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

[slordaz]

couldnt sleep

your funny phage!! that creature is pretty cool, and that angel with a birdie needs a halo

is this chick walking on its hocks perhaps?

ha ha ha Good on you!!!

ok

every single month!!! sweet!!!!

5 hours! holy wow you got me beat

well I think that's a record for me this week doing staggered, next time I try that one just shoot me and put me outta my misery, last 3 days I am up looking and checking stuff every hour.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

won't fit without making it fit I have one and tried but the LG brand is to big and didn't want to cut on the turner some where I have pictures of that thing .

X2
I have a Hovabator turner and it won't fit into a LG. I'm sure they do that so the parts are purposely non-interchangeable.

Can't wait for mine too start hatching.two more weeks

Spend this time getting your brooder and accessories ready.

Ohhhhh! I was just going to crack them open on my forehead like I do other eggs.

The voices in my head think that you mentioned the bag because you do know me well enough to know I am a little "different".

I take my stinkers, leakers and quitters to the compost pile for the eggtopsy. Then I bury them in the hot, fresh compost pile.

+1. @chicken hawk 33 this is what I use. I ordered it online, but you can pick these up (dosing syringes) at most drug stores. Just add a short piece of airline tubing, and you're good to go!

Nice.

When I had my Chevy Astro I rigged rod holders to the pieces of trim across the "ceiling". They were out of the weather, didn't get tangled, & were readily accessible whenever the spirit hit me to wet a line.

Great setup.
I used to keep rods with me as well.

we did as well in my astro!!!






this is a cool one for storing in the garage...

Nice as well.

It's TOMATO MATH. I usually set up about 30-50 different varieties (the ones I like are likely different because of the hot dry climate). I grow mine with mild neglect to ferret out which are hardiest and don't need babying in the hot dry weather. Best performers last year were Iraqi varieties from Baker Creek - Ninevah and Baswra (SP?). Matt's Wild Cherry always does really well - it's related to wild tomates from Mexico. Cherokee Green is a new one and is AMAZING! Just sayin'.

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I'm a victim as well. I had about 15 varieties last year. I think I'll limit it to 10 this year. Getting ready to start them in flats this week or next.

@Sally Sunshine much of a strain).


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- Ant Farm

Nice graph.

http://www.galvinfo.com:8080/zclp/definition/airborne_salinity.html

I am reading this on google now!!!!! ha ha ha

I am thinking salt in the air makes an additional consideration

But Thailand and Vietnam wouldn't have salt in the air inland away from the coast.

do you think a chickens temperature is higher and lower per climate?

No.
Birds are not reptiles. Birds and Mammals are both warm blooded.
106 for a hen, a little higher for chicks.
A human inside the Arctic circle is still 98.6. Just like one in Death Valley at midday.

Morning dudes and dudettes! I'm awake, wide-eyed, and bushy-tailed. Just fed the chickens and since it's not raining I split up a small bale of alfalfa hay for them to scratch up. How's everyone?

Good. The sun is just trying to pop over the horizon.
Yesterday was great but today will be the pick day for a while. I wish I didn't have so many loose ends to tie up here.
The Soulard Mardi Gras Barkus dog parade is today. It's the world's largest costumed animal parade.
There's supposed to be 100-150 Dachshunds entered in the wiener dog derby.

Any dog lovers? (or ponies and goats for that matter)

And yeah, that's Kevin Bacon on the float.

This one gets better at the 3:30 mark but the dogs on the tandem bike at the beginning are good too.

I thought you were going to bed??? ...

I was thinking the same thing.

FINALLY GOT AN EGG


(okay I think I'm done freaking out. It's been three months give me a break!)

Congratulations!
Days are getting longer. At my locale today will be 10 hours, 11 minutes from sunrise to sunset and 11:07 from civil twilight to civil twilight.

'Eh. Cheesecloth is like a screen. Loose plastic wrap too. Or leave it open.

I use 5 gallon pickle buckets for FF and have 2 going most of the time and 3 in summer. I just set the lid on loosely but in warm weather when gnats are bad I cover with a cloth and then the lid. That usually keeps them out. I think I'll try cheesecloth.

I was intrigue about an issue consudering humidiy in incubation.
In Thailand and Vietnam the relative humidity is 75% in avarage with spics of 90%! 24/365! How can chickens and outer bird incubate normaly?

