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

[chicken hawk 33]

Good luck! Lockdown is the most stressful part for me, but also the most exciting. I have a batch of swedish flower hens and salmon favorelles going into lockdown on Christmas. Hope you get a nice turn out!

you too

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

is this what I need

Yep!!!

 

[rossfam06]

who's is sc

He has been on here a few times......really redneck and likes to smack people. Lol!!! . @scflock

 

[Sally Sunshine]

All our ground is worked for the time being. Just watching the wheat grow and getting ready to pasture on it.

No they dont! There is at least 1.2 bilion Indians and 1.5 bilion Chinese that are less closer than me!

Whatever

this is not an acceptable post, it means nothing this "whatever"

@Sally Sunshine I was reading through the helpful links compilation that you have taken off this thread. The one thing I did not see was incubation times of the different eggs and how to compute the hatch day. For instance, not all ducks are created equal. There are different beliefs on what is actually day 1 so I thought maybe we could discuss what everybody thinks. So I will start off.

Let's say you set your eggs at 7am on Jan 1st. Is day 1 Jan 1st or Jan 2nd.

What if you set them at 7pm on Jan 1st?

I fly hard and fast on hatching and I'm probably not the best to ask to follow all the rules but I know how incubation works at my place. I will interject my thoughts here in a bit.

I write a color coded #7,14 and #18 on a calendar

and no other dates. I candle and lock them down, when they hatch they hatch. I do understand the predicament new hatchers get in with the worry about timing but seriously, I already know my times I need to have hatched to get my chicks in the mail, day 21 chicks get sent out. I would hope everyone knows how long their breeds incubate for, or should at least know to check into that, there is a chart in the incubation article. I actually crack a smile when I see someone counting down hours to hatch, what are they going to do if they dont hatch the second they think they should? I think I ran too many eggs through the cabinets. therefor, I should also say that I dont really follow the rules anymore either. I dont even write a set time even as simple as am or pm anymore.

you set eggs they should hatch within 21 days thereafter for standard chickens.

if your off, your temps are a tad too high, low or something is wrong.

Not currently incubating. Had issues with the last go at it, trying to get things worked out for the next go.

Ambient humidity was high, and still is. Have an LG 9300, plan is to build or buy another incubator and use it as a hatcher. Considering an ARKSEN from Amazon, know there are some issues with those, most of which can be solved with adding insulation though.

I only had one vent plug removed for most of the time. Tried opening the other one and it just made the humidity level go up. I did not do a calibration check on the built in hygrometer nor on the one I bought. The built in digital one never read below 41%. If I placed the dial gauge one near that sensor it read close to the same as the display. When I moved it closer to the open vent it was reading anywhere from 5-10 higher. Also the open vent was the one nearest the heating element.

Your saying you didnt calibrate the new hygro? I would calibrate it.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

what did I do

I'm not a brat

you didnt message me or even hint you ordered that! and when I try to discuss you play dumb. and your not! so yes, your a brattttt

 

[chicken hawk 33]

you didnt message me or even hint you ordered that!  and when I try to discuss you play dumb.  and your not!  so yes, your a brattttt

I'm,not what you want to know.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I'm,not what you want to know.

You didn't tell Ms. Sally you were getting a new thermostat control. That's what she's fussing about, CH.

 

[Eliza1313]

I don't think I can actually calibrate the hygrometer I bought, just test it.

I was flying by the seat of my pants with this go around. The plan had been to shove the eggs under a broody, didn't work out that way.

I was comparing the air cell size to pictures of candled eggs, for both the chickens and the ducks. The air cells were smaller on my eggs. I finally did try adding rice in small bowls, and that is when I was getting the 41% reading on the built in, before it had been staying at 48% or higher. However I think adding the rice only a week before hatch was the main cause for my hatch problems. The air cells did look to be the right size at the point that they were all deceased. Except on the damaged egg, that one was huge.

I learned the hard way this go around and have been kicking myself in the butt for it. Definitely will be testing gauges before the next go. Will be testing the heating element too, I think it might be on the fritz. Plan on getting fan kit for it (does anyone know if the kit for the 9300 is just a fan or is it a combo fan/heater that replaces the original heater?) Also will be weighing eggs before they go in.

Other question, is it ok to hatch eggs that are laid while you are deworming them?

 

[Eliza1313]

Need to get feed together to get birds fed and in their coops. Will be back later.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

You didn't tell Ms. Sally you were getting a new thermostat control. That's what she's fussing about, CH. 

I,did.I just asked what she wants to know