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

[prizepete]

Ok I really need to go get apple sauce going, and do chores, agh!

 

[BantyChooks]

not really I sell them right away, although I have two brooders waiting for pick up, which reminds me I need to text him again ughhh

Ah, okay.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

To much carb. Not inofgh vitamins and minerals!
Add some almonds and nuts and some dry cranberries and you are good!

tree nuts are good

Hi everyone, I'm new and my name is jennifer. I've been lurking a bit but was waiting a little while to introduce myself. I'm about a week in to my first experience incubating and hatching eggs. I have a mix of shipped Ameracaunas, easter egger, olive eggers and black copper marans. I'll probably be in and out. Thanks.

Welcome. Strap yourself in, this thread flies.

I was doing good staying away from the coffee this morning, but that is one thing you guys and gals are no help with

I quit cold turkey 18 months ago and haven't missed it. I just scroll right through all that morning banter and mug pictures.

Hey guys if I put my 2 seperate orders of shipped eggs together ( they are a day apart) together in my new incubator how would I do lockdown?
Edit- guess I should add I've already got them in 2 seperate incubators. They are cheap ones that keep have drastic temp highs and lows. I just bought a new incubator to move them to before they get fried. Just not sure how to do lockdown if the eggs are a day apart.. hope that helps a bit.

A day early or late won't make much difference.
If it happens in the future, just hold the first eggs an extra day and insert them all at the same time.

My approach would be to do lockdown a day early. Others with more experience will probably chime in but it has been a somewhat slow day so far. Keep in mind that a slightly high temp will lean towards a earlier hatch and lower temps tend toward a later hatch. Depending on the temp range it will be more of the average than the highs and lows.

Good point, she could put the early eggs in the cooler one and vice versa.

it seems lots of people here do staggared hatches. All in the same incubator. If you have an auto turner you can remove it day 18 for the first ones wont hurt the second batch to be in lock down a day early. If your other bators are stable enough in temps you could lock down batch 1 in one of them and batch 2 in the one they are currently in.

I do staggered hatches and just did one in a LG. I just couldn't turn eggs for a couple days.

I do have the second incubator but it's temps keep dropping and the other one the temps are getting to high. That's why I ordered the brinsea. Hoping the temps will be more stable..

Avoid the one with the high temps. They will kill quicker than low temps.

I'm not sure I can ever get this LG truly clean.... It had 6 month old quail shells and yolk all over it from a failed hatch, spiderwebs, dirt, a thick layer of dust...... Even the bleach soak I did when I first got it didn't get it all out!

-Banti

Not truly clean but clean enough. It helps to put the rubber shelf liner over the screen. A lot of the debris comes out with that and you can run it through the washing machine or dishwasher.
After the bleach treatment, dry it in the sun.

All six of six hatched.Sox new baby Silkie.I can't believe I got a white from my pair of blacks

keep in mind that white in feathers isn't really a color but a lack of color.

I love the soccer ball, although I never did see it as that, I saw a fluffy chicken!!!!

I take mine out back and wash it with a high pressure nozzle. I put a tarp down, two heavy buckets on either side, so that it stays in place. It gets most of the gunk off. What's left, I scrub it. So far, I only have one discoloration stain that I can't get rid of. I'll have to try peroxide.

For those that use peroxide - do you dilute it? Or use the same strength that we use on our cuts?

Congratulations!! Someone told me that if my black silkie that mated with my white hens, and I got a black chick from them, that roo would carry the white gene. If that roo mates with my white hens (possibly it's mother), there is a chance it will be white. So your black roo must have had a white ancestor.

I do staggered hatches all the time. Mine are usually at least 3 or more days apart. At 3 days or less, I have locked them all down at the same time. I just have to be really careful with the humidity when I take out the dry babies from the earlier hatch.

I try to keep at least 5 days between, that gives me a day or two to clean the incubator and set it up again. Congrats on the new Brinsea. I have 2 of them. One the temps are SPOT ON, the other is off by 1 degree. So make sure you calibrate it!! Good luck!!!



@MotorcycleChick - I'm so sorry about your knee!! I have landed on my knee cap before and that is WAY MORE painful that just hitting your leg. I hope it starts to feel better soon!!!

@daxigait - Again, congrats on the piggy sale! I'm so glad that it wasn't as bad as you expected!!!

I have been taking my daughter to equestrian therapy since she was 3. Horses are AMAZING creatures, and I'm sure they are why she is walking as well as she is.

@Sally Sunshine - Hi!! I'm glad that you seem to be feeling better!! How are the puppies doing?



Well, last night started day 19, and I needed to lock down my latest batch. I was tired, and stayed at a friends house, so my father was kind enough to move the eggs into the lock down bator I had set up the other day. When I candled on day 17, I marked the low points, where I thought they would pip, so he just had to lay them down, with the marks facing up! Only problem is, there were 6 seramas that were only on day 14, in the same bator. He didn't want to move them. I told him where those were situated, but he moved eggs based on the markings on the eggs. He left 8 eggs behind. So, I might have 2 eggs hatch in the turner. It's happened before.....

Happy Hatching everyone!

3+ days between settings helps a lot.


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Do you have a general weekly suggested menu? I wonder if I could try for half as healthy?

