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

[BantyChooks]

So yokel what do u think

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE That chick I must have!!!

whole bunches of something

you know I amrouting on this hatch!

all go for test hatches!!

just set the flashlight on them dont move them they be fine. them itty bits I dont mess with too much, but I roll them to turn them so they are pretty strong!

yes and can you explain the whole still air vs fan thing to CH too while your at it

PLEASE pretty please, I am trying to help someone on FB

someone on FB rare breed poultry has some big jerseys!

• CALL DUCK CANDLING pics by Rayvyn day 5 & 11 & 14 & 18 see posts #1348 post #1354 post #1844 post #2696

@RavynFallen

Incubators with fans and without fans need to run at DIFFERENT TEMPS! post #31175


LOVEEEE this is what HarmonyAnn wants but we cant find any on the east coast!

Okey Dokey!

 

[shahtir101]

@Sally Sunshine I put the flashlight on them with out moving them and it looks like 4/5 are developing

 

[caeti21]

That is adorable!!! Frizzled Polish?

Yes sir

 

[caeti21]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE That chick I must have!!! 

Okey Dokey!

Lol well im trying to hatch more fingers are crossed

 

[FridayYet]

@Sally Sunshine I put the flashlight on them with out moving them and it looks like 4/5 are developing

 

[caeti21]

I need one of those

Fingers crossed ill have more hatching here in a week lol

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Ugh! I knew someone would deny it!

I went into our local feed store this fall and came out with 5 Speckled Sussex. Still regretting it... So tiny! And they're escape artists. I had hoped for more size, and to cross with my large red/black-tailed Naked Neck boy (Tank) to start in on some mottled Naked Necks. The shipped eggs I'm getting will be part aloha Naked Necks with better size than this, so hopefully I'll get at least a few chicks from that to add to my flock genetics.

Coturnix Quail Egg Candling Guide: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/coturnix-quail-egg-candling-guide

Thanks SO much! I will likely do this soon (curse you, @LocalYokel !) - good easy access to Texas A&Ms just up the road, and I have the bones of a flight pen I can make (when I finish my other chicken construction pans!!!)

just what I wanted to hear! (the oldest of these eggs is 2 days- will be 3 tomorrow at 8:00. That means they will be 5ish by set date!

yup, I noted time collected on eggs, and yes, i am crazy.

)


anyone else mark date, time, and which hen laid it on the egg carton?

Yep. Partly just because I'm a compulsive record keeper, but partly because I only have three Cream Legbar girls, each with pros and cons regarding breeding decisions. We'll see what I get, but knowing parentage will help if I want to line breed with one of the girls particularly. I'm fortunate in that I track eggs anyhow, so I can recognize their eggs by shape, size and color. (It's subtle). Not home during the day enough to do trap nests.

Sally, I was particularly interested in something I read (in my giant binge hatch reading over the past few days) - that there was a relatively recent study indicating that INCREASED temperature at hatch was associated with better heat tolerance in chicks as adults later in life. Heat tolerance is really essential for me (which is why I have Naked Necks - and the Cream Legbars have done GREAT in the summer heat here!). I'll have to look that up to see what the circumstances were in that study, and I probably won't experiment with that this first time, but something to consider for the future....

Sweetie was looking SO cute today - as she's full NN genotype, she has fewer feathers, and she's grown some under-fuzz to keep her warm on near freezing nights. She looking like she's wearing a fur-lined coat now. (She lives up to her name, follows me around, in pic below trying to jump on my shoulder. She's my secret favorite...) Friendliest birds EVER.


Here's big man for the NN flock, Severus Snape (with a rose comb! Go figure!):


(The coop I'm working on is for them - it's SO overdue, will be done soon!!!)

- Ant Farm

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I'm so confused.for Celsius it show 100.4 to 101.84.what to keep the one u sent at.and how come a still air can be 102 but a circulated air has to be 99.5

100.4 Celsius is 212.7 degrees Fahrenheit, Seth...

 

[caeti21]

whole bunches of something
you know I amrouting on this hatch!    all go for test hatches!!

just set the flashlight on them dont move them they be fine.  them itty bits I dont mess with too much, but I roll them to turn them so they are pretty strong!

yes and can you explain the whole still air vs fan thing to CH too while your at it    PLEASE pretty please, I am trying to help someone on FB

someone on FB rare breed poultry has some big jerseys!

• [COLOR=008080]CALL DUCK CANDLING pics by Rayvyn day 5 & 11 & 14 & 18 see[/COLOR] [COLOR=008080]posts[/COLOR] #1348  post #1354 post #1844 post #2696

  @RavynFallen


[COLOR=008080]Incubators with fans and without fans need to run at DIFFERENT TEMPS![/COLOR] post #31175


LOVEEEE this is what HarmonyAnn wants but we cant find any on the east coast!

Well if i knew how to ship some to u

 

[BantyChooks]

@chicken hawk 33
Bator adjustment pics- SUPER EASY!
Surely you got legos and a hot glue gun around somewhere, CH! Took me all of 60 seconds!




About still air vs forced:
Still air has varying temps in the bator, the closer to the lid the hotter it is. Therefore, because there is no fan to blow the hot air around and even out the temps, you must keep it higher (102) to insure an internal temp of 99.5. Buy a water wiggler (Or DIY with a baggie) to make sure you are getting the right internal tempature!
Clear yet? If not, re-read it 5 more times and re read hatching 101.