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

[SilverHair]

morning

 

[Chaos18]

Morning all. looks like one of my white leg horns decided it was time to start laying. Suspect at least two more hens have also with the smaller tan eggs. We will see How the rest of the week goes. Hopefully "RooToo" is keeping them all happy and I will be throwing some in the bator.

Morning. Congrats on the new layers.

Good morning everyone.

Morning Uncle Pen.

morning

Morning

 

[mlm Mike]

Good morning everyone!

Good morning Sally!

 

[Chaos18]

Good morning everyone!

Good morning Sally!

Morning Mike

 

[Pensmaster]

Good morning everyone! 

Good morning Sally! 

Morning Mike.

 

[BantyChooks]

@Pensmaster Yes, I'll be putting shelf liner over any grate that gets installed.

 

[kwhites634]

Morning everyone

Good morning to all you fine people. Hope your day is all you'd like it to be, and more.

 

[Pensmaster]

@Pensmaster
Yes, I'll be putting shelf liner over any grate that gets installed.

Ok.

 

[Chaos18]

Good morning to all you fine people. Hope your day is all you'd like it to be, and more.

Morning whites. Do any good at the pins?

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: I hope the chicks are ok!

What happens when all goes quiet in the brooder box, so cute

Awwwww

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Hello MC!

@BantyChooks only 4/15 eggs made it to lockdown. They were two weeks old at set but only one late death. The other 10 were either clear or blood rings, which seems high for local eggs. I'm going to consider flock nutrition because the girl feeds primarily corn.

I haven't moved them to the hatcher yet because they don't seem ready. AC are pretty small, and still a lot of veins. I'm going to wait for drawdown.

Good luck with the remaining eggs.

Good morning one and all!

Incubator upgrade time

My last few hatches have been extremely wet and icky, and upon looking at the shell leftovers I notice there is an off-colour spot where the egg was touching the ground, which looks like absorbed moisture. There has also been a high rate of slightly open navels, which was a sign of too high humidity if I recall right?
I've had water slosh from the bowls and drip from the papertowels on the sides to the floor, which then makes there be quite a bit of water that some eggs were sitting on- Of course, I had papertowel underneath the shelf liner, but that got waterlogged quickly.
I am wondering if this might be a part of my low lockdown-to-hatch rates, as I lose most of the embryos in that period of time.
This high loss at lockdown (up to 50%) has occurred with eggs from multiple sources- None of them shipped. I know that is "normal" for shipped.

So I've been thinking about an upgrade... A grated platform that would let spilled water fall to the bottom instead of becoming squishy, icky, and possibly harming the eggs to some extent.

I was also thinking about running tubing thru the sides to where I put the bowls of water, which would reduce the # of times I had to open the incubator, which in turn might help hatch rates.

I might be completely wrong; which wouldn't be unusual, but I thought I'd give it a try. It can't hurt and might help....

@Sally Sunshine

@DwayneNLiz I know you had a shelf in yours....

Sounds like a good idea too me.

Morning all. looks like one of my white leg horns decided it was time to start laying. Suspect at least two more hens have also with the smaller tan eggs. We will see How the rest of the week goes. Hopefully "RooToo" is keeping them all happy and I will be throwing some in the bator.

Congratulations!