Humidity Obsessed

[ozexpat]

Another beautiful day is over in the Philippines. I have been welding a trailer for the last couple of days. Tomorrow I will start organizing materials for the coups. I will need 4 as I want the 3 purebreds in separate quarters. I will then need a big one for the mutts. . Walls will be bamboo. Roof will be made out of nipa palm thatch to keep cool. .I will post pics when I am in the city.

 

[3Dchicken]

Another beautiful day is over in the Philippines. I have been welding a trailer for the last couple of days. Tomorrow I will start organizing materials for the coups. I will need 4 as I want the 3 purebreds in separate quarters. I will then need a big one for the mutts. . Walls will be bamboo. Roof will be made out of nipa palm thatch to keep cool. .I will post pics when I am in the city.

Where I am at there are about two or three feet of snow in mounds all over the place. Super jelly of your weather.

 

[thespeedyz]

Temperature & ventilation

 

[nok13]

well today is day 19 so not touching the eggs... will just wait and see..

as for roos, cant do near our apartment/house, its bad enough i have a very very very vocal complaining leghorn (i am bribing my downstairs neghbhors with fresh eggs and promises of compost) no way could i have a rooster. anyhow, husband's lot are half hour away in chicken coop and they are his to mess with... so next i will go for quail eggs i think...

i am fighting the urge to pick an egg up and check it...

 

[3Dchicken]

well today is day 19 so not touching the eggs... will just wait and see..

as for roos, cant do near our apartment/house, its bad enough i have a very very very vocal complaining leghorn (i am bribing my downstairs neghbhors with fresh eggs and promises of compost) no way could i have a rooster. anyhow, husband's lot are half hour away in chicken coop and they are his to mess with... so next i will go for quail eggs i think...

i am fighting the urge to pick an egg up and check it...

It will just look like a dark blob. Nothing spectacular... maybe a pip inside though! Don't do it! I know how it feels!!

 

[ozexpat]

It will just look like a dark blob. Nothing spectacular... maybe a pip inside though! Don't do it! I know how it feels!! 

Hang in there. There will be action soon enough.

 

[3Dchicken]

Yes.

 

[nok13]

day 21 here and gone. not a peep, not a roll, not a chip or a chirp... but i will wait two more days... im sure the eggs developed, as we did see veins and blobs and eyes and stuff, and some seem to have evolved even beyond that. im just afraid that the humidity was way too high int he beginning and temp too low so that the development of the embryos isnt proper so they may just be FTT (failure to thrive)...

we put them in on the 11 th... so this could also be day 22? not sure when the count down starts... either way... will wait two more days. so far no eggs have exploded at least. no bad smells.

where will i find instructions on how to do an eggtopsy?

 

[nok13]

in discussing this whole humidity thing, i mentioned it all to my friend's engineer husband whose line
of work also involves humidity in certain processes we use in our factory on kibbutz; his comment , very pithy, and said under his bushy mustache was: do u think a hen sits all day and checks her humidity? also , do u think a hen can control the relative humidity of the ambient air (air surrounding her)? does she force herself to sweat to provide more humidity under her ? so yeah, i also wonder. how DOES the hen control the humidity around her eggs? in the desert it is dry and in the tropics its always humid so what do hens do if it is internationally know that the humidity has to be a certain amount everywhere around the world, regardless of climate or genetic makeup of the chicken/makes u think no? ?

 

[ozexpat]

in discussing this whole humidity thing, i mentioned it all to my friend's engineer husband whose line
of work also involves humidity in certain processes we use in our factory on kibbutz; his comment , very pithy, and said under his bushy mustache was: do u think a hen sits all day and checks her humidity? also , do u think a hen can control the relative humidity of the ambient air (air surrounding her)? does she force herself to sweat to provide more humidity under her ? so yeah, i also wonder. how DOES the hen control the humidity around her eggs? in the desert it is dry and in the tropics its always humid so what do hens do if it is internationally know that the humidity has to be a certain amount everywhere around the world, regardless of climate or genetic makeup of the chicken/makes u think no? ? 

My heart goes out to you nok. I hope your chicks have hatched.

We obsess over what a hen does so easily. We just dont know their secrets. Modern technology is no match for nature. What we do will never replace a hen, but for me, it allowed me to bring 73 eggs accross the pacific ocean and allows so many others the joy of owning chicken breeds not possible under natural laws.

Hang in there. You will work it out.