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I am gonna be honest.
I was wondering if anyone else is up? Ugh I can't sleep. Been trying to cut back on caffiene-Thanks folks,thanks is all I'm gonna say.(please don't take that comment as disrespectful at times I can be sarcastic). Two have pipped& I'm scared I'm gonna miss it. I just want them to know I'm here. When I peek at them they just stick their beaks out LiKe "yeah we aren't ready yet"..so I wait.
Plus I keep thinking about this missing women in VA. Its all over the place. Amy's avatar reminds me of her too(no offense Amy I can't help but mention some obvious). And if it's not Amy then I think of Anna on "19Kids and counting" or "counting on" TLC(I think?). If you Google Steve mittendourf VA you will trip over what I'm talking about(lots of links too many to list one). I know byc ain't supposed to "save the world" but I'm reminded of that little kids post on random rambles&etc (it was so hopeful&sweet btw). If we can hunt down breeds of chickens in this crazy world,,,well, I dunno people amaze me when they work
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together.
Sorry I'm rambeling.
Gotta check chicks again...will update hatch status in the morning.
Keep pip'n hatchers.
Night
 
Okay, so I don't know if I have a problem here or not and any help would be great. I weighed this last batch of eggs before I set them to try out the weight method. It is now the beginning of day 24 and I weighed them to see what the weight loss is. There are 3 left in the Lyon bator and 2 seem good with 13.84% loss on one and 11.22% loss on the other while the last one is at 15.67%. Humidity was about 40-45% most of the time. In the Brinsea however, I have one at 10.95%, one at 14.86% and then 4 that I am concerned have lost too much weight at 16.03%, 16.54%, 16.71%, and 16.91% and then one more that i forgot to write the weight down on. Humidity in here was right around 40%. Is this a problem? I was going to put them in lockdown Sunday morning which will be 25.5 days (Runners take 28.5 days to hatch). I hate to mess with the humidity again because I screwed up big time the last time I tinkered with it.

Will those ducks end up hatching just fine if I leave them in there for 2.5 more days? Or maybe I could just pop them in the hatcher on Saturday evening at the end of 25 days and see what happens. These are shipped eggs and I know someone said that it's hard to guage the shipped egg's air sacs to make sure they lose 14% so I guess I dunno what to do here.
 
Ha, that's awesome. I wanna try hatching them sometime. Once I get a lil more experience under my belt of course.... The plan is to get practiced up this year so I can graduate to peacocks next spring when my hens start laying. Maybe Call ducks the next spring.
 
RavynFallen said:
Wish I could help, BigWeenMachine, but I've never used the egg weight system... I've only monitored air cell growth...
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Well shoot. I guess I'm gonna ride it out. The last batch had well over a dozen that I think drowned. Not sure if it was because the air sac didn't get big enough or if the bacteria slowed the growth to keep em from developing to a big enough duckling to be able to get out. Either way, maybe it'll be better to get the air sacs a little bigger than last time.

Maybe the eggs in the Brinsea are closer to hatching too. My temp was around 99.8 degrees in there. I didn't wanna mess with it to get it closer to 99.5 cos it was so touchy so I just let it ride at that. Maybe they'll just hatch a day or two early which makes me happier than waiting til day 32 and having to worry all that time.
 
pipAchick said:
I am gonna be honest.
I was wondering if anyone else is up? Ugh I can't sleep. Been trying to cut back on caffiene-Thanks folks,thanks is all I'm gonna say.(please don't take that comment as disrespectful at times I can be sarcastic). Two have pipped& I'm scared I'm gonna miss it. I just want them to know I'm here. When I peek at them they just stick their beaks out LiKe "yeah we aren't ready yet"..so I wait.
Plus I keep thinking about this missing women in VA. Its all over the place. Amy's avatar reminds me of her too(no offense Amy I can't help but mention some obvious). And if it's not Amy then I think of Anna on "19Kids and counting" or "counting on" TLC(I think?). If you Google Steve mittendourf VA you will trip over what I'm talking about(lots of links too many to list one). I know byc ain't supposed to "save the world" but I'm reminded of that little kids post on random rambles&etc (it was so hopeful&sweet btw). If we can hunt down breeds of chickens in this crazy world,,,well, I dunno people amaze me when they work
2764.png
together.
Sorry I'm rambeling.
Gotta check chicks again...will update hatch status in the morning.
Keep pip'n hatchers.
Night
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Looked that up. Hate to be a Debbie Downer but she doesn't have a very good chance of showing up alive. It disgusts me at how sick some people can be to do some of the horrible things that are done to their victims. I read that her husband is a police officer. Not to throw accusations at the poor guy, but a cop would certainly know a few tricks to hide a body and get away with murder. The vast majority of these cases involve the spouse or partner. Hopefully she will turn up.
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