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

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: There you are!!!!!!

Thank you for the pictures. I obviously need a better flashlight. I think my temps were a little low and they were just starting slow. I upped the temp and have veins in 6 of 6.
Quote: Good, you understand that fan vs no fan get different temps? and you should never go with the thermo/hygro that comes with the unit, and calibrate all thermo hygros?
@Torch404 I may have already gave you that info, I cant remember!

Hey, I have a question bc I'm really concerned about my eggs. I have a homemade incubator. Just made another one in hopes that it works better... Well, what happens was the temp got way too high, so I unplugged the light; I forgot about it and it got down to 77 degrees! I candled my eggs and they seem to be growing and normal. My new incubator seems to be keeping a better temp (99/100) and humidity (about 60) so I'm hoping them getting too cold didn't hurt them. I started incubation Saturday night so this would be about the 4th or 5th day. I'm SO WORRIED that I killed my babies! Had this ever happened to anyone?! Did ANY survive? These are Legbar eggs (12 cost me $12) so it's really important that they live! Do you want candled pics? Please let me know if this happened to any of you.

What is the maximum and minimum range of temp I can go before killing the chicks? post #12473
MY EGGS ARE COOKING TEMP TOO HIGH HELP post #14649
TEMP SPIKE DID I KILL THEM! read bottom post #8814
@ValliDorian

Hola gang & fellow hatchacholics.

COchix reporting for hatching action.

picked up 1 doz. of my hatching eggs from a friend, here is my set up. Had a few questions.








1. Should I be worried about the rooms humidity that things the eggs and bator are in? I have the blinds shut, door closed. It's a colder room In the house. It is currently 64 degrees and 35% humidity.Lights on or off? Am I being too picky? Worried mama

2. Got the main bator up and running with two hygrometers. It is a Farmer Innovators 4200 with fan and electric turner. The eggs are on the turner sitting on the base of my extra bator at room temp. I need to find out the egg dates but my guess is less than 7 days. Got the turner running, should it be? Drove down a fairly bumpy farm dirt road, I kid you not. Then to the main road. Should I be adding water to the main bator now? I am running it overnight, it has been completely dismantled and disinfected and reassembled. I ran it after that for 3 days dry and marked my knob on the bator. Picking up more hatching eggs tomorrow that are 7 days old and have been on a turner. I was hoping to integrate (assuming thing are all running smoothly) eggs into turner. Then set eggs tomorrow night or Friday am? Suggestions on timing, I am a newbie

Thanks gang......

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soooooo purdy!!!! The important thing is temp FLUX! the less room temp flux the less bator flux! You can candle them, if air cells are normal treat them as normal and start turning at set!

you calibrated thermo hygros I think right?
I would run 30-35 humidity until day 5 or 7 candle and adjust as necessary. @COChix

What temp are you running, and FAN MODEL?

@Sally Sunshine
I received my SWH, I pulled the plug on them Sunay March 6th, they were all clear except for 1 blood ring. I received a 2nd batch of SWH today and will set them in 2 days.
I have in my bators right now:
12 Pekin duck
3 F/W Runner duck
2 Seabright
2 NH
5 WCBP
7 LH
2 Wyan/Aus mix

Thank you

I am sorry about the SWH!!! that sucks!!! What great set now!! AWESOME!!!! Updated you!!! GOOD LUCK!!!

 

[gotro17]

oh good grief you're at it again! Lol You need to come over and get a good look at my new chicks. You always choose good names! Even though, I don't name mine I let you pick them cuz I'm lame. I forgot the last name you told me to call one of them though and it was cool!

Did you steal our chickens @CountryLovin???

Our Girls are about 6 months old:
Lavender Orpingtons- Laverne and Shirley
Golden Laced Wyandotte- Dottie
Cream Legbars- French Fry and Wynona
CL Boys- Dash and Simon
Lemon Cuckoo English Orp- Olivia
Gold Sex Linked- Goldie
EE- Julie
Australorp- V.V.
Bielefelder Girls- Natasha, Maisey, Kirby and Regina *Boys: Big Handsome and Apollo
BC Marans: Sadie and Sasha *Boys- Ringo and Clint
... Respectively

 

[bubba slak]

A lot of times, people will use a cabinet like this and set 1 shelf of eggs each week, and when each shelf hits day 18, the eggs are removed and put into a separate hatcher cabinet. This keeps the 18 day incubator much cleaner because nothing actually hatches in it. If you did want to hatch in it, I would just make some kind of basket near the bottom, or maybe put some sort of screen and front ledge on the existing shelf to keep the chicks from being able to fall through.

I have a little giant incubator but don't have much success with however I do use it for eggs when a hen hatches and I put the remaining eggs in it and hatch them out.

 

[attimus]

@sally sunshine you mentioned a second fan to someone, I believe I'll need to install another with the size of my bator. Do I keep it in the same airflow as the other?

 

[BantyChooks]

OH my goodness!!!!!
I just did a quick candle- I lost count, but 5+ egs have nice veining.... Incluing one of Jace's!!!!
I didn't do a full candle, just set candler down on top of most of em... I was too exited to do all of em!! e e
They are a bit light to try and get pics of, but I'll have pichers day 7!!!!!!!!!!

I cannot belive this!!!
-Banti

 

[casportpony]

SOS!  Day 23. I have a peep trying so hard to escape its shell. Pipped on the evening of the 21st. Very late last night at the 24 hour mark, I attempted to help with the zip. It appeared then that the gray membrane was like rubber. I had not opened the membrane at all, though there was an opening in it near the beak, only continued with the small zip around the egg. This little one has continued to chirp the entire time! I figured I had lost it last night, but this morning still chirping. I just attempted to help out more, but the membrane is Glued to its head. At the bottom of the shell there is soggy yolk! What in the world to do now? It just keeps chirping!

@Sally Sunshine

 

[Chaos18]

OH my goodness!!!!!
I just did a quick candle- I lost count, but 5+ egs have nice veining.... Incluing one of Jace's!!!!
I didn't do a full candle, just set candler down on top of most of em... I was too exited to do all of em!!

They are a bit light to try and get pics of, but I'll have pichers day 7!!!!!!!!!!

I cannot belive this!!!

-Banti

 

[Sally Sunshine]

sorry to hear about yesterday Benny you are strong! Never Defeated!

I dreamt about shipped eggs that cracked as I unpacked them.
Need stronger coffee today.
Good morning, y'all.

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Quote: no why would you be?

Quote: Welcome!!! @bubba slak

Quote: Yes I have had lights, if you can get from a breeder and not hatchery they should be HUGE!

this was lucas hen he got feed mill hatchery bird

 

[Chaos18]

sorry to hear about yesterday Benny you are strong! Never Defeated!

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no why would you be?
Welcome!!! @bubba slak

Yes I have had lights, if you can get from a breeder and not hatchery they should be HUGE!

this was lucas hen he got feed mill hatchery bird

No clue, you're the one that said we needed to chat......and everybody knows that when a girl says that the other person is in trouble.

 

[casportpony]

Good morning everyone!

-Kathy