovabator was $60
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Yes, I was wanting to use the octagon 20 as the incubator and get a still air as a hatcher. I thought the still airs were supposed to be better with humidity? Why are you having issues with it? I'm a stay at home mom too, so I prefer to hand turn 5xday. I actually am not liking the results in the 20 with the cradle. I have better results with the same eggs when I turn them in my brinsea mini, so next batch in the 20 I will try laying them down and hand turning.

BigWeenMachine said:
I'm new to this, but from my experience with the disaster my first hatch went through, I bet you are fine.  Out of 9 eggs that I started with I am down to 4, one of which has already hatched and 2 more that are pipped.  Throughout the first 10 days I had temp fluctuations that ranged from 96-106 degrees thanks to my cruddy FI incubator.  I lost 3 during that crazy period.  I then managed to get a rock solid Lyon Incubator that has held the temp exactly where I set it for almost 3 weeks now and on day 10 I put the remaining 6 eggs in.  Of those 6, two more quit on me a few days ago.  So, all together if the other 3 eggs hatch, I still had a pretty good hatch rate considering how much stress they were subjected to early on. 

Plus, I am now using that FI incubator to hatch cos I don't have room for them anywhere else.  My temp has consistently ran 101-102 in a spot in the incubator that the duckling that hatched was sitting, and then found a cold spot of 94.3 where one of the pipped eggs is sitting, yet they havn't died yet, even though they've been in there for a couple days.  My guess is that you still have a pretty good chance that the egg never even noticed the temp change and will hatch just fine.  Those chicks seem to be a lot tougher than I thought they were thanks to all the scary stuff ya read about happening to them on the internet, lol.
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What is this Lyon incubator you speak of? I've never heard of it....going to Google now!

BigWeenMachine said:
Ruby, you had mentioned that the ice tray might be a bad idea in the bator cos of drowning.  Well, I put a screen around it to keep the duck out of it and sure enough, he is now sitting on top of that screen around the ice tray.  Thanks for the tip cos I bet the lil guy woulda drowned had I not covered it up.

He is really wanting out of there.  He keeps pecking on the walls and he is currently trying to climb the wall from the top of the ice tray.  He is not completely dry though.  Should I give him his wish and let him out to eat and drink or wait til he is all fluffy???  He's now been hatched for over 9 hours.....
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Good, I'm glad! They look for trouble when they hatch, I swear!! Amy convinced me awhile ago that it was safe to move chicks whenever I want. I've done a few small, staggered hatches and I didn't want the chicks knocking the eggs around that were shipped and not due yet and I literally moved them as soon as they hatched. I just kept a blanket over the brooder so there were no drafts and kept it at 100ish and they were fine. Can't wait to see the pics!
 
Laurel Meadows said:
We're in Pickaway County, about 45 minutes out from Columbus :)
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I used to travel from Charleston WV to Toledo a few times a month for business, so I went through there often! Now I'm in Parkersburg WV, so we aren't too far apart.

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I just locked down 7 golden sebrights, 4 OEGBs, and 2 lavender orpingtons! :fl
 
Here he is. I tried to get a good pic of his face to show his beak. You can kinda see the line down his beak in the 2nd pick.










He's already a spoiled rotten lil ducky. I held him for a few minutes when I took him out of the hatcher and now he screams if I put him down. He has to snuggle up against my neck and thats the only way he is quiet, lol. Hope his siblings hatch soon so I can put him down.....
 

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