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

[Chipper Chicken]

Hello everyone! Whew! Just read this from page 1 on, what a terrific thread! Thank you @Sally Sunshine! Sorry you were not well, but glad you're better now! So many great tips here, not just tips...guidance, support, encouragement ......ENABLING!!!!!

I'm new to incubating too, but probably won't do any until next year, I'm trying to read and learn all I can in advance. (Still need to read incubating 101) By spring or next summer I will (hopefully ) be converting a wine cooler ($50-CL) into a nice big 'bator (Will be studying the incubator builds too). Before I do that I need to finish building my coop and run (in my spare time. Ha! ) But you know, winters coming...or rather our cold to the bone rainy season in the Williamette Valley....so on those days it's just TOO cold and wet to work outside retrofitting a cooler into a bator might be just the ticket.
Looking at all these adorable baby chicks and handsome Roo and hen pictures makes me just ache to get some. .....but I promised myself, no chickies until they could be safely kept, so...... I'll just look at all yours for now

 

[WVduckchick]

No need to
Great reference pic...
It's ok if it's not perfect, each egg is different so each bullseye might be too... as long as it is bigger than a pinpoint/pen tip, and looks "halo'd" then it is fertile...

Thanks Ravyn. You know I trust your experience! When I was trying to determine if my eggs were fertile, I never found an explanation as easy as yours. Everything seemed to point to the importance of the halo or ring, so that's what I went with. But I like your explanation better.
Also I'm on mobile, and couldn't really tell with the OPs pics.
Thanks for jumping in!

Day 21 here   One has hatched and I'm hearing a peep from one.  Total of ten went into lock down and all have horrible air cells.

Yeah yeah yeah! Pics soon please!

Hello everyone! Whew! Just read this from page 1 on, what a terrific thread! Thank you @Sally Sunshine! Sorry you were not well, but glad you're better now! So many great tips here, not just tips...guidance, support, encouragement ......ENABLING!!!!!

I'm new to incubating too, but probably won't do any until next year, I'm trying to read and learn all I can in advance. (Still need to read incubating 101) By spring or next summer I will (hopefully ) be converting a wine cooler ($50-CL) into a nice big 'bator (Will be studying the incubator builds too). Before I do that I need to finish building my coop and run (in my spare time. Ha! ) But you know, winters coming...or rather our cold to the bone rainy season in the Williamette Valley....so on those days it's just TOO cold and wet to work outside retrofitting a cooler into a bator might be just the ticket.
Looking at all these adorable baby chicks and handsome Roo and hen pictures makes me just ache to get some. .....but I promised myself, no chickies until they could be safely kept, so...... I'll just look at all yours for now

Welcome and it sounds like you are doing good homework before starting (that's odd around here!) I'm teasing. Its great!

Best of luck to you!!

 

[kwhites634]

@WVduckchick

You jumped in & jumped out w/o an update on Big Guy. How's he look this morning?

 

[Flockmama87]

Can I play too? I'm on day 7! First time with shipped eggs.....I'm nervous!

 

[kwhites634]

Can I play too? I'm on day 7! First time with shipped eggs.....I'm nervous!

Don't be...plenty of help to be had here if needed.

 

[Chipper Chicken]

Welcome and it sounds like you are doing good homework before starting (that's odd around here!) I'm teasing. Its great!

Best of luck to you!!

Thanks WV!

 

[WVduckchick]

@WVduckchick


You jumped in & jumped out w/o an update on Big Guy. How's he look this morning? 

Posted in the other house

 

[Flockmama87]

Don't be...plenty of help to be had here if needed.

Thank you! I ordered some eggs off eBay and at day 7 candling 11/12 are alive and growing strong, 1 died early, no veins, clearish with an incomplete blood ring, I left it in just in case, my last 2 hatches I had moments of oops I thought you were dead....sorry you are now.... I'm trying to avoid that this time. So I'm leaving everyone in until lockdown unless someone starts oozing or weeping.....I need the next 14 days to go by quickly, I wanna see little fuzzy butts!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I've done this. My daughter had the most response. She'd talk or chirp to them near the hatch day and they would wiggle.

you know we discussed marketing a CD for playing during incubation and hatching, but when I did the math, it just didnt $$pan out

than I thought what if I mad something that made a chirping sound in front of the fans..... then the @#$^ got too complicated and I fell asleep

you mean the pump? I guess it is kinda like a nebulizer. Its actually a pretty ingenious design. Its got a thin tube that gets wrapped around 2 prongs. The prong spin when the reading on the bator gets down to whatever its set at. There is about an inch of tubing between the 2 prongs, so if it only does a half-spin, only an inch of water (which works out to a few droplets of water) gets sent down the tube and into the bator. The water gets caught in the bator by a thick, paper-ish card, folding into a V, that hangs above the eggs.

interesting can I ask how much extra they charge for that thing?

Mine are in a automatic turner I have 25 eggs today is day six I candles some last night and seen the baby's moving

ours our day 7 Friday, we are on the same days then

Talk to them, sing to them! Whistle at them! They definitely respond. Play the "chick chirping" videos over the incubator. Its all stimulating.

someone is missing so many open windows its pathetic

@scflock

 

[Sally Sunshine]

SALLY SUNSHINE

yes? Good morning chicken hawk

try this put the @ sign in front of my name and wait for the pop up of my name to come up, then it will inform me of your post!

like this..... sweet aint it? I just tagged you!


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