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

[Peep-Chicken]

@Sally Sunshine, you do a great job here!

 

[Saris]

Here is one with a black smudge.

This one seems to have a grey undercoat of down and it's feathers coming in seem grey or blue?

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Uglybator on this hatch, with updated wires! Uglybator interior, I put shelf liner over the wire when they go into lockdown. (the thermometer is running low because I just turned the eggs AND it's not calibrated.) The actually sensor is that little red thing at the top of the cardboard carton. these were the original wires we used on Uglybator. Eeek! Some of them were duck taped together. LOL

That name is too funny. Good luck with your hatch.

 

[RobJones]

Quote: I'm hatching 1st eggs now and upto now 7 out of 12 and still 2 to go, 3 were infertile

 

[gimmie birdies]

Here are 2 pics of my dark blue chick "Britta" she may be EE/blue wyandotte the EE dad had blue too so maybe blue ameracuna.



this last pic is the last of the 4 from my hen. "Cally"

 

[rossfam06]

Here are my Nov. 7th hatchers!!!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

The 21,needs to get here

 

[venymae]

@Sally Sunshine Come baaaaaack! I need advice! Candle now? (day 8) Candle later? (day 10) help me decide with these crazy eggs! Also is the lego/egg carton turning style ok for the big eggs? EEK!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@Sally Sunshine today is day 8. Would you like me to candle them again and give you results or wait till day 10. I had been gently hand turning the Serama in egg carton cups before candling them, I took them out of cups and put them in Turner after candle as the viable looking ones had solid air cells.

nope you know what your looking for! have at it!

@Sally Sunshine I will totally set again. In January, then probably again in March.

Still no eggs for me. The seller is returning my emails which is a good sign. I'll give them a little more time. But at this rate I might use them for the new years hatch a long.

It ain't pretty. I rewired things myself and salvaged most of this bator, so DH started calling me McGuyver. Haha

Sorry for not replying to the whole thread. I'm on my phone.

No no no. I'm sorry for misleading there. This is just testing the systems of the incubator. I will then make sure it holds 99.5 - 100. I won't actually test this as an incubator until I get all the tests out of the way. Heat is a 100W bulb. I know I should have a backup based on Sally's plans, but I'm still testing whether these scrap materials can actually turn into a working bator.

Edited to add, I don't even have fertile eggs to test this on, so whether or not it actually hatches anything will not be known for a couple months.

If you didn't install a double light system, I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU do two lights in one of these!!
THEY DO BLOW, and they blow your hatch could easily be lost!

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Wow, I got candle of the year?! Thanks Miss @Sally Sunshine !

So interesting development here on my front...

Wasn't it just a few days ago that @Hawk12 was telling us about her husband having the "talk" with her about her "obsession?" And as I read her post I was thinking to myself how fortunate I've been that my husband has let me go about this "thing" so freely... Then lo and behold, two nights ago he inquired about my chicken math... And then gave me a talking to since we have 5 3-week old chicks in the brooder and 10 eggs set to hatch soon... And just where was I planning on putting all these chickens? I told him he needed to build me another coop!

Wrong answer. Well, Miss @Sally Sunshine , no bear came by but apparently Mr. Bobcat paid us a visit sometime yesterday as I was missing one girl at closing time. We walked around the house and found the trail of feathers...

So what did I do last night? Maybe it was out of rebellion after our talk... Maybe it was because I lost a girl last night... Or maybe it was the addiction... But I put in the last Silkie egg and 3 LF eggs into the incubator (because the Silkie would need friends)!

And no, he doesn't know!

I'm telling myself it's an experiment to see how the eggs handle staggered hatching!

BOBCAT!!!!! Omgeeeeeerrrrrrdddddd do you take a rifle out to close them up at night?

Nice, I'm hoping my monster egg isn't a double. Talked to her last night, and she said some of those have been, but a lot weren't. Wouldn't it be fun if I got that thing to hatch. How big would that chick be?!?

did ya get a weight?

Actually, I like mine with a single bulb better than the new ones with a bunch of little bulbs. Mini-MagLite. I taped a piece of craft foam to the top, with a hole cut in the foam, to soften it against the egg.

DITTO!!!

I'm hatching 1st eggs now and upto now 7 out of 12 and still 2 to go, 3 were infertile

AWESOME!!!!!! go chickies!!!

Here are 2 pics of my dark blue chick "Britta"



this last pic is the last of the 4 from my hen. "Cally"

I AM IN LOVE with that blue !!!!!!!!! and what a beautiful chick picture gimmie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@Sally Sunshine Come baaaaaack! I need advice! Candle now? (day 8) Candle later? (day 10) help me decide with these crazy eggs! Also is the lego/egg carton turning style ok for the big eggs? EEK!

air cells that are stable and not saddled are ok to lay down now

just wait to candle
you know what to look for as far as air cell growth, you have plenty time to adjust yet!