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

[Chaos18]

mornin y'all!

Akrnaf2 Chaos18 Pensmaster Ur-ur-ur-urrr azkc scottcaddy










LOCKDOWN !!! mixed bantams from a friend, legbar and 1st gen protect birds!!

Morning

What's a 1st gen protect bird? If you're staying inside until the temps above your age...........oh never mind. Enjoy the hot chocolate.

 

[Pensmaster]

mornin y'all! Akrnaf2 Chaos18 Pensmaster Ur-ur-ur-urrr azkc scottcaddy LOCKDOWN !!! mixed bantams from a friend, legbar and 1st gen protect birds!!

Morning Sally sunshine What's the project bird consist of.

 

[casportpony]

I was going to go back & try to find out who posted that the were finally done getting rid of chicken lice, but I gave up.  Anyone know who that was?  I have some questions I'd like to ask.  Thanks 

Poultry dust containing permethrin is what I use most, but I also use 5% Sevin powder. Ivermectin will_not_treat poultry lice. Search the BYC site for posts by Dawg53 for lice treatments.

-Kathy

 

[Pensmaster]

Poultry dust containing permethrin is what I use most, but I also use 5% Sevin powder. Ivermectin will_not_treat poultry lice. Search the BYC site for posts by Dawg53 for lice treatments.

-Kathy

I've had pretty good luck with plain old oak ashes spread on the roost. Rubbed in with old gloves course all gloves here are getting old.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Good morninig to you all!


You said chocolate, you got it!

 

[Pensmaster]

This is a translation of a post that I have written in a forum in Israel that I am one of its admins. I hope it will help thous that cano't see the development of the air cell in a very dark shell eggs:
Anyone who incubate eggs know that one of the most important parameters except the incubation temperature, is the humidity.
The accepted convention says that incubation eggs (in the first 19 days) should have humidity of 50% and during the hatching (days 19-21) humidity should move around the 75%.
I would like to say that such determinations are not absolute!
We must remember that moisture is the only means of bringing the egg weight loss necessary for the development of air cell. Chicken eggs have to lose 11-13 percent of their weight from day 1 to day 19 of incubation. This is the percentage that allows the creation of proper air cell and normal development! If the egg does not lose weight at the appropriate rate that the an air sack will develop properly, mean that the incubator humidity is too high and we need to reduce it! And if it losses weight that is higher than 11-13 percent and the air cell is greater than that needed, means that the humidity in an incubator is lower that what is needed, and we should raise it! The correct way to determine the correct incubation humidity present is to calculate the future weight loss of of the egg.
And the way to calculate this is:
You should weight the egg before entering it to the incubation. After the first 4 days ,in the first candling you weight it again. The gap weight (starting weight less weight on the fourth day), you divide the initial weight of the egg, the result should be multiplied by 100, that is the percentage of weight lost, percentage, for four days. Daily weight loss percentages can be known by dividing the result by 4.
To know the expected rate of weight loss of the entire incubation period you should multiplied the percentage of daily weight loss by 19. and this is the expected weight loss over the incubation. If it is between 11-13 percent humidity you are good, If it do not, you should correct the humidity levels!


for example:
If the initial egg weight is 56 grams
And after 4 days is 54.8 grams.

So: the ratio of weight lost in 4 days is:
0.0214 = (56 - 54.8):56
Multiple the result by 100
And This Is considered the weight loss percentages for 4 days:
0.0214 * 100 = 2.14%

2.14% are weight loss in 4 days. So to know the daily weight loss percentages is:
2.14% : 4 = 0.54%

Calculate the percentage of weight loss per incubation period (first 19 days):
0.54% * 19 = 10.3%

This humidity Value of 10.3% is lower than the minimum of 11% percent required, it means that probably that humidity in the incubator was higher than necessary and you have to reduce it!
Good luck

Thank you. I'll be weighing mine next time. Last batch was shipped and I was more concerned with moving them too much. 9 of 18 hatched although not as clean as I'd like.

 

[Chaos18]

Good morninig to you all!


You said chocolate, you got it!

Thanks Benny, @Sally Sunshine appreciates it on a cold day like this.

 

[BantyChooks]

Solution is simple. Send me your legbars

No, I want them!

I want coffee! :-((

Have some of UR's coffee!!

mornin y'all! Akrnaf2 Chaos18 Pensmaster Ur-ur-ur-urrr azkc scottcaddy LOCKDOWN !!! mixed bantams from a friend, legbar and 1st gen protect birds!!

Wahoo!!

Good morninig to you all! You said chocolate, you got it!

Danke, Benny!

 

[mrleeroy]

 

[Akrnaf2]

Solution is simple. Send me your legbars

No, I want them!

I want coffee! :-((

Have some of UR's coffee!!

mornin y'all! Akrnaf2 Chaos18 Pensmaster Ur-ur-ur-urrr azkc scottcaddy LOCKDOWN !!! mixed bantams from a friend, legbar and 1st gen protect birds!!

Wahoo!!

Good morninig to you all! You said chocolate, you got it!

Danke, Benny!

Bitte Bu! You can stronger you coffee with this!