Harris Farms Nurture Right 360 Incubator is AMAZING!

[aart]

You don't really get a 'weld'. Different types of plastic don't always melt together. It's more of a mechanical connection (like making a knife handle). I've considered making a pair of pliers I could heat and use like a rivet setup, to melt over the heads of the dowel...but haven't gotten around to it.

Still gotta make the stud stick.
Diff plastics is a huge issue, with heat or solvent(glue).
I've screwed up many a plastic thing with the wrong glue....
.....would not risk it on an expensive brooder base.
Mighty tempting tho!

 

[EarlJ]

Once I had it out of the shell, I could see that it's beak was positioned right against the skin above it's hip. It made the pip pushing against it's own skin. It's beak just had nowhere to go. It was a decent size and the yolk had been absorbed, too. Poor little thing.

3 and 4 hatched, but 4 is a small and weak thing and the others went after it, pulling at it's toes and wings. I was planning on leaving the guineas in until they'd all hatched, but I had to take the bigger 3 out.

There's the sad, abused 4th, and the 5th egg's current state of... I don't know if you'd call that zipping. They all knocked some big chunks of shell off, but they all ended up splitting them to get out. I haven't seen that kind of concentration in one area before.

 

[EarlJ]

Luckily(?), #5 turned out to be kinda feeble too, so 4 & 5 are keeping each other company.

They're looking a lot better after a few hours. Hoping they'll be able to join the other 3 tomorrow or the next day.

Chicken eggs started pipping, now it's just luck of the draw to see if they're pure GLWs, or GLW mixes. The eggs all came from a nest I only ever see a Wyandotte on, but chickens are full of surprises.


What were you hatching, @Willow2253?
That yellow with the bit of dark on the head reminds me of the BO x GLW we hatched a few weeks ago.

 

[Willow2253]

They’re barnyard mix. The person I got them from said their flock was a mix of americana, cream legbars, leghorns, French black copper marans, and blue laced red wyandottes, so it very well could be a Wyandotte mix.

 

[Willow2253]

Here’s a pic of the other 4 that are out. There are still 4 more eggs in the incubator. Technically everyone so far has hatched a little early, day 21 doesn’t officially start for another hour.

 

[CrisAnderson27]

Still gotta make the stud stick.
Diff plastics is a huge issue, with heat or solvent(glue).
I've screwed up many a plastic thing with the wrong glue....
.....would not risk it on an expensive brooder base.
Mighty tempting tho!

We'll see how it goes. Worst case I put tape over whatever holes are there and it's a non-issue performance wise .

 

[SnapdragonQ]

So, remember those two eggs I put upright? It's almost day seven (9:00am tomorrow) so while it was dark tonight I gave everyone a real candling and marked air cells. The special Biele upright egg looks not to have any development at all and the air cell is still a mess. I left it and put it on it's side just in case I can't see into the egg very well since it's dark like a Welsummer.

The blue egg test egg also was put on it's side. It has development at the top but I can't tell if it's adhered up there or not. It doesn't move nearly as freely as the rest of the eggs, but logic says it would not yet anyway. I'll recheck it tomorrow. Could be that twisting 5 to 7 times a day was not the right thing to do/not enough movement. Thankfully it's a test egg from my own flock.

The others have development and some I saw movement in. Another Biele egg is puzzling though and looks a little scrambled. It was almost as saddled as the worst egg but looked better yesterday with defined development.

I'll weigh them all tomorrow (maybe) then see if I can keep my hands off.

 

[aart]

Could be that twisting 5 to 7 times a day was not the right thing to do/not enough movement.

Yeah, rotating the egg while it sits upright is not going to have the same effect as turning.
Had this with a detached cell, it started developing but stuck near 'top' it quit about half way thru.

 

[ronkonkoma]

I’ve used it a few times now. In the winter time at one point I had a lot of trouble keeping the humidity stable and only had 1 chick hatch. I decided to try dry hatching like a lot of my friends are doing. I’ve had much more success with that. I am currently incubating eggs, and it is so incredibly humid here. Without any water ever, my humidity is hovering between 65 and 70. Now that’s not exactly where I would want it throughout the entire incubation process, but I don’t have air-conditioning, and I tried a dehumidifier in the room, but it’s not working Enough to make a difference. I figure hens outside probably are dealing with the same issue, so I’m hopeful I’ll have some hatch.

I agree with you, the one biggest con I would say is the top is awkward to pick up when your candling. I think it would’ve been very easy for the company to put a handle on top. Maybe they’ll do that in future models.

 

[CrisAnderson27]

I’ve used it a few times now. In the winter time at one point I had a lot of trouble keeping the humidity stable and only had 1 chick hatch. I decided to try dry hatching like a lot of my friends are doing. I’ve had much more success with that. I am currently incubating eggs, and it is so incredibly humid here. Without any water ever, my humidity is hovering between 65 and 70. Now that’s not exactly where I would want it throughout the entire incubation process, but I don’t have air-conditioning, and I tried a dehumidifier in the room, but it’s not working Enough to make a difference. I figure hens outside probably are dealing with the same issue, so I’m hopeful I’ll have some hatch.

I agree with you, the one biggest con I would say is the top is awkward to pick up when your candling. I think it would’ve been very easy for the company to put a handle on top. Maybe they’ll do that in future models.

Right? One would think that the fact so many almost drop the tops on their eggs would make a handle a no brainer, lol.