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

[daxigait]

that is a beautiful horse. Her hair reminds me of fire with the way the sun's hitting it.

Thanks, he was about eighteen months old in that photo.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@ChickenCanoe Glass art in a botanical garden I thought you might enjoy.
Hey @Sally Sunshine here is another butt for your but posts. I love it, but I am a horse person. This is Paz.

pretty garden
Handsome pony

Liz, I went with these. The only thing Walmart had that was cheap enough and DH and I both liked.



One back came out fine, but on the second one she yanked and it bled a lot. It looked like she had gauges.

I need to make sure we keep it clean so it heals correctly this time.

those look good, good luck on the healing, use cotton balls soaked in epsom salt water to help it heal

That's my only option?

I had to cull one who had hatched too early and after it absorbed its yolk I discovered it's insides were on its outside... Just checked the other 6 eggs left and 2 pip'd internally in the middle of the egg (drowned), and one made it to the aircell, but if it was when the wrecking ball chick was running around then may have been rolled then drowned, or just didn't make it past that point... 2 others died sometime after lockdown, but before hatch day (there was a temp spike right before first pip) and one was an exploding egg if I let it...(caught it before it popped and promptly put in a plastic bag lol)... First hatch wasn't as good as I thought

Also learned the incubator I got is a pain to clean after...but so happy that smell is gone...think it was the dead eggs...(posted on the smell too)

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Morning Sally.

mornin ma sweet campin!!!
Whatcha got going this lovely day? wonder how much a one way ticket to your place is?

Quote: so if SIL is coming, you have more time for just you right?

@ChickenCanoe Glass art in a botanical garden I thought you might enjoy.
Hey @Sally Sunshine here is another butt for your but posts. I love it, but I am a horse person. This is Paz.

oh Dax how lovely! love the sun where your at, always has such nice colors on your critters!!

I took a serama butt, small but still cute lol

 

[Sally Sunshine]

chaos has to be blue swedish

 

[kajira]

That's my only option?

I had to cull one who had hatched too early and after it absorbed its yolk I discovered it's insides were on its outside... Just checked the other 6 eggs left and 2 pip'd internally in the middle of the egg (drowned), and one made it to the aircell, but if it was when the wrecking ball chick was running around then may have been rolled then drowned, or just didn't make it past that point... 2 others died sometime after lockdown, but before hatch day (there was a temp spike right before first pip) and one was an exploding egg if I let it...(caught it before it popped and promptly put in a plastic bag lol)... First hatch wasn't as good as I thought

Also learned the incubator I got is a pain to clean after...but so happy that smell is gone...think it was the dead eggs...(posted on the smell too)

Sorry to hear your first experience was bad.

I only got 1 surviving hatchling out of the 6 eggs I put in there. 4 I don't think ever developed, and of the two we had viable, one died right around hatching time in shell. It was fully formed/developed, but my husband said it never made it to the air cell so I don't know if it drowned, or died or was malpositioned, or what.

But, considering 2 eggs seemed viable and developed, and 1 hatched... I'll take it.

I'm trying a batch of silkie eggs in there now, so we'll see what happens.

I like the little tiny incubator, but we've had interest in her "easter egger" chickens, so if we have a local market for them, we may need to hatch more on a larger scale to sell some of the babies, which will require a larger incubator. They should start laying around Christmas, which means batches of eggs in time for spring.

 

[Chaos18]

chaos has to be blue swedish

But they've got white wings and the color doesn't go all the way around there necks like that.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

But they've got white wings and the color doesn't go all the way around there necks like that.

does the person have swedes too?

 

[Chaos18]

does the person have swedes too?

No clue

 

[kwhites634]

Good morning everyone!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Liz, I went with these. The only thing Walmart had that was cheap enough and DH and I both liked.



One back came out fine, but on the second one she yanked and it bled a lot. It looked like she had gauges.

I need to make sure we keep it clean so it heals correctly this time.

pretty and good luck!

Quote: what did the air cells look like at lockdown?

are you sure you were calibrated and that humidity was not too high during incubation. What were you running at typically?


see if these help at all from our notes section ......

Humidity is NOT a set number!

It is a tool to get the correct weight loss in the egg! post #7068

A MUST READ***** INCUBATION QUESTIONS w/answers post #85688