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

[Sally Sunshine]

Hi!!! I am new to all this and just put my first dozen in the incubator. Its running at 40% humidity and 99.5 F. The eggs were from a local gal that collected them for me and they are 3 days old at the most.. I weighed them and marked the air cells. They were kind of dirty but I put them in anyway. The air cells are all about the size of a dime but I had one Marans egg that I couldn't detect the air cell.

I decided to incubate eggs after having a few chicks starve out after receiving them in the mail. I have 9 chics now but I couldn't see ordering a minimum of 25 so here I go!

Hopefully I can be successful with my first hatch. I am using a hovibator with the #3 water trough filled. Running it dry it was only at 15%.

Wish me luck and pour on the advice.

Welcome @2FunKids

sounds like you did your homework! you have your thermo/hygros calibrated and all that? sounds like your set, 40% sounds a tad high to me I would run around 30-35% if your calibrated. no lower than 99.5% I like to run at 100 degree... Glad your with us!! what kinda flock do you have now?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Yes I am feeling better. Pain went away before church this morning.

good news Billy

hope you keep feelin good

Question.......I have a cabinet incubator and separate hatcher. Why are some of the babies drying inside the eggs? I am having to rescue them and peeling them out of the egg. I lost one thinking it would get out, but it suffocated from being stuck too long (I think). The humidity is steady at about 65 to 68%. Any suggestions?

do they have like the yellow jelly on them? stuck like glue? that means too high humidity and now at lockdown they hit air and get stuck like. what did your air cells look like?

 

[rIrs roost]

Welcome @2FunKids
sounds like you did your homework! you have your thermo/hygros calibrated and all that? sounds like your set, 40% sounds a tad high to me I would run around 30-35% if your calibrated.  no lower than 99.5% I like to run at 100 degree...  Glad your with us!!  what kinda flock do you have now?

Yelp. Sally and the others can teach you a lot about hatching. If you ever decide you want to blow em up, then I'm your man.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

gotta run

 

[kwhites634]

To all you Cowboy fans out there......

Go PACK!!!

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Yelp. Sally and the others can teach you a lot about hatching. If you ever decide you want to blow em up, then I'm your man.

Good'un!!!

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Welcome @2FunKids

sounds like you did your homework! you have your thermo/hygros calibrated and all that? sounds like your set, 40% sounds a tad high to me I would run around 30-35% if your calibrated. no lower than 99.5% I like to run at 100 degree... Glad your with us!! what kinda flock do you have now?

Psst... don't tell Sally, but I ran my humidity at 45-50% on my last batch... and doing it again on this batch. Just between us, right? Thanks!

 

[Intothebuff]

The inner membrane (for lack of a better phrase) shrink wrapped them in. The air cells were all good. I did open the hatcher for 3 chicks that hatched on day 19. It was only to pull them out on day 21 to feed them. They hatched earlier then I planned. It is now day 22 and I have 7 left to hatch. No pipping yet (as of this morning, but I am now t home) but they all showed signs of life at lockdown.

 

[Intothebuff]

do they have like the yellow jelly on them? stuck like glue?  that means too high humidity and now at lockdown they hit air and get stuck like. what did your air cells look like?
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I replied to this but forgot to quote it lol. Sorry still figuring things out.

 

[Laurel Meadows]

Oh no.  Just got news that another friend passed away.  Was I just talking about getting older?    I'm losing so many friends that are close to my age.  This friend was a good 8 yrs. older though.  She went fast, Aneurysm. 
Another funeral to go to before a Holiday. 

So sorry about your friend, Cynthia