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

[Sally Sunshine]

Heather when are your ancona due?

 

[Penny Hen]

Well my STC-1000 is holding temp. It turns on more than I like so I am boiling some rocks to add some thermal sinks. I will start my eggs today: 15 silver coturnix and 2 Olive Eggers, and 2 Sapphire/Bantam Wyandotte cross. My Twentse , Niederheiner and Orust eggs should be here next Monday. So staggered hatch. I'm officially crazy.

My good friend called last night and told me that she couldn't resist and got me one of those tiny Chinese bubble bators. I reckon that that might work as a back up. This way I can hatch my daughters button quail up in the main house where she can see them. She is in a wheelchair and getting around to the basement is an ordeal. I will try to get a batch of them to go into this for the actual HAL. The chance came up to get this assortment of super rares at a price I could afford so I had to jump on it.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Well my STC-1000 is holding temp. It turns on more than I like so I am boiling some rocks to add some thermal sinks. I will start my eggs today: 15 silver coturnix and 2 Olive Eggers, and 2 Sapphire/Bantam Wyandotte cross. My Twentse , Niederheiner and Orust eggs should be here next Monday. So staggered hatch. I'm officially crazy.

My good friend called last night and told me that she couldn't resist and got me one of those tiny Chinese bubble bators. I reckon that that might work as a back up. This way I can hatch my daughters button quail up in the main house where she can see them. She is in a wheelchair and getting around to the basement is an ordeal. I will try to get a batch of them to go into this for the actual HAL. The chance came up to get this assortment of super rares at a price I could afford so I had to jump on it.

have you read what they said about placement of the probe?

 

[Pensmaster]

A tip how to rase the humitiy in your DIY bator:
In my new DIY I have fixed 2 water reservoirs wich have an alouminum pipe that stick out of them through
The bator lid, to replenish water withaout openinig the lid.
Yesterday they enterted to lockdown an i had some low humidity problems.
The only thing that fixed the problem was an Aquarium pump that I conected to one of The pipes. This pump enters air to the water and the bubbles raised the humidity!
See pic:

Benny
Go one step farther put a small fish tank heater in that jar of water. Warmer air for more consistent air temperature in incubator especially if room is cooler and more humidity. The heater I use is a metal case not glass so it's stronger. Water height must be watched so heater does not malfunction
Peter

 

[kwhites634]

X2 but add a few drops of eucalyptus essential oil and if you have any rosemary, add that to the water too. It'll really clear you out.
GO TUCKER! YES! Glad you finally got him in with them

Bet he finally understands now what all that fuss was about, trying to get him out. You should have no lack of fertile eggs from now on lol. Does he seem thrilled now? What about the girls, what do they think of him?

They can't run fast enough or far enough!

I didn't have a fertility problem; I just wasn't sure, because he came with the pullets last Spring, that he wasn't their brother. Besides, I want darker eggs. I was also tired of having to watch him like a hawk, in case he got brave. Even surrounded by hens, in a strange environment for only an hour, Tucker didn't hesitate to come up & eat from my hand! What a difference! I think Tucker must have a built-in calendar; today's exactly 2 weeks since he came here! Thank you.

 

[Amymommy3]

Okay. Newbie here.. I posted this on a new thread but I think it got lost. Can anyone advise me with this?
I am incubating my first hatch of my own chicken eggs with a Farm Innovator 4200 forced air model with automatic turner. Today is day 7, so I candled and I have found one egg is upside down! Ooops.. the shape was hard to tell the fat end when we put it in. The air space is on the bottom and the moving chick and blood vessels are on top. I stuck it back the way it was. So is this a problem? Should I flip him over or just see what happens? Currently has 35-40% humidity and temp pretty consistently at 99-100. On the exciting side, I had 19/22 alive... for my first time.. I wasn't sure what to expect. I better build a bigger brooder~!

 

[jwlpoultry]

Okay. Newbie here.. I posted this on a new thread but I think it got lost. Can anyone advise me with this?
I am incubating my first hatch of my own chicken eggs with a Farm Innovator 4200 forced air model with automatic turner. Today is day 7, so I candled and I have found one egg is upside down! Ooops.. the shape was hard to tell the fat end when we put it in. The air space is on the bottom and the moving chick and blood vessels are on top. I stuck it back the way it was. So is this a problem? Should I flip him over or just see what happens? Currently has 35-40% humidity and temp pretty consistently at 99-100. On the exciting side, I had 19/22 alive... for my first time.. I wasn't sure what to expect. I better build a bigger brooder~!

I normally flip mine to air cell up if I do make a mistake and it normally doesn't have any effect especially at day 7

 

[Akrnaf2]

In addition to the day vs. night thing stimulating production, I wanted to add a few things.
Chickens don't have to see the light. Blind chickens can also detect a change in day length.
Light penetrates the skull and thereby still is detected by the pineal gland.

Chickens detect light in a broader wavelength than humans.
Humans detect light in a range of about 400 to 660 nm. Chickens detect light from about 300-750 nm.
Humans peak response to light sensitivity is from 550-560 nm. Chicken have 3 peaks of light perception at 440, 550 and 610 nm.
Spectrum wavelength determines the color of the light.
Humans have retinal cones that can detect red, yellow and green.
Chickens have an additional double cone that is thought to allow tracking of movement.
Red light at about 650 nm penetrates the skull and eventually the hypothalamus at somewhere between 5-50 times more efficiently than blue, green or yellow/orange. This makes red light vital for stimulating sexual maturity and egg production. If you've seen the sky at the horizon at dawn and dusk, it can appear red because red penetrates the atmosphere greater than other colors of the spectrum.
So birds outside at dawn and dusk are stimulated more than those locked in the coop at those times.
Incandescent light is good at producing light in the red spectrum.
CFLs while efficient produce little red light.
LEDs produce the most efficient light per energy used and depending on phosphors used can be designed to output in virtually any spectrum desired.
You can look for LEDs in the 650nm range.

Citation:
Prescott, N. B., and C. M. Wathes. “Spectral sensitivity of the domestic fowl (Gallus g. domesticus).” British poultry Science 40.3 (1999): 332–339.

Some comments if I may:
Light is an electromagnetic wave in between the wave length of (399)400-700 nm
So 300 nm is not light but UV radiation.
The energy of the wave is reciprocal to the wave length, short wave( like blue light) Have higher energy than long wave ( like red light). The energy is one of the factors that determine the penetration ability of the wave trough mater. This is way when you dive in the the see the red light is only in the 15-20 meters after this deep only green and blue wave penetrate!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Okay. Newbie here.. I posted this on a new thread but I think it got lost. Can anyone advise me with this?
I am incubating my first hatch of my own chicken eggs with a Farm Innovator 4200 forced air model with automatic turner. Today is day 7, so I candled and I have found one egg is upside down! Ooops.. the shape was hard to tell the fat end when we put it in. The air space is on the bottom and the moving chick and blood vessels are on top. I stuck it back the way it was. So is this a problem? Should I flip him over or just see what happens? Currently has 35-40% humidity and temp pretty consistently at 99-100. On the exciting side, I had 19/22 alive... for my first time.. I wasn't sure what to expect. I better build a bigger brooder~!

Welcome!! yes put the egg air cell up now. sounds like you know what your doing! congrats!! have you calibrated those thermo/hygros?

how do your air cells look for that humidity? they are loosing enough weight?

 

[rIrs roost]

Did bubbles change her name?