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

[BantyChooks]

 
Let them be...nothing to loose. takes longer for the internal temp of the egg to drop than the temp outside the 'bator.

Is the interior temp of the egg the same temp as the outside 'bator air?  

Not always, from what I have read... Might depend on the distance of the heating element & bator size.. Internal should be 99.8; depending on still air vs forced air "outside air" is about 100.5 forced, (Some run 99.5 but thats a bit low) or 101-102.(still)

From H101:

Probe thermometer & water weasel (Water Wiggler, Water Snake) found on Amazon or Ebay make for EXCELLENT internal temp guides! The perfect internal temperature of an embryo is 99.5 (NOTE: Sally told me 99.8 many a time, dunno if this is an error?) degrees. If you can't find a water wiggler you can make your own with ziplock filled with water folded in half and insert the probe in the center middle.

Correct @Sally Sunshine?

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Dirt preceded me a little. So did the 1st rainstorm, but I remember when the puddles dried up

Tough times... just glad you survived!!!

 

[daxigait]

Am I remembering correctly? Did you say earlier that you lost a pullet that wasn't one of the group that started dropping right away? Was she in with them when she died, and how old was she?

she was not with them. She was part of my January 21 hatch. I took her and several others out to the chicken tractor to put them in with the Christmas day chicks already out there. I don't know if she got hurt in the box transport, scared, did something once in the coop, or something happened with the older chicks, but there were no obvious signs of violence. They were in a separate brooder by the new chicks from Thursday till this morning.

 

[kwhites634]

 

[venymae]

Quick question. Is a rounded 2x4 the right size for a roost?

 

[kwhites634]

Is the interior temp of the egg the same temp as the outside 'bator air?

I would assume so, as long as the eggs have been "cooking" for a while...at least until day 18 or so. Not positive, but makes sense to me.

 

[Chickymomma722]

What about the air sac? Does the egg look normal? What i have researched it doesnt look like anything i find for a day 5 or 7. Thanks guys!! I think i will up the temp by .5!

 

[Penny Hen]

Someone, either here or on the EHAL thread asked to see the egg rack that I was making to go into my homemade turner tray. Now I made one critical error. I estimated the size of the coturnix quail too narrow so this rack is going to be for button quail. I also suggest that you make them not as one big block that fill the whole tray but in segments of 12 or 18 so that if you are only setting 25 then the entire tray is not used up and you can fit other sized racks in.

So button quail size is 3/4 inch PVC pipe. Coturnix quail is 1 inch. Bobs and Jumbo Cots are most likely going to be 1 1/4 to 1 1/2. There is one person on Ebay selling some monster Cot eggs that are almost 2 inches long.

So I had a clamp and razor devise for cutting PEX pipe witch is softer. It only scores the PVC but it helps you keep your sawing even when you cut with a hacksaw. By all means if you have a jig saw use it. I am going to see if they make a clamp cutter for PVC because that would be so much easier. I made the rings 1/2 inch thick. For bigger eggs that measuerment should be increased but I havent figured out by how much yet. I am thinking it should cover at least half of the eggs length or just a bit more or you will have eggs popping out at the sharp angle. When I get the 1 inch pipe I am going to increase the thickness to 3/4 inch for the coturnix eggs.

So you saw you pipe up into rings and then you glue them together in pairs.

Then you glue the pairs together to make diamond shapes.


Then you glue the quads together until you get the dementions you need. I suggest you leave some pairs not made into quads so if you need only one row more to make it fit you don't have to tear any quads apart.


As you can see clothes pins make the perfect clamp to hold the pieces together while they dry. This right here will hold 36 button quail eggs

 

[Penny Hen]

Oops, double post.

 

[kwhites634]

she was not with them. She was part of my January 21 hatch. I took her and several others out to the chicken tractor to put them in with the Christmas day chicks already out there. I don't know if she got hurt in the box transport, scared, did something once in the coop, or something happened with the older chicks, but there were no obvious signs of violence. They were in a separate brooder by the new chicks from Thursday till this morning.

Hmmm....this case get curiouser & curiouser all the time.