Meaola
Chirping
- Apr 17, 2015
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I just love BYC. I searched and read this site for a few weeks before purchasing my incubators and putting my eggs in a little over a week ago. I have found many great tips and appreciate all of the honest experiences!
I have 7 shipped Midget White turkeys in, 8 ringneck pheasant, and some of our Black Star's eggs in one bator. Then 17 shipped Dorking eggs in bator #2 with some of our eggs. I have 2 LG 9300's...one with a fan kit ans one still air. As expected from reading about the experiences with them here...I went through quite the journey getting the temps right. I spent at east a week on each one before putting in any eggs. The thermometers I went with were the cheapies from walmart for the fishtanks and the digital hygrometer/thermometer with the probe. I even bought an ear thermometer to spot check egg-shell temp (but haven' t).used it yet.
I did break down and candle the pheasants at 5 days and it loos like all but 2 were developing. (left the others in) Most of our eggs are developing. It was early, but I decided to candle the turkey's at 7 days (the eggs are staggered so they can all go into lockdown together...didnt see much, but one egg had a moving air sac still (from shipping)
. I will candle them again about day 10 or 11.
I learned a lot here. Let my shipped eggs settle for a little over 24 hrs and did not turn them for 3 days. (The Dorks just went in yesterday)
I am sure I will have questions and will love to share the journey. I will appreciate all the advice I can get..
Ann
I have 7 shipped Midget White turkeys in, 8 ringneck pheasant, and some of our Black Star's eggs in one bator. Then 17 shipped Dorking eggs in bator #2 with some of our eggs. I have 2 LG 9300's...one with a fan kit ans one still air. As expected from reading about the experiences with them here...I went through quite the journey getting the temps right. I spent at east a week on each one before putting in any eggs. The thermometers I went with were the cheapies from walmart for the fishtanks and the digital hygrometer/thermometer with the probe. I even bought an ear thermometer to spot check egg-shell temp (but haven' t).used it yet.
I did break down and candle the pheasants at 5 days and it loos like all but 2 were developing. (left the others in) Most of our eggs are developing. It was early, but I decided to candle the turkey's at 7 days (the eggs are staggered so they can all go into lockdown together...didnt see much, but one egg had a moving air sac still (from shipping)
. I will candle them again about day 10 or 11.I learned a lot here. Let my shipped eggs settle for a little over 24 hrs and did not turn them for 3 days. (The Dorks just went in yesterday)
I am sure I will have questions and will love to share the journey. I will appreciate all the advice I can get..
Ann
) I love your avatar. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have. We are here to help in any way we can. Good luck with your hatch.
and Welcome To BYC! Good luck with your hatches!
