Hands on hatching and help

[BYC910]

I can't seem to get the temp to be 101 which is what I wanted without it spiking,so, that's why I've left it at 100 deg. When the electricity went out I put big candles around it and it in a box to try and help with the temp. I take the temp from ontop of the eggs. Yes I callibrared beat I could. And yes, when I saw that it had spiked I took the top off so the heat could escape and let the temp go down a little. I'm really hoping that they're alright! I've tried to follow directions best to my ability. And it's confusing about wash or don't wash there's so much controversy on that!!!

I have washed and hatched very dirty eggs. Large hatcheries sterilize their eggs . It is really up to you but I would wash a dirty egg before I would put it in the incubator . I use the Manna Pro egg wash from TSC and sometimes add a very small amount of bleach just a teaspoon and a teaspoon of peroxide to the mix as well doesn't seem to hurt . Whether it helps or not I don't know for sure . You should check the fit of the top to the bottom of the incubator and make sure the fit is good with no air gaps . You should be able to get the temperature to hold at 101. Air gaps could also affect your humidity .

 

[aliciaplus3]

my 4 fluffy chicks three more pips and 2 that are chIrping inside the shell... yeah!

 

[BYC910]

my 4 fluffy chicks three more pips and 2 that are chIrping inside the shell... yeah!

 

[Tashaf]

I washed with plain water and hoping they would be OK. Because I did not want to take a chance of having a dirty egg to make an infection in the incubator. I was going to candle at 10 days so I did not open incubator too many times. Should I go ahead and candl? Don't I look for veins if it's good and swirls if it's bad?

 

[BYC910]

I washed with plain water and hoping they would be OK. Because I did not want to take a chance of having a dirty egg to make an infection in the incubator. I was going to candle at 10 days so I did not open incubator too many times. Should I go ahead and candl? Don't I look for veins if it's good and swirls if it's bad?

Plain water I think is OK . It depends on how I feel as to when I candle . I sometimes start on the forth day and any day after that I feel like candling . With heat spikes and humidity problems you need to look at them .You want to see veins. The egg will be clear or just look the same as the day you set it . If you candled it before set that is . I candle every egg before set to make sure they are not cracked . this is a seven day egg you can see the veins and how the fluids should look

 

[Tashaf]

How do I put up a picture on here

 

[Tashaf]

This is my incubator, "flock master"

 

[Tashaf]

I mean byc910: that's my incubator. It has 2 different thermometers; one on each side.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

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I have been followin from afar and decided to join in the fun my first time ever hatching and my eggs are on day 19 I have one external pip and another one chirping at me lol

Welcome to the thread!

Developments on the bad buyer. They have been banned. Everything they said wasn't true, I had evidence to back this up that I showed to mods, and so I am in the clear and they are gone. But, they could still keep trying to disparage me in other places, which would be just great.

That's good.

They are sooooo incredibly hard to sex! I got to the point where I don't even try to guess or assume until they are crowing or laying, which is usually around 6 months. I've had girls turn into boys to many times. Also silkie boys seem to do really well together. I have 4 in the same enclosure right now and all is well. If you do end up with all boys or almost all boys let me know and I can always send you more eggs!
:yiipchick That's great!! I did my 7 day candle last night and traced my air cells (which were all firm and perfectly round)! Out of 18 shipped eggs from Florida to NY I have 18 healthy looking embryos! It's just nuts. I was not planning on having a big batch of chicks. Thought maybe 4-6 if I was lucky.
Did you move out of NY?
Good luck on the hatch! This is the exciting part!!
Was this on byc? I'm having an issue now where a customer sent an echeck through PayPal and after I send the eggs the payment was declined. They insisted they are not good on the computer and her daughter was helping her setup up the PayPal and I would get payment right away and now I have not heard back anything from her!

Oh, that sucks.

Ok, so, I've began to incubate my eggs a few days ago. And the electricity went out for about 2hrs and the incubator went down to 89 degrees and then when the electricity came on, it end up hitting 106 degrees and it took a few tries but I finally got it back to 100. I'm hoping it wasn't at 106 too long. Has any one had this happen and still had their eggs hatch? Also, my humidity seems to bounce between 50% and 30%. And I do not open it,so, I don't know why it's bouncing around. It's a still air incubator and holds around 40 eggs and it's filled up!

Personally, if you are incubating standard size eggs, I would run it dry if it holds around 30%, if not I would add a wet sponge to higher the humidity. Much easier to control humidity that way than putting water in the wells. I don't fill wells until lockdown. If the temp goes up, check the water. When it dries and the humidity goes down the temp will go up if you don't have thermostat controlled. Also monitor the air cells to know if the humidity needs adjusting.

I can't seem to get the temp to be 101 which is what I wanted without it spiking,so, that's why I've left it at 100 deg. When the electricity went out I put big candles around it and it in a box to try and help with the temp. I take the temp from ontop of the eggs. Yes I callibrared beat I could. And yes, when I saw that it had spiked I took the top off so the heat could escape and let the temp go down a little. I'm really hoping that they're alright! I've tried to follow directions best to my ability. And it's confusing about wash or don't wash there's so much controversy on that!!!

Much of hatching is confusing because many different things work for many different people and there are many different philosophies.

my 4 fluffy chicks three more pips and 2 that are chIrping inside the shell... yeah!

That's awesome! Congrats!

I washed with plain water and hoping they would be OK. Because I did not want to take a chance of having a dirty egg to make an infection in the incubator. I was going to candle at 10 days so I did not open incubator too many times. Should I go ahead and candl? Don't I look for veins if it's good and swirls if it's bad?

I candle regularly, but especially days 7/14/18. I can usually see the first signs of development in my light/medium colored eggs as early as day 3/4.

This is my incubator, "flock master"

Looks like the LG 9200 series.

 

[Tashaf]

AmyLynn- I have small eggs so should I have more humidity then? The humidity is at40% right now. So, if I wanted to bring my temp up do I add a sponge with a little water?