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

[kwhites634]

whites....what do you mean...hard water is good water.....Heck even I can walk on it!

Hard water's good only if you can walk on it, not in it.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Hard water's good only if you can walk on it, not in it.

got a point there....

 

[fresnofarmer]

@Sally Sunshine

UPDATE!
Out of 7, 4 hatched I'm pretty sure the other 3 are DIS but not sure I'll wait till the end of today before I toss em.

 

[Akrnaf2]

@Sally Sunshine

UPDATE!
Out of 7, 4 hatched I'm pretty sure the other 3 are DIS but not sure I'll wait till the end of today before I toss em.

What day, and what breed?

 

[fresnofarmer]

What day, and what breed?

Last night, grocery store trader Joe's fertile eggs(not sure of exact breed but for 3$ a dozen worth practicing on)

 

[casportpony]

Yep - I actually sort of wish it was a work day so I HAD to be away.

Nonetheless, I just caught number three on the way out (missed the first two). Caption should read: "Hatching is HARD." You can see on the shell how crazy the air cell was on this one, I think:



- Ant Farm

Congrats! That's almost as beautiful as my baby pigeons!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

@Sally Sunshine

UPDATE!
Out of 7, 4 hatched I'm pretty sure the other 3 are DIS but not sure I'll wait till the end of today before I toss em.

Congrats!

-Kathy

 

[Saris]

x 100 literally Every chick due to hatch today and tomorrow (45)have to be removed from the Bator. The current risk to the others can be mitigated by dipping all the other eggs or fumigating the Bator before they start breathing since hatch is stressful they will ahead ms immediately.
The experts fron NC vet school and research facility specializung in poultry have said the locals are wrong. The odds are not small that they have mycoplasma synoviae spread vertically, but will have it worse and spread it Horizontally.
Why did no one else I talked to sooner. Now these fully developed chicks have to be killed, and we have to fumigate the Bator or clean with bleach. She is checking with the main research guy on mycoplasma and will get back to us on the best hope for our other eggs. We will also have to keep them separate until they can be tested.
I need a good guy or someone to help me cull

Oh sweetie! So many hugs that's terrible! Is there no one one your local thread or maybe the people who just bought your other birds with a separate 'bator for you to use? I'm so sorry you have to go through this.

I'm keeping your other eggies in my thoughts and prayers.

I've never heard or read about putting the low part of the AC up. I will do that.
But, looking back on all my notes (not very good notes in the beginning) this morn. I noticed my 1st batch of chicken eggs I had 2 temp spikes while incubating. I keep 3-4 glass Aquarium thermometers in the bator and the hatcher, (I have calibrated them) and they tend to be different temps, withing 2 to 4 degrees of eachother. I find it hard to keep a constant temp with the styrofoam bators. I really need to get better bators, if I am going to keep incubating.
I also noticed that when in lockdown (for chicken eggs) my temps were from 96 degrees to 100 degrees. Anything over 98.5 degrees is too High, right?
I have only incubated 2 batches of chicken eggs and 1 batch of duck eggs.
Everytime I read about temps and humidity I see a degree or 2 difference in these and I try to stay within them.
Looking back at my notes and really thinking about it, I think my temps may be fluxuating too much. I really try not to touch the dials and up and down, but it goes up and down on its own.... the bator, I can't control a poor/cheap bator.
This time I am trying the "bator in a box" method and see if the temps stay steady. I ready that if you wrap your bator with a towel/blanket or but it in a box (just up to the sides of the bator) this helps the styrofoam bators keep temps from spiking. I dont know? I just keep reading and trying. Just like they say "a practicing Doctor" I am "a practicing hatcher".
Thanks ladies, any comments are welcomed. I love to learn and hear what works for you.

Is the room you have your bator in experiences any big fluctuations in temperature? Always candle when you're putting your eggs into lock down to see where the dip is. *hugs I hope your next hatch goes better.

 

[jwlpoultry]

Alright I need advice. I want some red golden pheasants and some Yellow golden as well. I can get 1 dozen of each including shipping it is 95.70 or I can get an assortment that has

4 Lady Amherst, 4 Red Golden, 4 Reeves, 4 Yellow Golden, 4 Silver and 4 Melanistic Pheasant hatching eggs. What route would you go? I don't have enough pens to seperate each individual breed if I had enough males and females of all of them to hatch but I would be getting a nice assortment but I wouldnt have as good of a chance to get at least a male and female of each kind​

 

[kwhites634]

Alright I need advice. I want some red golden pheasants and some Yellow golden as well. I can get 1 dozen of each including shipping it is 95.70 or I can get an assortment that has

4 Lady Amherst, 4 Red Golden, 4 Reeves, 4 Yellow Golden, 4 Silver and 4 Melanistic Pheasant hatching eggs. What route would you go? I don't have enough pens to seperate each individual breed if I had enough males and females of all of them to hatch but I would be getting a nice assortment but I wouldnt have as good of a chance to get at least a male and female of each kind​

I'd go with the $95.70; the odds are better for getting a pair from each variety. Get the others later, when you have the right setup.