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

[daxigait]

@Sally Sunshine down the 48 after candeling.
BTW its the fifth of March

 

[chicken hawk 33]

CH keep out of the bator or I will NOT help you at all anymore!!!  

what is your problem????

I refuse to have you continue opening that thing and then expecting us to help when you have issues because of it! 

I am DONE with this childness of yours, you want help or not?

if you dont listen I AM DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


DONE

I AM SORRY.I WAS ADDING AATER TO THE SPONGES

 

[BullChick]

I think the question on everyone's mind, is, "why are they dried out?"
The rest of us are able to keep the humidity stable for the last three days without opening our incubators.

 

[Chaos18]

I AM SORRY.I WAS ADDING AATER TO THE SPONGES

So if you HAVE to add water water than add water and DON'T touch the eggs. But you shouldn't have to add water in the first place. And if you do you should add it through the vent holes.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hey guys! I have been using your thread as a valuable tool as this is my first year incubating. I have two young children and they do so enjoy it as well. I have a few pure bred English Lavender Orpington eggs in the incubator right now, and I must say, I'm getting a little worried, we are on day 23 and still no results, not even the distant view of any piping. I hate to open the incubator to candle them, however when I checked them on Day 18, they all seemed very active. Any thoughts? I know that my egg shells tend to be pretty "hard", my ladies are very good layers and get plenty of protein, and I'm wondering if that is impeding the hatch?

In addition, I have been attempting to "perfect" my incubation chart, I like to keep a tally of each egg, the daily temperature and humidity, etc, but I have yet to get it quite where I need it. Anyone have any good resources for me?

We must have been posting at the same time and I missed this! @ChickenChick231 welcome and I am sorry!

Kids enjoy incubation TONS!! ELavs!! good for you they are beautiful birds!!

prolonged hatch means low bator temps and or high humidity

did you calibrate your thermo/hygros? what bator and fan or no fan?

@Sally Sunshine down the 48 after candeling.
BTW its the fifth of March

good grief and then I fix it to 5 and leave the 3 so you now have a bday on 3/53 I swear I am a knucklehead of late!!

 

[kwhites634]

I think the question on everyone's mind, is, "why are they dried out?"
The rest of us are able to keep the humidity stable for the last three days without opening our incubators.

Thinking someone installed the automatic, timer-controlled, hydraulic, piston-driven 'bator lid remover I suggested last week.

 

[Studio Chick]

Hey guys! I have been using your thread as a valuable tool as this is my first year incubating. I have two young children and they do so enjoy it as well. I have a few pure bred English Lavender Orpington eggs in the incubator right now, and I must say, I'm getting a little worried, we are on day 23 and still no results, not even the distant view of any piping. I hate to open the incubator to candle them, however when I checked them on Day 18, they all seemed very active. Any thoughts? I know that my egg shells tend to be pretty "hard", my ladies are very good layers and get plenty of protein, and I'm wondering if that is impeding the hatch?

In addition, I have been attempting to "perfect" my incubation chart, I like to keep a tally of each egg, the daily temperature and humidity, etc, but I have yet to get it quite where I need it. Anyone have any good resources for me?

This may have been asked, I haven't read all the way through this morning. Did you count the day you set them as day zero? When I was hatching my English Orps, they would sometime wait til late day 21, and early 22. Good luck! You are in the right place, there are a lot of good people here with a lot of knowledge.

 

[Chicknlvn]

So I am setting my first hatch this Saturday and I asked a friend to bring me a few of her eggs since she has different breeds... which she did but they are all dirty one is awful and one has what appears to be a crack but not really maybe just the shell. My questions are a) Should I even bother trying to hatch the one that has the slight crack or whatever it is and b) what should I do with the ones that are dirty.. I've seen to wash and let sit and I've seen to not bother cleaning just set. Any help would be greatly appreciated- I'm a newbie to hatching

 

[Studio Chick]

This may have been asked, I haven't read all the way through this morning. Did you count the day you set them as day zero? When I was hatching my English Orps, they would sometime wait til late day 21, and early 22. Good luck! You are in the right place, there are a lot of good people here with a lot of knowledge.

ETA: Sally and I must have been typing at the same time! I'll go back to reading now

 

[chicken hawk 33]

MS,@Sally SunshineIM SORRY