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

[kwhites634]

My heated watering dishes with heat lamps aimed on them...froze...

Electric current in the power cord froze up

 

[lazy gardener]

BEAUTIFUL, BENNY EVERYTHING that surrounds you, you see in such beauty!

interesting Benny!

I have responded to your PM my friend!

Morning Phage, hope you have a wonderful day!


Step by Step Guide to ASSISTED Hatching - BackYard Chickens Community go to the when do I assist section, you tap and listen sometimes they can be upsidedown and still alive in there, listening is always good before you move on! see article!


AND MC you have a great life ahead of you, for you have life! Its time to move on and step forward. I know you will, it depends when you decide to do so.

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brrrrr holy smokes that much difference 4 hour drive can make holy holy

STILETTOS!!!!

OMGERED My feed hurt thinking about them!!!

Good morning!

Need opinion about the size of the air cell of my eggs, day 14(red line)




Humidity
Days 1-7 55%-58%
Days 7-11 70%- 72%
Days 11-14 60%

Can't resist commenting on egg shapes: Pic #1: 1, 4, 5, 6, possibly 8 would enter my egg shaped gender id experiment as pullets.

 

[chicknlove]

My heated watering dishes with heat lamps aimed on them...froze...

Move west. Or south. Simple solution.

 

[kwhites634]

Can't resist commenting on egg shapes: Pic #1: 1, 4, 5, 6, possibly 8 would enter my egg shaped gender id experiment as pullets.

Not #2? Very much like #6 to my eye

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Not fit for man nor beast here this morning; don't know how you &
@Auroradream26
 make it. Better you than me  

I'm just glad I don't live in Int. Falls

Electric current in the power cord froze up 

Might be cold enough to freeze electrons...

Move west. Or south. Simple solution.

wife won't budge she'll die in this tiny little town.

 

[kwhites634]

I'm just glad I don't live in Int. Falls
Might be cold enough to freeze electrons...

wife won't budge she'll die in this tiny little town.

Wonder if Niagara Falls is frozen yet. I've seen pics of it frozen

 

[sarah25bear]

I am just seeing a beautiful program on NG wild on the Atacama desert of Chili, and I have learned a wonderful fact. In this very arid desert live a colony of seagulls and they have an adaptation in there eggs that make them suitable to the desert.
There egg shell is much less permeable than outer eggs, so they don't loos as much humidity
In the same rate as other eggs, but, from the outer hand, they don't have a lot of oxygen entering the egg! So they need much longer incubation period, then outer! (30 days vers. 26!)
I think that this fact could be the answer how different eggs can hatch in parts of the planet that have very high or very low ambient humidity!

That is interesting I live in the high dessert and many of my friends live in the desert I will have to wait and see how this hatch goes! I am learning lots from reading everything you guys are talking about.

 

[stryker]

Wonder if Niagara Falls is frozen yet. I've seen pics of it frozen

It does not appear to be frozen yet. Kind of cool that I can see what it looks like all the way from North Dakota! The family went on vacation a couple of years there and it was AWESOME!


This live cam is cool,,,

http://www.earthcam.com/canada/niagarafalls/?cam=niagarafalls_str

this one is ok as well..

http://www.niagarafallslive.com/niagara_falls_webcam.htm

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I am just seeing a beautiful program on NG wild on the Atacama desert of Chili, and I have learned a wonderful fact. In this very arid desert live a colony of seagulls and they have an adaptation in there eggs that make them suitable to the desert.
There egg shell is much less permeable than outer eggs, so they don't loos as much humidity
In the same rate as other eggs, but, from the outer hand, they don't have a lot of oxygen entering the egg! So they need much longer incubation period, then outer! (30 days vers. 26!)
I think that this fact could be the answer how different eggs can hatch in parts of the planet that have very high or very low ambient humidity!

Selective evolution. I'm still trying to figure out the purpose of different colored eggs in chickens. Perhaps matching the nesting material or surrounding flora.
And as you said, the eggs that don't lose as much moisture is related to more arid climates.

