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

[meltel]

It's gonna take me forever to catch up on reading all the posts but hope everyone is doing well. Miss you all-part of me felt good to be back to work and the other part felt useless on desk duty. Mri of the hand & wrist today-I had to lay on my stomach in superman position completely still for almost 2 hours while things were clanging all around me. The tech said nothing major jumped out at her on the image but hands are harder to read than brains????.... I guess we will see Friday. Part of me wants nothing to be wrong but the other part wants to find out whats causing this swelling and pain. I just want to get back to "normal"-whatever that may be for me

Hope everyone's hatching lots of babies and staying healthy. Waiting for dinner to be done for the hubby when he gets home later so I can crash for the night.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@ChickenCanoe

 

[mlm Mike]

Happy Anniversary, Mr and Mrs ChickenCanoe! @ChickenCanoe

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Chicks! The blue one is an orpington I think. It was from the "big" egg. Rest are banty cochins. Roo and hen are like calico colored? Any guesses on the chicks? Sorry they're blurry... It's hard to get pics of 8 fuzzy littles.

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Hey all, Not sure whether this is the right place to ask or not, but I just had an Incubation/Hatching querie.
I'm on Day 21 of my first ever Batch of eggs in a Styrobator that I am borrowing, and I was wondering if it is normal to see a lot of rocking leading up to the hatch? I went into lockdown on day 18, and on day 19 they started to all rock a lot, it's funny because they were all set in a pattern and now they have all managed to move into nearly a straight line.

Anyways

I am just very anxious, as it is my first batch ever, and I don't know whether my humidity levels are good or not because I didn't know you needed a hygrometer (such a noob) All I know is that I need to make sure there is water in the two wells at the bottom of the bator, so I have a pipe that I put in before hand so that I can funnel water in, but I can't be certain. I really hope to hear some peeping and see some pipping soon, though I have heard that it's normal for them to hold on sometimes.

It has been a battle with this incubator to make sure it keeps a good temp. I have a fan but that broke down, so I've been keeping it at 102.5 or so since it's still air.
Thankfully lockdown temperatures have been stable, I put a blanket over it on one side and that's helped a lot.

Thank you so much to all who reply! Fingers crossed they all hatch. They are ISA Brown (F)/ Light Sussex (M)

Josh

Quote: Good Luck!! @Eruedraith
Calibration is a MUST: HOW TO CALIBRATE post #9068

*IMPORTANT INFO= TIMELINES PIPS ZIPS!!! & MARKING AIR CELLS DAY 18, DRAW DOWN, INTERNAL PIP, EXTERNAL PIP, and ZIPPING post #35770

I didn't even think of quarantining it til granny said something.

oh shame on you!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hi all and Night all!!!

 

[mlm Mike]

Hi all and Night all!!!

Hi Sally!

Good night Sally!

 

[mlm Mike]

It's gonna take me forever to catch up on reading all the posts but hope everyone is doing well. Miss you all-part of me felt good to be back to work and the other part felt useless on desk duty. Mri of the hand & wrist today-I had to lay on my stomach in superman position completely still for almost 2 hours while things were clanging all around me. The tech said nothing major jumped out at her on the image but hands are harder to read than brains????.... I guess we will see Friday. Part of me wants nothing to be wrong but the other part wants to find out whats causing this swelling and pain. I just want to get back to "normal"-whatever that may be for me

Hope everyone's hatching lots of babies and staying healthy. Waiting for dinner to be done for the hubby when he gets home later so I can crash for the night.

I hope they find out what is causing you pain.

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Finally got a decent picture of my Oliver Egger roo that I hatched 13 weeks ago. He isn't as big as his hatch mate - the lavender Orpington - but he's starting to fill out.

 

[TJChickens]

Hi all and Night all!!!

Hello and Goodnight Sally! Don't let the bed bugs bite.

 

[mlm Mike]

Goat friends: I banded the little buckling tonight and now he's just laying there crying. The other boys didn't react that way. Does banding affect individuals differently? I caught both for sure... I was worried the band was a little bit low, but my farm friend double checked when she dropped off the keet and said it looks ok. She said to give him baby Tylenol, but I didn't because I've since read that isn't good for them...

I don't know, I never banded. I hope he's ok