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

[nuklee0]

IDK I am having issues with porous eggs on candle right now, even in serama coup, we switched to a lower protein food, and switched coops, and then light change   combo of things, feed delivery is thursday.  the eggs are incubating just fine though.  first time ever happened,

now if I can keep up with them!

ummm Hawk12 what did I quote ?? its empty??  ha ha ha 

hmmmmm   bet the pullets were inferts   and you think you did it wrong ha ha ha




whens bear season? after thanksgivin?

WHATCHA getting where how what who???

sorry I cant help with silkies, I cant see them very well either  males have like longer straight stick like feathers coming out of their head, and saddle like feathering  yours may be too young?  and bigger nugget combs for males  and stand taller


@Flockmama87


but at what level is the 100 degrees?  I dont want you too cold, but you MUST be calibrated too....    I forget if you were on when I posted this before..... 

I just want to avoid a delayed and death of chicks like ambe0487 just had.....

Hatching Eggs 101 - BackYard Chickens Community

when using a Still Air incubator (no fan) run at 102º F.​

The reason for different temperatures is that with a fan model the circulating air warms all around the egg while still air temperatures are warmer at the top of the egg than at the bottom. The temperature is measured at the level where the embryos develop (at the top of the HORIZONTAL egg). NOTE:​

If the eggs are in vertical position, elevate the thermometer just below the top of the egg. The temperature is measured at the level where the embryos develop (at the top of the egg). Never allow the thermometer to touch the eggs or incubator because incorrect readings can result.​

A high temperature tends to produce early hatches. A consistently cooler temperature tends to increase incubation times and produce weakened chicks. In both cases the total chicks hatched will be reduced.  Prepare your incubator and run it for several days before adding eggs, to be positive you are maintaining correct incubation temperature. ​

My husband got a bear tag during summer because of this bear and then it stopped coming... Almost like it knew! Well, bear season ends on Nov 15th, so of course it's back now...

 

[Cynthia12]

no its NOT!

I get our 5 kids mixed up all the time too, they get soooooo mad at me too!

I feel ya here..try having 33 Grandchildren's names to remember. :/

 

[Cynthia12]

This last one sure looks like a boy.

 

[Cynthia12]

Aww he sounds like he was a great family pet! I've had a very similar experience so far with my pit. We have 4 kids ranging in age from 1-13 and she is great with them! She had a rough start in life but now... Well you can see she's pretty content now lol

Yep.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

That's what I was thinking I'm hoping for two girls and a boy

 

[chicken hawk 33]

How come my Silkies have 5 toes

 

[Cynthia12]

Ok for what its worth I have a 1588 and have only hatched ONCE. Bout four years ago.

I bought a reptile thermometer/hygrometer and NEVER touched any calibration what so ever. I set Araucana eggs and Gunea Fowl eggs at the same time. All from pullets all gathered from the floor of the coop. The guinea eggs had sat out in full sun being Jack booted by the guineas. I gathered up the cleanest of all. it was summer time. So temperatures were in the high nineties.

Broght the eggs down to San Diego and set em all. Six Auracana and Four Guinea. Put them in the inucbator and timed it I did Candle but ONly saw movement in the Guinea eggs. I only candled twice. before lockdown for the chicken eggs. I locked em all down at the same time knowing I was early by a couple of days for the Guineas.

None of the Auracanas hatched.... But three our of four Guineas hatched. It was like watching popcorn... as soon as a pip happened the zip was about a third of the way around and POP... OMG they were so tiny and soo cute...

I did everything wrong... Nothing should have hatched. I consider myself luckey.

I havent hatched since.

deb

Time to try again. I've never, ever, and never ever, been told that I'm an enabler. Time to hatch again, yep!!

You have an incubator that isn't being used!! Do you know how many folks here are just dieing? They would love to have that bator!

 

[Flockmama87]

@Sally Sunshine oh! I gotcha now, the 100 is reading from the resting on the eggs. So I need to lower it just a little and adjust the temps, but either way I need to bring it up 2 degrees? Possibly more if according to the temp I get when I lower the thermometer to where the embryos are developing?

 

[Ravynscroft]

How come my Silkies have 5 toes

Because they're supposed to...

 

[Cynthia12]

It was exactly a week ago that it came and took my silkies. After that incident, we put up trail cams and have been looking every night... Came back last night for a snack, but no snack.

I am soo scared of bears. I am worried about them anytime I go ..well used to go..hiking where I knew good and well there were black bears out there.