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

[lazy gardener]

I have another question. When I go into lock down, do they stay in their wire holders, or do I remove the holders and let them lay on their sides?

IMO, that answer depends on air cell size. If this is your first hatch, and you feel that the air cells are the right size, you can lay them down. If you feel that they maybe should be bigger, you can hatch in a carton with eggs standing up if the bator is sized appropriately for that, and if placing them in that position won't put them too close to your heat source. Or if you're an experimenter, you could do half and half, and see what works best for you. This summer, one of my hatches wasn't so good. (19/25 that went to lock down if I remember correctly) They had been laid flat for hatch and there were quite a few DIS, malpositioned, wet. It may have been b/c they got too big due to my nutrition experiment. Next hatch, I put them upright in cartons at day 14, continued tilting till day 18, and got 22/?24 with far less intervention required.

Why is my chick(not even 24 hours old) being so mean to her friend? She keeps pecking his eye. I showed her food but she doesn't want it.

Attracted to bright shiny objects. It's normal, even though it looks brutal. Toss some marbles in there!

I fear this will happen once I build my incubator. I returned the LG to the friend I borrowed it from. Once I have a functional incubator available I don't know when I'll stop hatching.

Building an incubator is a fun project in and of it'self. But, does not compare to hatching! Great sense of accomplishment to take a pile of miscellaneous junk and turn it into a box that will cook an egg to perfection, resulting in perfectly done chicks!

Ok ya'll please don't shoot me. I tried to tape up the broken wing. It's broken in TWO places!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I even thought about and am still thinking about glueing it in place with and every few days trying to clip the down. Now the question I don't want to shot over........does anyone put down their babies that have issues like this or do they try to fix all of them. I have put several down from issues over the hatches I've had but never one that's up and healthy with a wing issue

I'd get a roll of thin vet tape, (it will stick to it'self but not to the chick's down) and do a light figure 8 around the chick's thorax, catching the wing in it on the second wrap around. Be sure you don't impede the chick's crop! You'll have to be careful it's not too tight, and take it off every couple of days for growth, and to be sure the circulation is ok. Any bones sticking out? Any blood? Any idea how it happened? (you don't want any others to get injured) You can work with it, or put the chick down. Your call. Are you sure it's not just a droopy wing?

 

[kwhites634]

what does?

The # of posts.
Try keeping up, huh?

 

[venymae]

@Sally Sunshine My temps are doing great, however the uglybator's humidity is high thanks to a 4yo syringing water through the bottom vent holes

Trying to get it down w/o lowering the temp or moving the eggs, but it's still pretty high. Other than that everything is peachy-keen

 

[Saris]

I'm curious as to whether those little dividers will hold those chicks. I doubt it.

It held them long enough fro me to see who hatched from where, not much longer....

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@Sally Sunshine My temps are doing great, however the uglybator's humidity is high thanks to a 4yo syringing water through the bottom vent holes

Trying to get it down w/o lowering the temp or moving the eggs, but it's still pretty high. Other than that everything is peachy-keen

take the eggs out if they are in cartons and get that water out, are you running at the temps I said in our message?????

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I don't have pics

 

[chicken hawk 33]

When clipping a geunies wings,do u clip one or both

 

[BantyChooks]

I will add trouble with most of us is that we think we need tons of nest boxes and in the end we realize we can have 20 hens and they use two or three nest boxes and all that space is wasted in our coops!!  in fact that was one of the things we did the past two weekends, after all these years we ripped out all our nest boxes and cut them into thirds and 1/4 !! and so much more room in every coop!!! we shouldnt have procrastinated! wow the room to move in them and more roosting room and cleaning room and area for feed!!

love the coops now!!!  we learn as we go!!  but nesting boxes are so pretty, but you really dont need many!! they love to share and be greedy hens!!

Yeah, I have 21 nest boxes for 11 layers, I'd take them out but they were built into the coop by the previous owner!!!!

 

[mymilliefleur]

When clipping a geunies wings,do u clip one or both

Just clip the flight feathers on one wing. If you clip both wings they will still be able to fly to some degree.

 

[cliffoco]

woot, I have an internal pip (I didn't lift the egg but I did lift the bator lid and shined a light on the top and saw what looked like a little beak. Here is my question, I have my eggs on a towel and not a flat mesh like a lot of you have. I read somewhere to place it so the lowest part of the air cell is on top, Should I put something hard and flat so they can roll around or will they be fine.

I have a 300 watt space heater in my bator so it heats up quickly only drops in temperature while its open, but from now on. NO MORE Openings, It will be tough!.

Also my aircell shifted,,, before it was more centered on top but after laying horizontal without turning for a few days it seems to have dipped lower in the egg ( I mistakenly thought the air cell got bigger but it didn't)