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

[BullChick]

Life is so nauseating!

 

[mlm Mike]

Good morning Liz, Mike, and Kathy.

Snow is supposed to let up mid-day, but temps today only forecast for high 30's.
Tomorrow we are supposed to return to our regularly scheduled weather, high 60's.
That's our typical spring here, a week of high 60-70's, then one day of snow.
Until the end of May, the jet stream is never stable enough to prevent the occasional snow day.

The 60's sound nice.

I have a lg 9300 and it was working fine and the power went out for a second and it changed my setting up and it spiked to 110 last night and I got to it quickly

Was it plugged into a surge protector?

 

[Sherry 928]

You did not kill them by opening the incubator. What is your current temp and humidity?

-Kathy

It is 98- 99 degrees and right now 71 percent humidity...when I opened it, it went up from 66 to 71 ...I know i have atleast one duck thru the air sac...but I don't know if they are shrink wrapped..I had a chick pip as I opened the incubator...and it was shrink wrapped and I helped it..and so far it is ok....still half in the egg but open enough to get out...and the ducks beak is thru the air sac but not pipped...if it was a really high temp and these two are still alive do you think the others are probably still alive? and do you think they shrink wrapped if they had not pipped

 

[mlm Mike]

I took the top off a little to let out some heat....I was in lockdown on day 20 and I saw no pips and the humidity had gone to 80 percent and it dropped to like 71 and I thought that was ok since it was too high anyway. I tried to lower the temp without opening and it kept going up even with the incubator set on 80 degrees...so I did open it a little and then I noticed a chick pipping at that momemt.

Have you unplugged it at all since the power outage? Also is there a way to reset to factory settings?

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Some ducks take longer than chicks to pip externally. When you candled it, did it look like it's beak could touch the shell?

-Kathy

 

[Chaos18]

You are the reason I put the eye roll in there!

I figured as much and I didn't want to disappoint you.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I didn't have any tubing on hand, but I had a plastic drinking straw & small funnel that worked. Cut off the excess length of the straw, forced one end onto the end of the funnel, taped it in place...good to go.

 

[Sherry 928]

The 60's sound nice.


Was it plugged into a surge protector?

no and I never thought of that ...that would eliminate the power surge to my incubator...thank you...and another question...everyone says add water to the incubator thru a straw or something and not open during lockdown ..and I do that if it drops humidity to low...but then it spikes when the moisture goes up. how do I stop that ...can I an cold water?

 

[BantyChooks]

I figured as much and I didn't want to disappoint you.

I wouldn't mind it just this once!

 

[Chaos18]

I wouldn't mind it just this once!