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

[seramamama34]

its digital if that makes a difference

 

[Jessimom]

Grounded hot chili, in your chicken feed 1-3 tbs for 1 kg, will make a wonderful worms preventer, and the Kapseacin in it will give a boost the the chicken metabolism! And the bonus is wonderful orange-red yolk!

How hot of a chili? When I through food scraps in with the chicks, they stay away from the hot stuff. Jalapeno hot, or habanero hot, or somewhere in the middle?

Gotcha!! you all feeling better now Jess? Good luck with the eggies!!

did you calibrate the unit or the new hygro?

Calibration is a MUST:
WHY YOU SHOULD CALIBRATE and link to HOW: post #545 also see calibration in Hatching Eggs 101 TEMPS SECTION
Calibrate the hygrometer a video post #35121
EASY Calibration post #19746 bottom of post #20480
How to calibrate STICK type FOOD Thermometers post #27294
Hygrometer calibration Benny's method post #36265

Thanks for posting this. It just reminded me that last night before I went to bed, I threw a couple hygrometers into a bag with a cup of wet salt and I forgot to check it this morning. Ooops....

 

[seramamama34]

How hot of a chili? When I through food scraps in with the chicks, they stay away from the hot stuff. Jalapeno hot, or habanero hot, or somewhere in the middle?

Thanks for posting this. It just reminded me that last night before I went to bed, I threw a couple hygrometers into a bag with a cup of wet salt and I forgot to check it this morning. Ooops....

So you need to calibrate the unit too? So now what if the eggs are already in? OH goodness

 

[Akrnaf2]

Grounded hot chili, in your chicken feed 1-3 tbs for 1 kg, will make a wonderful worms preventer, and the Kapseacin in it will give a boost the the chicken metabolism! And the bonus is wonderful orange-red yolk!

How hot of a chili?  When I through food scraps in with the chicks, they stay away from the hot stuff.  Jalapeno hot, or habanero hot, or somewhere in the middle?

 
Gotcha!! you all feeling better now Jess?  Good luck with the eggies!!

did you calibrate the unit or the new hygro?

Calibration is a MUST:
[COLOR=008080]WHY YOU SHOULD CALIBRATE and link to HOW: post #545 also  see calibration in Hatching Eggs 101 TEMPS SECTION[/COLOR]
[COLOR=008080]Calibrate the hygrometer a video[/COLOR] post #35121
[COLOR=008080]EASY Calibration[/COLOR] post #19746 bottom of post #20480
[COLOR=008080]How to calibrate STICK type FOOD Thermometers[/COLOR] post #27294
[COLOR=008080]Hygrometer calibration Benny's method[/COLOR] post #36265

Thanks for posting this.  It just reminded me that last night before I went to bed, I threw a couple hygrometers into a bag with a cup of wet salt and I forgot to check it this morning. Ooops....

I give them the hotest powder that I can fined! I use a brand that we call it " Soudania" and it is one of the hottest! I dont know what is Scobil rate but it is high! I dont mean to the freash fruit, but to the drynd ground ones- Paprika!

 

[kwhites634]

@Sally Sunshine -update for me. Last hatch is over. 18 eggs in lockdown now.

Last I knew you were waiting for the last poult to hatch out of last week's batch, I think. That one ever join the party?

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Last I knew you were waiting for the last poult to hatch out of last week's batch, I think. That one ever join the party?

Yes it did. I had to help it since it wasn't getting anywhere on its own. Turned out to be a little cross beak/cleft beak and that's why it couldn't hatch. It's all good though. I found someone to adopt him and he should be going to his new home tomorrow

 

[BantyChooks]

No. It was brand new so I didnt think I needed to do that?

Yep, you do. They can be as much as 5 degrees off right out of the box! What brand is yours? Sorry if I missed it.
-Banti

 

[kwhites634]

Yes it did. I had to help it since it wasn't getting anywhere on its own. Turned out to be a little cross beak/cleft beak and that's why it couldn't hatch. It's all good though. I found someone to adopt him and he should be going to his new home tomorrow

O.K....Now that you mention a crossed beak, I do remember that one. I swear I'm losing it!

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

 

 

One more question, when I went home and checked it on lunch it was at the highest on 100.4 it seems to keep fluctuating and sometimes high is 99.7 and some times it goes higher. Should I still adjust a tad to make warmer or see what happens. This is so nerve racking!

do you know what it does in the middle of the night?

And what about the chicken? Do you think she is mesuraing temp and hum.?

And still we have chickens for millennia!

do you know what the average hatch rate is per hen?   find out and come back and tell us!  I already know,  oh, and I am not talking about hens that get babied either. 

It is in between 35%-45%, it ofcores depend on the breed, and outer Physical Features, but this selection have a purpose To select the fittest! !

 

[stryker]

Yes it did. I had to help it since it wasn't getting anywhere on its own. Turned out to be a little cross beak/cleft beak and that's why it couldn't hatch. It's all good though. I found someone to adopt him and he should be going to his new home tomorrow

Pics, I never saw a cross/clef beak bird! That is if you have any.