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

[DwayneNLiz]

It was very funny - after the fact. I still give her a hard time about it.

My son was run off the road on the way home at night and ended up in a creek bottom in some deep brush. Had he lost consciousness, no one would have ever found him. He climbed the hill and flagged down the police who took him to the hospital. This was about 2 minutes from home. The car was totaled. Standing on the side of the road you would never had known there was a car down there. That one wasn't bad.
It was his fall from an 80 foot cliff that was really dicey but he survived.

Losing quotes happens to me all the time too. Sometimes I'll quote a couple and have to go run off to do things. When I come back, most or all are gone.

I always try to have plenty of space inside in case I can't get them out on time. I do from time to time squeeze 4 or 5 into a space intended for 2. It hasn't been a problem but the windows are huge so plenty of fresh air and sufficient roost space.

I sometimes wake in a panic wondering if I locked all the coops cause I can't remember.
Near the top of my list of 100 projects that need to get done soon are automatic coop doors.

Holy cow!! 80' cliff???!! No thanks, my daughter is going into a bubble the next time I see her!!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Not even one molecule!
But my government Thake the liberty to import 70 to 100 milions egg a year from Turkey and Spain without even blinking!

That's crazy, it must be really hard for lineage

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

No progress on the last two duck eggs that are pipped. The hatcher person is checking on them - both still alive and seem ok. It's good it's via webcam - I find myself having those same "urge to help" feelings that need to be suppressed...

Edit to add: It's so hot and humid - trying to work on the growout pen, but had to flee inside for a little while...

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@kwhites634
how far is new windsor from you??

 

[Akrnaf2]

@kwhites634

how far is new windsor from you?? 

It is in another continent!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

It is in another continent!

it sure would be from you

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I'm not sure how long.
I think I figured out what the problem was.
I was taking the temperature in one of the corner air holes(temp 92). I moved it to the opposite side and the temperature was 98.
I turned it up and one side was 101 and the other side was 95.
I figured either one side of the heat element failed or there was another problem.
Yesterday I had laid the 20 eggs due to hatch on one side and all the eggs that were in 10 days or less on the other side. The collective embryonic metabolism of the older embryos raised the temperature of one side affecting the thermostat and lowering the temperature on the other side.
As a remedy, I pulled all the eggs, put the mature ones in a ring around the outside of the incubator and put all the others in the middle. Temperatures seem to be a lot more consistent throughout.

After redistributing the eggs, all seemed relatively well with most parts of the incubator reading between 100 and 101.
I decided to let it settle for a couple hours and just checked. It was 105.4.
I turned it down a bit, took the lid off for about 10 minutes and checked again. It rapidly shot up to 99 and climbing. I took the lid off again.

Right now it is reading between 99 and 100.4 depending on what part of the incubator. What a pain in the A.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

After redistributing the eggs, all seemed relatively well with most parts of the incubator reading between 100 and 101.
I decided to let it settle for a couple hours and just checked. It was 105.4.
I turned it down a bit, took the lid off for about 10 minutes and checked again. It rapidly shot up to 99 and climbing. I took the lid off again.

Right now it is reading between 99 and 100.4 depending on what part of the incubator. What a pain in the A.

crazy incubator needs to calm down!

 

[Akrnaf2]

I'm not sure how long.
I think I figured out what the problem was.
I was taking the temperature in one of the corner air holes(temp 92). I moved it to the opposite side and the temperature was 98.
I turned it up and one side was 101 and the other side was 95.
I figured either one side of the heat element failed or there was another problem.
Yesterday I had laid the 20 eggs due to hatch on one side and all the eggs that were in 10 days or less on the other side. The collective embryonic metabolism of the older embryos raised the temperature of one side affecting the thermostat and lowering the temperature on the other side.
As a remedy, I pulled all the eggs, put the mature ones in a ring around the outside of the incubator and put all the others in the middle. Temperatures seem to be a lot more consistent throughout.

After redistributing the eggs, all seemed relatively well with most parts of the incubator reading between 100 and 101.
I decided to let it settle for a couple hours and just checked. It was 105.4.
I turned it down a bit, took the lid off for about 10 minutes and checked again. It rapidly shot up to 99 and climbing. I took the lid off again.

Right now it is reading between 99 and 100.4 depending on what part of the incubator. What a pain in the A.

Did you clean the sensor?

 

[BusyBearMama]

Pictures soon! Just got 3 more black ones out of the hatcher- man it's just so humid in there - this heat wave I figured opening it maybe the remaining 15? Eggs won't drown. Still just 4 brown but 2 light ones and the rest I lost count of are blue and black still. This year I've only had to do anything for 3-4 of the well over 30 hatchlings in the last few weeks so I'm pleased but that the humidity is spinning in the other bator on day 3!! Is 40 bad bad now I can't seem to get it to stay down any lower right now it's just too muggy. I keep thinking when they fluff I will sex and photograph but then there's more and I get busy hopefully I will get a good look at my favorites soon. Husband man said don't forget to sex them!! Cause I failed last week lol. Hopefully no one got a rooster i offered to put any in the meat pen but I feel bad if they do, we like to let them grow mostly before selling since people here usually like that but man I'm having trouble not being all mine mine mine mine lol