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

[BullChick]

No way! You were just gone for 3 days lol

Okay. Tell me when I'm lazy.

What would you check it against? 

I see Joey gave an answer. My answer is to compare it against two or three other thermometers or hydrometers.

No but I have a broody who it looks like she killed her first chick that hatched. Why would they do that?

It could have been an accident, but I had one that killed the only yellow chick out of 10 other black chicks.

Hi everyone!
I am new to this thread. I will be getting approximately 24 LF Brahma eggs through the mail in the next day or 2.  I have read Sally Sunshine's info on incubating eggs and shipped eggs, but I gotta tell you,  I am starting to Freak out a bit!
I have had my bator on for 2 days now, and calibrated it with an external digital thermometer/hygrometer.  I trust this digital hygrometer/thermometer, because I have had a high hatch rate with chicks and ducks in the past using this.
I plan to let the eggs sit a day and then put in bator and not start turner for 3 days.  It is a new KingsUro Max 20 with a very slow, steady tilt.  
My biggest concern is that our house humidity is 54%, hence so is the incubator. Based on everything I have read, it should be closer to 40% the first 18 days.
Any suggestions, thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

Rice in or out of a sock or bowl.

you can put rice in a sock to help absorb the moisture in there

I agree.

 

[chicksforme]

you can put rice in a sock to help absorb the moisture in there

Great idea thank you!

 

[BullChick]

Okay, so I was right when I was thinking it wasn't a pure BCM (mine never had lacing). But correct that it looks a lot like one. It's eggs are nice anyway. Both laid in my coop today. Probably their first eggs!
I did not know that my chickens were letting the strangers inside the coop. They don't let the others (the neighbors' other chickens) in there. I am very concerned however, because these are pullets that they just got from someone else. I do not know what kind of diseases they might be carrying.
I'm sure a lot of you have a lot of questions about this situation. You can ask or just assume that it's hopeless. My flock is going to mingle with the neighbors' flock. It's too late to worry about it now.

 

[Jessimom]

Here is the link I posted on growing duckweed.


https://gardenpool.org/online-classes/growing-duckweed

 

[mandk14]

Is my first time hatching eggs and I've read that you have to have a sponge in the last 3 days of incubation and therefore moisture how do I get my sponge in the bottom on my incubator being as I already have the egg turner in there full of eggs

 

[BullChick]

No way! You were just gone for 3 days lol

It was four.

 

[Jessimom]

Is my first time hatching eggs and I've read that you have to have a sponge in the last 3 days of incubation and therefore moisture how do I get my sponge in the bottom on my incubator being as I already have the egg turner in there full of eggs

You don't NEED a sponge. You just need a way to keep the humidity up. But you are talking about the sponge being added the last 3 days....you will need to take the egg turner out for lock down (the last 3 days). So, there will be room for a sponge.

I now use a puppy pad under the rubber shelf liner I put in the bottom of the bator.

 

[mandk14]

Thanks for the help. So it will be safe for me to move the eggs for the automatic Turner

 

[BantyChooks]

That is why I never liked birds in the first place. It is amazing that I have chickens, but I don't put them in open sided cages in my house!

Never liked them?!!!?

I happen to not care. The cute makes it worth it...... And then some!

LOVELY IMAGES MC!! you are in no way old!!   I just sent Mike a pic of me, my hair has gone natural in the past several months plenty of grey and eyes as black as can be!!! you are NOT OLD! NOT EVEN CLOSE!!



Thank you so much for helping others!!!

@Freedom Acres
  you sell this?? message me please!

thanks sweets!

I do my own laundry soap with that

dawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

my ducks would enjoy eating them!!

Hi Jess!!! 

Hi Justin!!  sorry been out for a bit


@stryker
  did they arrive??????

AWESOME!!!!  GO BABIES!!

GOOD LUCK KATHY!!!!  thank you again for all your wonderful donations!!! 

THANKS EVERYONE!!

lmao MC!!! ha ha ha you sound like me!

mornin MC!!

Grey hair is a badge of honor- it means you made it through a lot of life and survived!

[COLOR=FF0000]YOU YELL A LOT!!!![/COLOR]

I will forgive you!

Aw, cmon MC! She only yells when it is needful.

[COLOR=FF0000]ONLY WHEN I NEED TO!!![/COLOR]

We can't?  Wish you'd told me that in November, before I got hooked. This thread is worse than a good book & drugs...hard to put down   

Agreed. I spend wayyyyy too much time on here.

You dumb, stupid, good-for-nothing piece of poop, idiotic, piece of trash!

I put the thread down.

Bwhahahahaha! MC!! Really??
-Banti

 

[BullChick]

Never liked them?!!!?

I happen to not care. The cute makes it worth it...... And then some!
Grey hair is a badge of honor- it means you made it through a lot of life and survived!
Aw, cmon MC! She only yells when it is needful.

Agreed. I spend wayyyyy too much time on here.
Bwhahahahaha! MC!! Really??
-Banti

Nope, never liked parrots, cockatiel, etc. I didn't care in a pet shop, but tossed out food and poop? No thanks.
I like when she yells at some people, but as I said. I don't like to yell. Yelling scares me.
Well, Whites said he couldn't put the thread down. I was helping!