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

[Cynthia12]

One out... 12 pips... 17 to go!

I now have two marans and two OE's out, and a lot that are ready to go too! Congrats on yours! It hatch day! More humidity for these little stinks works.

 

[Xmasbaby75]

Its ok, just let them be! what are you running your humidity at? you said they are ancona right?

Yes, Ancona. The humidity runs around 35% give or take 5% here and there

 

[frmboyinthecity]

I now have two marans and two OE's out, and a lot that are ready to go too! Congrats on yours! It hatch day! More humidity for these little stinks works.

I'd love a little summary of how you ran this one. I'm picking up my eggs from her tonight.

 

[Cynthia12]

OH you all can either laugh or cry over this. I have the chick that had the broken wing. I kept putting a band-aid on it, wings were too small to really fix it due to the small part pointing forward...........well, she's/he's around 4 weeks old now. I grew up and have worked in farm country all my life till recently. Well, mom had a fall so I brought eggs and chicks to meet my daughter here, (we swap hatching eggs and etc) she brought me 3 Americauna day old babies...............with me in the back seat traveling from CO was Dumpling........yep the broken wing BO kid...........I have to keep putting Dumpling in with younger ones to keep any picking on away.........soooooooooooo

I called every vet here. No birds. I finally reached one in a neighboring town 20 miles away. Up at the counter was a farmer ......he asked if I had a hamster in the box......no.......a chicken please dont laugh........he was polite lol. So the lady at the desk took Dumpling back to the vet who was waiting to do surgery on a dog, just under anesthesia........she returned and told me it would need to have the small part of the wing removed and anesthesia would be 10.00. They would want to keep her overnight.........the vet tech came out to let me know things could go wrong under sedation etc but they would do the best they could and so on. So .............I asked what the total bill would be while holding my breath..........$10.00 for the anesthesia~

Thats it. TEN DOLLARS!!!!!! I didn't have to have her put down. Tears of joy.

Wow, what an awesome thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dumpling is in surgery and I'll know tomorrow morning..............

Thank you Sally and right back at ya girl!!!

Oh my goodness..you lucky person! I sure all is well, and yes, we will need photos of this special baby!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Yes, Ancona. The humidity runs around 35% give or take 5% here and there

 

[Cynthia12]

Sometimes I laugh at her

Sometimes I laugh at her, a lot.

 

[Cynthia12]

I'd love a little summary of how you ran this one. I'm picking up my eggs from her tonight.

More humidity during incubation and lock down than I usually do, but really not that much..but it made a difference. I usually go around low to mid 30's during incubation, this time around low 40's. For lock down around 62 to 65.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Sometimes I laugh at her

psst... don't tell Sally, but I do laugh at her every now and then. That's just between us, okay?

 

[Cynthia12]

frmboy..if you read that post a while ago, I had to fix it! Got the numbers right.

 

[Brat Flock]

More humidity during incubation and lock down than I usually do, but really not that much..but it made a difference.  I usually go around low to mid 30's during incubation, this time around low 40's.  For lock down around 62 to 65.

I am right there with you. I upped my humidity as well about 40% and 60% at lockdown. I have 50% pipped on day 21 that's my best rate yet on shipped eggs and we are still going strong!