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

[Bejammie]

Thanks...technically they are supposed to stay 55 degrees....dang rain

 

[napdognewfie]

You do mean 10 week chicks and not 10 week old chicks? Just checking.

 

[WVduckchick]

How long have they been outside? Are they feathering in well?
Mine were outside without any heat and when they were 10 weeks we dropped below freezing! Didn't lose any of them. They huddle together, as long as they can avoid wind.

 

[WVduckchick]

You do mean 10 week chicks and not 10 week old chicks? Just checking.

Oh good point! 10 chicks a week old, or 10weeks old?

 

[WVduckchick]

Dropping 5 degrees each week, starting at 95 degrees, would be 10 weeks. Whew! Glad I didn't kill someone's week old chicks.

 

[BantyChooks]

Dont cave to his narcissism

Too late

Ha! Thanks! well, SC better hurry up and read it 'cause in 10 minets or LESS I'm REMOVING IT!!! 
(and, I have never had a valid excuse to smack someone, so it's fun!) 

Still too much to read

STILL??? When I put it at the START of the article??? SC,you'd better be kidding..

 

[Saris]

Update.

All 10 are out! Out of 12, 1 was too porous to set and 1 quit at 1 week.

Hatched at 100F in my trusty old styro from the 80s. Same thermometer that came with it and registers the same as the backup. It is on my kitchen counter.

I just had 100% of my ducks hatch.

Does that count as 100%?

Way to go!

 

[ChickenLady2014]

 
So I learned a huge lesson on incubating eggs today. Secure the spot you put your incubator... Yesterday was football Sunday in our house.. This means a whole lot of people especially those under the three foot variety.. I hand turned my eggs yesterday as usual, but really didn't pay attention to temperature and stuff because I was too busy running around cooking and hosting a house full. At one point in the evening one of the kids, not mine, but a visiting child had covered my bater. I found it when I went to turn the eggs. Took it off and off I went... This morning when I got up to check the eggs, I had noticed the high temperature of the day that was recorded was 106, but they were 100 this morning.. Im guessing they got that hot while the kids were messing with it. I candled one egg and still saw movement. I didn't candle the rest because I am on day 16 and in two days I will do a complete candling and recording of air sac. Anyway, lesson learned. We will see what happens...

Drive some 20 penny nails in the wall, near the front door, so you'll have a place to hang the crumb snatchers the next time they descend on you  

OMG too funny

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Hey everyone

 

[kwhites634]

That's why I have been around more. She asked me to check in. My style is just a tad different than hers

Hadn't noticed, myself