Congrats, CH!
See now what everyone one has been trying to tell you? You went to bed last night, and the chicks did their own thing without you while you slept!
They will hatch 99% of the time if you leave them be. The other 1% is mother natures way of messing with us!

Or just weren't meant to hatch. Even with tens of thousands of dollars in medical care, some babies don't live. 200 years ago, a high percentage of babies died in childbirth or shortly thereafter.

CH, you may have been joking with Sally, but not everyone saw your comments that way.
Sally's response to that comment, yes I was here and read it, was also very clear that she did not find your comment humorous.
You have to be careful what you post in a public forum, even if you are joking.

It is hard joking in the written word without emojis.

In Cambodya they have a dish that they deep fry a hall chick, feathers, gut, beak, EVERY thing!

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Good morning and hugs.

Oh I hope they are fertile!!! YAY lockdown!! bators are still holding well?



Shipped eggs..... 100.5-101 calibrated temps, typically LF eggs starting with a 30% humidity for my fan speeds/bators

it depends on the age of them, and what air cells are like. I like to set them as soon as possible as they are already old when they get here.

I candle upright when I get them and mark air cells immediately. Incubate upright.

Then I let them get to room temp where the bators are, and I will set after 6-12 hours if the air cells are pretty good, and start turning the next day.


HOWEVER, the ones that are wiggly jiggly loose I let sit a day or two not turning in the incubator,

and the rollers I also set in the bator, I dont touch at all until day 10 and decide what to do with them if they are alive.


ONLY candle from above, and try not to lift them or move them, dont go candling any shipped egg on its side or moving it upside down!
its best to keep them in the bator to candle. And I only really do a candle at day 7-10 depending on the shape.

Why 1-1.5 F high incubation temps for shipped eggs?

Is this good.we didn't have paper towels.but napkins

That's a start but they'll tear them up in no time.
At least napkins start with good traction.

The final numbers are in! ( I think) Day 22 !!
STYROBATOR COOLER BATOR

SHIPPED
6/7 7/9


LOCAL
8/8 6/8

TOTAL HATCHED TOTAL HATCHED

14/15 13/17
93% 76%

In my final notes I would like to add. I have been hatching out of my styro (Hovabator 1588 forced air) many times. I know how to get the temp I want and the eggs were in an automatic turner. I didn't open the bator or touch the eggs much at all. I also know exactly what to do to get the humidity I want and don't have to make a lot of adjustments.

In the Cooler, this was my first time incubating eggs in it. I had some issues I had to work out right off in the beginning. I'm going to make some adjustments (bigger fan) first off. I think my humidity was a bit high during the hatch but I was afraid to open it up and adjust it so I left it. I think this was a great learning experience and (with minor adjustments) I'm ready to hatch again!

The local eggs came to me fresh (within 6 days) I did have quite a few clears. I had set 24 and only 16 went in to lockdown.
The shipped eggs were amazing. They came from Papas Poultry and were delivered in 2 days. They traveled from Redding CA to Portland OR. The aircells were all small and intact. I ordered a doz but got many extras! My totals of shipped were 18 set and 16 went into lockdown. Of the 16 in lockdown 14 hatched!

Good record keeping.
When you say clears, do you do an eggtopsy to see if there was no development (infertile) or if they failed in the first few days?

This is exactly what happened! I was trying to control the Thermo by the reading of my spot check inside my water wiggler. Temp swings all over! I was ready to throw in the towel with the whole hatch!

If the controller applies power to the heat element as either on or off rather than incrementally, there will always be big temperature swings. Especially with a near instant read thermometer like the spot check. I adjust so that the thermostat kicks on when near my preferred temperature.

if they keep place

They won't.

My heated watering dishes with heat lamps aimed on them...froze...

It was so cold there, you probably need something to heat from below.
Do you have access to a magnetic engine block heater? You could put it on a small piece of sheet metal and place the water fount on that.
Another option is making a ring of paver blocks with a heat source in the center and the water above that.

 

[BantyChooks]

I candled, I'll post the results in a minute. Not good.