Maybe next year.
Sorry you missed out!I found some BCM chicks from Greenfire's line about two hours away for 7$ a chick this week. They had an old GQF brooder for sale too. I couldn't find the time to make the drive before they sold out.
Very nice!
Glad to hear all the good news and hoping you have stellar hatch rates!Going into the start of day 14 on my two eggs that are a project. Then shortly after those I have the two stagger larger clutches. Those are on days 7 and 3. My temps have been amazing this whole time (knock on wood) and I’ve taken even more precautions after last fiasco and now wipe my candler with an alcohol prep pad before I use it. Let it air dry. Repeat after and store it in in a ziplock. Also limiting my candling hugely so every is candled at the same time and only 3x total. Finished building my separate still air Hatcher. Sprayed it down with bleach solution and let it air dry. It’s all set up and running it til Friday when I lock down the first two to make sure all is stable. I had 3 eggs but one quit. But, as I’ve said some of my eggs are from a new breeding rooster and he’s a bantam amongst standards so it took him some time. As of breakfast yesterday and today he’s figured out the larger ladies because all eggs were fertilized
Thanks! As to your temp drop, I have limited experience, and haven't had great success with my new incubator and shipped eggs. What I have read here, though, is that a drop in temp isn't as critical as the spikes in temp that you and I have both experienced. I had 6 out of 14 make it to lockdown, with only 2 hatch. But they are doing well!I think it's always best to move eggs around, at least to me it makes sense..... there are always cold spots in every incubator it seems. But then again a minor temp change from one end of the spectrum to the other is usually minimal, not enough of a difference from one egg surviving and one dying. With that said, I just had a temp drop in the middle of the night down to 91 degrees....... should I be worried?
