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

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Sally Sunshine said:
Quote: morning Mike!!
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you are lucky the snow misses you!
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Good Morning Sally!
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dheltzel said:
With dark eggs like your BCM, I feel that you *must* keep the humidity low during the first 18 days. The extra pigment slows evaporation at lot. This is also true of blue eggs. I keep RH below 30% and raise it to 80+% for lockdown. I typically get 100% hatches on fertile BCM eggs. This year I'm getting close to that with Welsummers also, which is thrilling because last year I had lower percentages of fertile WS eggs than the other breeds. Blue eggs breeds hatch very well with the low RH also. My hatches on light brown eggs is worse, I'm contemplating incubating them separately at higher RH to see it that helps. They don't seem to have larger air cells, so this would be more of an experiment to see if there might be something else going on, though everything I know would indicate otherwise.
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Thanks a lot for the advice! It just so happens my humidity is much lower than I've had it on previous hatches...I can't give a percentage because I've been using the gauge that came with the incubator - I did order a separate thermometer and hygrometer from Amazon and should have it today - then I can test/calibrate it and add it to the incubator while I'm doing my day 7 candling/marking. Its a little late - but still learning. Trying to work out my kinks before the Easter hatch-along
 
scottcaddy said:
Quote: morning Mike!!
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you are lucky the snow misses you!
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We plan on offing several roo's that are not breeding stock and are eating way toooooooo much feed and crapping way tooooo much.
and then cleaning out the pens.
What do you have going on?
Scott

I should do the same processing actually but I wont have any help this weekend unless I ask a son to help me for the meat.
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Morning to you folks! It's afternoon here. The girls are a little mad because no one visited them often or gave them chickie treats, but I'm sure they'll get over it by the end of next week. We're buying alfalfa hay for the run and some treats tonight, they'll get them tomorrow.

Also the hens are laying again, which is a relief. It's not very often because of the winter weather, but I'm sure come Spring there's going to be plenty of eggs.
 
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