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

[daxigait]

@BantyChooksDid anything ever happen with your eggs?

 

[mlm Mike]

Quote: Oh no. Any reason you think that? I hope it isn't so.

 

[wabbit1964]

that's great!! I think mine all died :*(

Sorry

I know how you feel I lost the 5 turkey eggs I had due last week... :*(

 

[Pensmaster]

@ChickenCanoeWhen do you process a dual purpose bird like a Red Ranger or what Hoover Hatchery calls a rainbow? Mine hatched 3/1.

How have the Rainbows done for you?

Hi Dax

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Same with Zucchini, minus at least 2, unless you devote the entire garden to it!

 

[fatcatx]

Hi all - new to the thread. It will take me a while to make my way through all the past posts! :-D

I'm still pretty much a newbie to hatching since I haven't had much success. Lots of reading/research but not much in the way of results. (I guess I don't have the magic mojo.) I got a Brinsea 20 as a gift from DH in the hopes it would make things easier but it has its frustrations too. Temperature and humidity displays are reading low so I've been fiddling with that. I've got it to the point where the TOP of my chicken eggs are at 99.4-99.7. But below that point temps are lower in the 98's. Should I leave it alone at this point or still fine tune?
I thought that with a fan temps would be much more consistent throughout the incubator but they're not.

PS Happy Mother's Day to all the moms!

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Oh no. Any reason you think that? I hope it isn't so.
Unfortunately, 'cause I can't seem to upload pictures anymore, I'll be flying 1/2 solo on this hatch. I'll definitely be monitoring air cells & referencing Sally's illustrations, just no pics. I just set them 15 min. ago; got the 12 I've been collecting all week since 5/3, so no reason to wait any longer. Been storing them in a styro egg carton, hopefully large end up (on some the ends are indistinguishable from one another) ; I'll have to verify next week. All are various shades of brown, but none so dark that seeing inside should be an issue.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

@ChickenCanoe When do you process a dual purpose bird like a Red Ranger or what Hoover Hatchery calls a rainbow? Mine hatched 3/1.

I've only done freedom rangers, Cornish X and heritage breeds, including egg varieties like leghorns.

I do Cornish X at 3 weeks for Cornish Game Hens. 6-7 weeks for broilers.
Freedom Rangers are only about 2 weeks longer. 3.5-4 weeks for game hens. 7-9 weeks for broilers. By 9 weeks, half of the cockerels are too big to fit into a large vacuum seal bag.

Hi all - new to the thread. It will take me a while to make my way through all the past posts! :-D

I'm still pretty much a newbie to hatching since I haven't had much success. Lots of reading/research but not much in the way of results. (I guess I don't have the magic mojo.) I got a Brinsea 20 as a gift from DH in the hopes it would make things easier but it has its frustrations too. Temperature and humidity displays are reading low so I've been fiddling with that. I've got it to the point where the TOP of my chicken eggs are at 99.4-99.7. But below that point temps are lower in the 98's. Should I leave it alone at this point or still fine tune?
I thought that with a fan temps would be much more consistent throughout the incubator but they're not.

PS Happy Mother's Day to all the moms!

That is so true. A fan helps a lot with high to low thermal stratification in a single level table top incubator. There will still be dead spaces if it is square.
In a tall cabinet, unless it's very well designed, will still have high to low thermal stratification. However, that will be from shelf to shelf rather than from top to bottom of each egg.

My personal opinion - don't try to go back through the whole thread. You'll quickly find that there can be 20 or 30 pages in a row with nothing about incubation or poultry.
Chatty people here.
Well under 10% of threads are about incubation and that valuable/useful information is mostly in links on the first page.

 

[mlm Mike]

Hi all - new to the thread. It will take me a while to make my way through all the past posts! :-D

I'm still pretty much a newbie to hatching since I haven't had much success. Lots of reading/research but not much in the way of results. (I guess I don't have the magic mojo.) I got a Brinsea 20 as a gift from DH in the hopes it would make things easier but it has its frustrations too. Temperature and humidity displays are reading low so I've been fiddling with that. I've got it to the point where the TOP of my chicken eggs are at 99.4-99.7. But below that point temps are lower in the 98's. Should I leave it alone at this point or still fine tune?
I thought that with a fan temps would be much more consistent throughout the incubator but they're not.

PS Happy Mother's Day to all the moms!

What are you using to measure temp. and how do you know that is accurate, did you calibrate it? If you are sure it is correct, I would try to get the middle of egg at around 99.5. I think you can also try to reset the incubator to factory settings and they may be accurate again.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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The top of the egg in a still air should be about 100.5 But if yours has a fan, 99.5 is fine.