Harris Farms Nurture Right 360 Incubator is AMAZING!

[Willow2253]

I pulled the B plug out and that’s helping. It’s stabilized at about 5% lower than it was before. It also should be drying out here after today. It’s usually pretty arid, but it’s been raining tons for the last week. Luckily the forecast has no more after today.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I pulled the B plug out and that’s helping. It’s stabilized at about 5% lower than it was before. It also should be drying out here after today. It’s usually pretty arid, but it’s been raining tons for the last week. Luckily the forecast has no more after today.

I noticed mine being very sensitive to the ambient humidity in my house and I learned to adjust accordingly. With windows open or no AC because it wasn't blazing hot out, it stays around 53 to 55% in my house.
When the central AC is going it acts as a dehumidifier and brings down the house to 45%, thus the bator comes down a little too.

 

[Willow2253]

I’ve noticed mine does go down a little when we have windows open, but otherwise it’s been pretty consistent.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I bit the bullet and ordered some eggs. They are due some time next week.

Since we have a flat turner, setting the eggs upright in the turner with it off for however many days doesn't really work. Obviously I haven't seen the air cells on the incoming eggs yet, but I'd like to know ahead of time what to look for and/or what to do with these eggs.

If all looks good (maybe I need to bake cookies for the shipping gods) when they arrive should I plan for a typical hatching on the sides using the turner? If they look good do you guys still do them upright?

What if they are disaster? Any luck keeping them upright and hand turning in the 360?

 

[EarlJ]

You can take the turner out and keep them in an egg carton, tipped up on one end or the other to simulate turning.

The ones I've gotten shipped looked normal, but I was reading a post the other day, let me see if I can find it...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-sunshine-shipped-eggs.1137467/#post-17631705

Lots of good info there.

 

[CrisAnderson27]

Well, a day early!

Six healthy BBS Ameraucana (4x blue, 1x black, 1x splash), and one Self Blue Ameraucana (black split) I'm a bit worried about. Poor thing is stargazing, and has one foot that stays curled. I've given B Complex, and Sav-a-Chick. Tomorrow I'll get some Nutri Drench. I'm figuring I'll have to somehow immobilize the foot in a healthy position...and trust the Nutri Drench to fix the rest.

Hopefully the remaining seven hatch as scheduled tomorrow, on day 21.

On a more positive front, lil guy/girl having trouble made me have to get creative with my brooder. I'm using plates in my outside 8x8 brooder coop, and the heat pad setup I had wanted to use was shot down by a faulty pad. I needed something to create a semblance of darkness so the chick would sleep as much as possible.

Soooo I took a page from aart's heat pad write up, and used an oven rack as a frame. I then wrapped it in a black shirt, and laid it over my heat lamp frame to create a heated shelter.

I now have seven dead silent sleeping chicks.

/WIN!

 

[EarlJ]

Lol, giving a troubled chick the shirt off your back.

 

[CrisAnderson27]

Lol, giving a troubled chick the shirt off your back.

Literally!!!!

 

[SnapdragonQ]

@CrisAnderson27
Here's an article on the foot. If I ever have to do this I plan to use painter's tape so it will come off easier.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...s-with-tape-picture-tutorial-and-video.75247/

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Good thinking on the darkness! My last little chick was having some troubles...it would push upward like they do into their mom's underside and topple itself. Not flip, but was not quite right either and needed something on it's back to calm it and help it sleep.
I had a temp drying box set and would removed the rowdy fresh hatchlings as they hatched to finish drying so I put the last little chick in it and covered it was a small soft washcloth for some pressure on it and that helped sooth it and stop the pushing up behavior.
Maybe it can help the flipping?

Thanks for the videos. Adorable babies and interesting idea leaving the turner in to stabilize the other eggs. I had lost one in my hatch when it was smashed into mid-zip. Beautiful blue chick too. After that I started grabbing the wet chicks and putting them into a dish to flail about still in the bator, or into the temp drying box until thay had theor legs under them enough for the brooder.