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

[Kiki]

Sally, come back!

How are your girls?

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I've read through most of these topics (I'm autistic and slightly OCD - so by the time I posted here, I've sort of already read through a *lot* of information, but wanted to make sure I understood what I read? I'm at the "talking through stage" of education.... lol that's how I learn... read, clarify, "action" - if that makes sense!)

So, to be clear, am I answering the questions in your above post, or re-reading all the information, and then asking questions if I have any later?

read the info then ask questions for things you dont understand or if any just happen to come up, i ask a tone of stupid questions lol
so ask as many questions as you want

guess no one wants to chat and take my mind off ma worries today....

I DO!!!

Makes sense, thanks. I just want to make sure it's okay for me to "talk" through the stuff i've learned; on this thread too - in order to organize it, so I can actually apply what I read. I don't want to bother anyone by asking questions, or clarifying information. I just need to "paint a picture" with all the information I've read, like putting puzzle pieces together, in order to apply the data I accumulated. (I see in pictures, so until the picture is fully formed, I'm sort of left scratching my head, I promise I'm not as dumb as I seem! I just have a unique learning style haha)

As to the turning - 3x works best for us, because breakfast/lunch/dinner is easy to make sure they get turned the right amount of times to be even over night - with 4 kids, I can't guarantee, i'll have the ability, especially if I run errands in any given day, and our potential trips out of town for the day that I can do more than 3 in a 24 hour period. (we've never been gone over night, and I can justify waking up in the middle of the night to compensate for missing an egg-turning during the daytime.)

I am still figuring out how you do eggs in an incubator if you're gone for a day. Do you have suggestions on that? Does it matter WHEN you turn them if it's at least 3-5x in a 24 hour period? or, if I did 5x on a day that I'm here, would managing 3x in a 24 hour period be acceptable? My 2 year old has doctors appointments and it's 6+ hours of driving, plus the length of the doctors apt. He's a previous 24-weeker, so we see a lot of specialists still.

I'm trying to figure out how to manage the turning thing at this point, more than the other stuff. We also have 40-80% humidity in our area, and getting the humidity lower until the end, will be a struggle/key thing too. (though someone recommended rice in a sock, so I may try that.)

if you do it 3x a day it *should be ok, but make sure like you said that the longest time point is staggered, so you already knew that

 

[kajira]

guess no one wants to chat and take my mind off ma worries today....

What kind of worries?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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Sally, I've got three pullets from your eggs. Any suggestions on which roo (if any) to keep?

EAT them all!!!! you have too many chickens!!

 

[Pensmaster]

@DwayneNLiz

Liz. That's a trap I've purchased a few years back. Before those I used the bucket. Just set another one at the coop.

 

[Leave a LightOn]

How are your girls?

Growing like crazy. Rambunctious teens. Not my cute babies anymore!

How are yours? Cute as ever?

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@DwayneNLiz

Liz. That's a trap I've purchased a few years back. Before those I used the bucket. Just set another one at the coop.

its a neat looking trap

 

[Kiki]

Growing like crazy. Rambunctious teens. Not my cute babies anymore!

How are yours? Cute as ever?

Still cute....getting their feathers in..starting to think they can actually get of the ground..but can't just yet!
Flapping wings...yeah there are still cute.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

campin they look like drowned rats too right now, dang woman. when is the rain stoppin?

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@Sally Sunshine