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

[daxigait]

My heated watering dishes with heat lamps aimed on them...froze...:/

try those pads you heat in the microwave. I heat one and put it under a quart waterer on a solid concrete block and the water will stay thawed all day below freezing. We have only really been in the teens this year, but if I can put it under the water at 5 in the morning and come home at 9 P.M. it should work for those with better hours.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I have never had my heated water dish freeze and it gets down to that cold. It is outside on the outside of rabbit hutches and I have 4 of them off the ground. We get lots of wind around here but it is out of the wind. I really like the tote idea. If a person has to use a lamp and a heated water dish then an other idea is to use a 250 watt birdbath disk heater. I had -45 below temps and the tub never froze. The chickens of course didnt go out to drink from it either that week. 

Really good idea with blocking the wind using the tote...

they are inside the shed with the ducks....like I said just a skim ice. Only one froze too......the other didn't. But who knows really how cold it gets...they call where I live(the interior) the bad lands for a reason.
But for as cold as it was last night to just get a skim is not bad. It was the first night that happened. Sucks seam to be doing just fine. I made igloos out of straw balls they all huddle inside them. This is my first winter with DUCKS so I'm learning.

 

[BullChick]

@ChickenCanoe Years ago, stores used to donate the food from the hot counter in the deli to The Salvation Army. They had to stop because "the powers that be" decided it was a legal risk. The rotisserie chickens alone make it heartbreaking.
The Salvation Army was able to get their lawyers with some different store lawyers to sign papers absolving the store of any legal responsibility.

 

[kwhites634]

I thought I heard that it is 1/3 of all food we produce.
Must be a better way.

Must be a good one. My heated dog water dish can barely hold in the upper 20s. It's junk.

Sure there's a better way. McDonalds and all their clones can quit making up everything ahead of time & keeping it under heat lamps 'til it's sold.

 

[chicknlove]

but if you sell the extras you can buy more eggs

Yep! That's exactly my motivation

 

[Saris]

Omg,omg,eleven baby's this morning.

Yay!

Yay!

Well we had a traumatizing morning. My niece spent the night with us and woke up early to go check on the chicks and one hadn't made it. A lot of tears this morning.
One a better note there is this one

Sad!, but yay for one!

Good Morning Sally!

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Click the link in your email notification if you have one, otherwise I'm not sure.

Ms,@Sally Sunshine can I take the ones that are dry out.they are pecking the little ones that are drying bad

Get a hot damp napkin and toss it in when you grab chicks, get your mom to help you so you can be extra fast, only grab the fluffy ones. Then leave the rest alone. If you can't do it within a few seconds then don't try. the one getting pecked won't be hurt unless they have an open navel or something.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I thought I heard that it is 1/3 of all food we produce.
Must be a better way.

Must be a good one. My heated dog water dish can barely hold in the upper 20s. It's junk.

I wasn't complaining mind you but I know how cold they said it was last night and it felt a lot colder

 

[stryker]

they are inside the shed with the ducks....like I said just a skim ice. Only one froze too......the other didn't. But who knows really how cold it gets...they call where I live(the interior) the bad lands for a reason.
But for as cold as it was last night to just get a skim is not bad. It was the first night that happened. Sucks seam to be doing just fine. I made igloos out of straw balls they all huddle inside them. This is my first winter with DUCKS so I'm learn

I still like the tote idea.. And like the idea of straw bales as you reminded me that I need to get straw bales. I might just get more to make a strawgloo. I was thinking about getting ducks so do they only lay during the spring or is it through the warm parts of the year?

 

[Saris]

@Sally Sunshine My incubation update. 33 Bielefelder eggs are in the bator as of 8pm last night. I will turn the auto turner on at 8 pm today. I'm pretty sure 2 won't make it, since they were cracked and repaired.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Ms,@Sally Sunshine can I take the ones that are dry out.they are pecking the little ones that are drying bad

Yes CH if the brooder is ready and warm. marbles in the water and sprinkle some food onthe napkins, 95 degrees in ONE corner of the brooder... have water ready to fill up your bator at the same time.

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You never list me. But for good reason, I'm not likely online. I just walk away from the computer for hours without closing anything down.

Good morning and hugs.

Oh I hope they are fertile!!! YAY lockdown!! bators are still holding well?



Shipped eggs..... 100.5-101 calibrated temps, typically LF eggs starting with a 30% humidity for my fan speeds/bators

it depends on the age of them, and what air cells are like. I like to set them as soon as possible as they are already old when they get here.

I candle upright when I get them and mark air cells immediately. Incubate upright.

Then I let them get to room temp where the bators are, and I will set after 6-12 hours if the air cells are pretty good, and start turning the next day.

HOWEVER, the ones that are wiggly jiggly loose I let sit a day or two not turning in the incubator,

and the rollers I also set in the bator, I dont touch at all until day 10 and decide what to do with them if they are alive.


ONLY candle from above, and try not to lift them or move them, dont go candling any shipped egg on its side or moving it upside down!
its best to keep them in the bator to candle. And I only really do a candle at day 7-10 depending on the shape.

Why 1-1.5 F high incubation temps for shipped eggs?

paddler gave me NOT one but but but ..............paddler gave me.hugS

Where is the grumpy cranky old man? what have you DONE with him!! Sun must be shining today!


100.5-101 temps..... because I hatch all CHICKEN eggs at that temp calibrated. nothing special about it with shipped.

try testing it a few times, rate your hatch, check how your chicks score with navels, weights, hocks etc, check your hatch rates, check your hatch times, check your empty shells. Let me know what you find.

@ChickenCanoe