HERE WE GO AGAIN Anyone SETTING Aug 30th - Sept 8th join me!!

[Hotpoker]

Awesome success!!!! That is completely amazing. You obviously had everything set PERFECTLY. I would love to know what thermometer/hygrometer you used. Would you be able to send me the brand/make e.t.c, coz I'm battling with my thermometers

I second Brookhavens recommendations - I have thermometer and hygros that are very similar.

I also have one of these home brew thermometers which appear to be pretty accurate:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Home-Bre...50864943793?pt=AU_Barware&hash=item2320405ab1

I spent a lot of time fiddling around with thermometers (I had 4 measuring similanteously) and trying to find an accurate one - and also calibrating this against the thermostat.

The trick is to have your thermometers measuring at the same spot at the top, and middle of your eggs. When turning the eggs three times daily I also rotated the location within the incubator to mitigate the effects of hot and cold spots with the incubator - even if it is forced air.

 

[Welshchick]

~Presenting Catdance Chicks~

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COULDN'T HELP MYSELF, TEE HEE



PORCELAIN



BLACK

BLACK OVER SPLASH


BUFF

LAVENDER


PARTRIDGE

THEY ARE JUST TOO ADORABLE! i LOVE THEIR FIRST PHOTOSHOOT, FABULOUS!!!

 

[Welshchick]

Lockdown today for my 3 remaining Lemon Sabelpoot eggs! Hatch day is Tuesday. Have moved my 8 Pekin eggs to another makeshift incubator for 3 days whilst these hatch as lockdown for them will be Saturday 29th!

Congratulation to all the new moms out there who've had successful hatches and comiserations to all who have had losses. It is so hard and upsetting but there's always a next time!

 

[mabhera]

............ sorry!!! When's hatch day for you Mabhera?

my hatch day is sept 28. I just woke up dreaming the eggs were pipping....LOL...

 

[Brookhavens]

I also have one of these home brew thermometers which appear to be pretty accurate:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Home-Bre...50864943793?pt=AU_Barware&hash=item2320405ab1

LOL. I have 2 of these also. Once I bought the scientific thermometers I started using those exclusively. I find them to be more reliable and no mechanical issues to deal with.

 

[Brookhavens]

my hatch day is sept 28. I just woke up dreaming the eggs were pipping....LOL...

I started having hatching nightmares 3 days ago. I normally don't have dreams that I remember but the "hatching" dreams of late have been terrible. They hatch and some horrible looking creature takes them out of the incubator and runs off with them.

 

[picanins]

I found these great thermometers and hygrometers on ebay. When I calibrated the thermometers (you get 10 of them) they were all dead on. The hygrometer I bought can be calibrated and the best part was that the person is from the Tampa area so you get it in a matter of days. 

Thermometers

Hygrometer:

Oh my goodness Brook - You're the BEST!!!! Everything I've read says that the mercury thermometers are still the most accurate. Thank you sooooooo much!!!!

 

[picanins]

Lockdown today for my 3 remaining Lemon Sabelpoot eggs! Hatch day is Tuesday. Have moved my 8 Pekin eggs to another makeshift incubator for 3 days whilst these hatch as lockdown for them will be Saturday 29th!

Congratulation to all the new moms out there who've had successful hatches and comiserations to all who have had losses. It is so hard and upsetting but there's always a next time!
:yiipchick

 

Tuesday is hatch day for me too

 

[Fam project]

Here are my 8 black copper marans and 4 Americaunas.



Here is my #13 hatch. It only unzipped 3/4 by itself... but it kept looking at me and chirping so after 12 hours or so, I unzipped it the rest of the way and it got itself out. So, of course I shouldnt have helped...usually if they cant get out...it is a sign, right? Well, this liitle guy has one leg that splays out to the side. I have a splint on it. It is difficult to make out from the picture, but it is almost like the entire left hip is out of socket. Even when braced, that left side heaves when it tries to move. Are they any other fixes that I can try?

 

[Roxannemc]

I only got 1 outta 6

I got 0 out of 18!!.
Threw them out today... day 23.Discusted.
Just how the chicky crumbles i guess and better luck next time to all.!!

Im on to puppiy birthing ...Well in 8 weeks. BOTH my E. Mastiff girls are in heat.
I didnt know about the one (the MOm of the other) and shes the one been with my male Jackson.... quietly in heat!! .
...,,,Her daughter Sophie is the one I DO want pregnant so hopefully not 2 litters as that could be disasterous in my little house ...........24 BIG puppies possible?in WINTER COLD...? WHEW....NO WAY!
LAST time Mom didnt get pregnant so hope its like that this time or i will be in trouble

So end of the hatching for this year and will do more next year hopefully Feb March .I will see some of you then and be watching the threads even so...too addicted to stop that part and met so many great funny and nice helpful ppl on here..GOOD LUCK to all who are hatching...and have hatched.

And better luck to those (Kel and WRV & others )who didnt have too good of luck,.
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