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

[gimmie birdies]

These are the same "power outage" incubator eggs. 2 pips, and a black one hatching and the brown is the rescue chick from earlier, put in incubator to encourage the hatch. the little black one was supposed to hatch tomorrow. 7 so far...in my staggered hatch.

 

[ambe0487]

I've done that already.

you have a still air incubator... Which means you need to measure the temp a the top of the eggs without touching them. That temp should be at 102 degrees per the article at the beginning and through out the post.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Ok

 

[perchie.girl]

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I actually give them a whole flake of Alfalfa to disassemble... they only eat the leaves but have a blast tearing it apart.
and green here is a very very very short season. So they get alfalfa shared from the goats.

deb

 

[ambe0487]

These are the same "power outage" incubator eggs. 2 pips, and a black one hatching and the brown is the rescue chick from earlier, put in incubator to encourage the hatch. the little black one was supposed to hatch tomorrow. 7 so far...in my staggered hatch.

Babies!!!!!e

 

[nuklee0]

What's so great about them? They only hold 24 eggs..

This is my first incubator and 2nd hatch only but after reading many others' horror stories about extreme fluctuating temps or the length of time it takes to restabilize, these are things I rarely or have never had to deal with on this machine... So I feel it's a pretty good machine and would totally recommend it... Also another note, I have 7/7 pips for the first batch of my staggered hatch! Here's hoping they all make it out ok.

Edited to add: oh yeah, and limit of 24 is also good to prevent too much chicken math! At least that's why I chose this one.

 

[Cynthia12]

I actually give them a whole flake of Alfalfa to disassemble... they only eat the leaves but have a blast tearing it apart.
and green here is a very very very short season. So they get alfalfa shared from the goats.

deb

This is also a great idea! Thanks for all of thoughts. We can get Alfalfa here anytime too.

 

[Cynthia12]

Babies!!!!!

 

[Cynthia12]

Got my eggs ready for lock down. While I was drawing the line, saw something for the first time since I started hatching yrs. ago! The head and the beak! Soo cute, got one with a couple of toes showing too, they look fluffy. They should be! Click on the photos to see it better, that little one even open and closed it's beak while I was watching. Pretty cool for me, being a first.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Pretty...

My chick is out- green egg below grey chick is zipping too

the 3 other RIR were fridge eggs, so they are Tuesday hatchers I bet.