It stays humid here almost year round. I've wondered the same. I know a hen can't lower the humidity when ambient is 90%, nor can she raise it appreciably when it's 20% but they always hatch well under a hen.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I havent a clue enough for all us to eat and me to set

and occasionally I can sell some and give some to mom for eatin
I have project birds that lay like crazy remember thems eatin eggs there

 

[BantyChooks]

My humidity is steady at 32...... That OK for now, or should I lower it slightly?
I'm flying blind on the humidity until I can do day 7 candle & see how much weight loss there is, but I don't want it to be too high.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote:
I used thin wire and stitched window screening around a cut piece of garden hose that I stuck a stick in to hold the ends together so the circle shape stayed and made it big enough to fit over my buckets and tub, I always had the cheese cloth falling in or the lids getting bumped by kiddos... I can set them off like any other lid.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

My humidity is steady at 32...... That OK for now, or should I lower it slightly?
I'm flying blind on the humidity until I can do day 7 candle & see how much weight loss there is, but I don't want it to be too high.

leave it 30-35 first 7 see whatcha got

 

[slordaz]

well I got a bright idea while partly awake and took my accurite outta the incubator for a bit, to check ambient temp humidity with the trouble I had this time and decided to put pan of water on temp was 70 but humidity outside of the incubator was only like 20% got to up to about 40% which was no small feat with heater coming on a lot.

 

[kwhites634]

X2
I have a Hovabator turner and it won't fit into a LG. I'm sure they do that so the parts are purposely non-interchangeable.

Spend this time getting your brooder and accessories ready.

I take my stinkers, leakers and quitters to the compost pile for the eggtopsy. Then I bury them in the hot, fresh compost pile.

Nice.

Great setup.
I used to keep rods with me as well.

Nice as well.

I'm a victim as well. I had about 15 varieties last year. I think I'll limit it to 10 this year. Getting ready to start them in flats this week or next.

Nice graph.

But Thailand and Vietnam wouldn't have salt in the air inland away from the coast.

No.
Birds are not reptiles. Birds and Mammals are both warm blooded.
106 for a hen, a little higher for chicks.
A human inside the Arctic circle is still 98.6. Just like one in Death Valley at midday.

Good. The sun is just trying to pop over the horizon.
Yesterday was great but today will be the pick day for a while. I wish I didn't have so many loose ends to tie up here.
The Soulard Mardi Gras Barkus dog parade is today. It's the world's largest costumed animal parade.
There's supposed to be 100-150 Dachshunds entered in the wiener dog derby.

Any dog lovers? (or ponies and goats for that matter)

And yeah, that's Kevin Bacon on the float.

This one gets better at the 3:30 mark but the dogs on the tandem bike at the beginning are good too.

I was thinking the same thing.

Congratulations!
Days are getting longer. At my locale today will be 10 hours, 11 minutes from sunrise to sunset and 11:07 from civil twilight to civil twilight.

I use 5 gallon pickle buckets for FF and have 2 going most of the time and 3 in summer. I just set the lid on loosely but in warm weather when gnats are bad I cover with a cloth and then the lid. That usually keeps them out. I think I'll try cheesecloth.

It stays humid here almost year round. I've wondered the same. I know a hen can't lower the humidity when ambient is 90%, nor can she raise it appreciably when it's 20% but they always hatch well under a hen.

"civil"? Never heard that word in conjunction with sunlight/sunset. What's it mean?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Morning everyone!

Just wanted to report on my shipped eggs. When I candled the first time, I was stupid and didn't candle upright, and also didn't mark the air cell. This morning is 36 hours after setting (after about 24-30 hours sitting upright at room temp). So I needed to candle today to mark the saddles (so I would know how to turn).

Good news is that the ENORMOUS saddles have all resolved more or less into much smaller air cells at the top, with very small saddle dips. Bad news is that, as you might expect, there's still a bit of jiggling (now in ALL of them) as the new smaller configuration of the air cell is not solid. So, I marked as well as I could, gently (there is still an outline of the old boundaries of the air cell - impressive how much it's resolved, but makes it hard to mark if inexperienced like me. Brighter flashlight is on order...), put them all back in, and am not turning ANY of them for now. Looking back at shipped egg guidance - should I try gentle turning after 24 hours or wait even longer in hopes of additional reattachment?

- Ant Farm

 

[gotro17]

Good morning @Sally Sunshine...and friends! Two questions;
1. Are you able
To zoom in and see the AC here? It
Is Day 14. How do you think they look?
2. With so many compromised AC, I'm not planning on going over 65% at lockdown. I how do I set these bad AC eggs- AC facing up, right? Thank you!!! Shellee