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

[BantyChooks]

This thread is slowing down..... don't know if that is good or bad. :/

BAD

 

[ChickaLong]

This thread is slowing down..... don't know if that is good or bad. :/

Yes, I am not skipping as many pages

 

[BantyChooks]

Well it's not always puppies and rainbows here on the farm. We had a disaster in one of our brooder pens. (20) 3wk old chicks dead. Trampled and crushed. Not sure why they huddled so tight to do this. Irrelevant now. Never ever had a mass crushing and been doing this a long time. You always get one or two weak ones maybe but to have 20 still blows my mind. These were replacements to go back into breeding pens. We dug 2 more out of the pile that were alive so we'll see if they make it.

Oh no!!!

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Thermometer calibrated at 32.9... Am I doing this right? Temp on thermometer just went up when I took picture.

That is correct. Personally, I would use twice as much ice so I could nestle the thermometer between the cubes and swirl the water around it every once in awhile. If it settled on 32.9F after 5-10 minutes of that, I'd say it was off +.9F and I'd run my temp so it showed +.9 more than my incubator's target temp. Ex: Target temp=100F, thermometer should read 100.9F... target 99.5F, thermometer should read 100.4F... etc.

 

[Frindizzle]

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[Frindizzle]

Quote: True...

 

[Frindizzle]

That's more like it.

 

[fire370]

That is correct. Personally, I would use twice as much ice so I could nestle the thermometer between the cubes and swirl the water around it every once in awhile. If it settled on 32.9F after 5-10 minutes of that, I'd say it was off +.9F and I'd run my temp so it showed +.9 more than my incubator's target temp. Ex: Target temp=100F, thermometer should read 100.9F... target 99.5F, thermometer should read 100.4F... etc.

Ditto on this.

 

[rIrs roost]

About Parakeets?

Sorry. Guineas (spelling )

 

[BantyChooks]

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