INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[Scovy Momma]

Poe likes to get in the shower when I'm in there.

Little creeper sits up on the shampoo caddy & jumps into the water.

 

[WVduckchick]

All great ones, Sally...but even in a Brinsea, location, location, location is worthy of mention.  If your incubator is on a tabletop along an exterior wall, the radiant cooling will have an effect.  Turning the incubator tray, or turning the whole incubator front to back every couple of days may help even it out.  But if that's the case, unless you play musical eggs, the eggs in the back will be the eggs less developed.

I did so some musical eggs after I noticed it, but it doesn't seem to be a location issue, because the differences are scattered about. Circulation could be a factor, since they are kinda tight in there, with foam between the rows.
I'm leaning more toward the young pullets. :/

 

[WVduckchick]

Poe likes to get in the shower when I'm in there. Little creeper sits up on the shampoo caddy & jumps into the water.

OhMyGersh that's adorable!!

 

[rIrs roost]

Temps are typical cause, and u ruled that out. So there are many other odd things that could be a factor, but should not be that obvious to the eye, but you have hatched enough to notice...... extended storage, clutch lay day, (dev. stage at oviposition) egg PH and egg characteristics example: porosity, pigmentation and egg size, hens age as suggested, Inbreeding, breed, lighting effects on the egg during incubation (spectra and intensity of lights), and on and on.
EDIT to add: AIR FLOW!
ha !! sure red... I will just keep this one  I am tired of changing it anyways 

It matches the angle that you are Sally.

 

[Scovy Momma]

OhMyGersh that's adorable!!

Right?
She's silly. When I'm in the house I better be carrying her around. I know this because she told me so.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

You should... it's sooooo purrrrrdy!

thank you M'lord Joey is there a flush icon?

you said purrrrdy ha ha ha

My new 11 from 2 diff farms. they had more than 2 roosters on the hens.

oh the love gimmie!!!

Ok thanks. Good things to think about. I'll check my notes and see what I can determine. Lay day is particularly interesting to me. I'll do some research on that!

Thanks dearie!

let me know what you find please, I found it makes a difference when I set my legbar, I never set until they are a week old and I mark my egg boxes as such. I have so much info on that diary thread and links that I cant make sense of since I switched to firefox... I should switch back to chrome just to salvage all of it I guess.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

NOTED

yerrr learned up real fast chicky!!

I like you!

All great ones, Sally...but even in a Brinsea, location, location, location is worthy of mention. If your incubator is on a tabletop along an exterior wall, the radiant cooling will have an effect. Turning the incubator tray, or turning the whole incubator front to back every couple of days may help even it out. But if that's the case, unless you play musical eggs, the eggs in the back will be the eggs less developed.

yeppers walnut! all good points!

 

[bamadude]

I have been using a heat lamp and the thermometer is showing 88-92 depending on where with in the warm area. Should I have it lower? I thought they needed it closer to 95

I would have a warm zone and a cooler zone in whatever you are using as a brooder.
The chicks will let you know how they feel.
If they are bunched up directly under the light: they are cold.
If they are trying to get away from the light: they are hot.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Poe likes to get in the shower when I'm in there.

Little creeper sits up on the shampoo caddy & jumps into the water.

little stinker butt!!!

 

[bamadude]

Skipped a few pages.
It is hard to keep up here