My best advice is to avoid any advertised product which would include fast food. Avoid anything in a package with a list of ingredients. Avoid heating foods in plastic containers to prevent the movement of chemicals into the food.
Stick with fresh meat, fresh fish, fresh vegetables, fruit, nuts, mushrooms, grain and cheese.
You'd be surprised at the number of meats and fish that have 'ingredients'.
Always read the packaging carefully.
That way you won't be getting any yummy things like aspartame, maltodextrin, MSG, artificial flavors, propylene glycol, red dye 40, yellow dye 6, yellow 5, red 3, TBHQ, high fructose corn syrup. All of which, I contend lead to ill health because the human body (or any body) doesn't know what to do with them.

Right or wrong that's verbatim what I was going to say after I made sure someone hadn't already addressed it.

How many chicks did you end up with? I got 6 healthy ones. I ended up helping the one that was first to pip but never completed zipping. He didn't make it 4 hours.
I always say I'm not going to help. It never ends well.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Please keep in mind I am a novice but always let shipped eggs acclimate before setting. The mail comes at 2:00p.m. I set the next morning. I would let the first order acclimate a little longer and the second a little less and set late at night.

Yes I let them both set 4 12 hours before I put them in the incubator as per say my incubating books sais lol. thanks

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Hi, I'm coming over from the May Hatch-a-long.

I have 7 eggs in my incubator (after having tossed 2 - 1 blood ring and 1 infertile); due to hatch on June 11.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Ok I went through and I did read everyone's responses but I was unable to respond to everyone. This thread is so active lol. So sorry everyone it may take me a bit to get used to the activity lol. I think I've decided to do a staggered hatch after reading everyone's replies. Thank so much for all the responses. And yes my mind is definitely a bit touched since I started all this lmao. My husband sais I'm pure crazy haha

 

[BantyChooks]

Hi, I'm coming over from the May Hatch-a-long.

I have 7 eggs in my incubator (after having tossed 2 - 1 blood ring and 1 infertile); due to hatch on June 11.

Welcome!!

Ok I went through and I did read everyone's responses but I was unable to respond to everyone. This thread is so active lol. So sorry everyone it may take me a bit to get used to the activity lol. I think I've decided to do a staggered hatch after reading everyone's replies. Thank so much for all the responses. And yes my mind is definitely a bit touched since I started all this lmao. My husband sais I'm pure crazy haha

It is very active! Not many of us manage to actually keep up, lol. Good luck!!
-Banti

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

howdy guys I had a long night....pain was bad....too many pain pills later.....anyway whites glad you got out...I went out the other evening and hooked the biggest walleye I think I ever hooked...unfortunately I was worried about losing out and my drag didn't seem to be working right....well that made me lose it. I was trying to get the net situated because I was by myself and lost the fish at the boat.
Now I realize my motor (tiller control)
Is Broke so I need to fond someone to weld aluminum...but I'm pretty stoked cuz I was fishing only with Berkley Gulp minnows and I bit into several fish that evening all of good size.

So sorry to hear you had a rough night.

@Fire Ant Farm a few didnt quote here but dang Kristin you were on a roll! Thanks for the smiles!

I do have my moments. Not many of them, but I do have them...

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I'm not sure I can ever get this LG truly clean.... It had 6 month old quail shells and yolk all over it from a failed hatch, spiderwebs, dirt, a thick layer of dust...... Even the bleach soak I did when I first got it didn't get it all out!

-Banti

Eeeeeewwwwww.... Yolk and old quail shells, huh? I think we have a good explanation for the stinky stinky eggs. Clean that mutha out!

Oh, and bleach (or vinegar/whatever) doesn't really work effectively if something isn't already cleared of debris/dirt/whatever. Clean it out well with water, get everything off. Then bleach (or whatever) the clean surface.

Hi everyone, I'm new and my name is jennifer. I've been lurking a bit but was waiting a little while to introduce myself. I'm about a week in to my first experience incubating and hatching eggs. I have a mix of shipped Ameracaunas, easter egger, olive eggers and black copper marans. I'll probably be in and out. Thanks.

- Ant Farm

 

[BantyChooks]

Eeeeeewwwwww.... Yolk and old quail shells, huh? I think we have a good explanation for the stinky stinky eggs. Clean that mutha out!


Oh, and bleach (or vinegar/whatever) doesn't really work effectively if something isn't already cleared of debris/dirt/whatever. Clean it out well with water, get everything off. Then bleach (or whatever) the clean surface.

- Ant Farm

Okay! I have scrubbed it and scrubbed it until they styrofoam started coming off, and it is still horrid... I'll go get a pic that shows just how icky it truly is. (a lid pic, the bottom is cleaner! I juct can't soak the lid)

The sun is finally out, so I'll sit it in the sun for a bit....
-Banti

 

[BullChick]

Hi everyone, I'm new and my name is jennifer. I've been lurking a bit but was waiting a little while to introduce myself. I'm about a week in to my first experience incubating and hatching eggs. I have a mix of shipped Ameracaunas, easter egger, olive eggers and black copper marans. I'll probably be in and out. Thanks.

Welcome!

I was doing good staying away from the coffee this morning, but that is one thing you guys and gals are no help with

You are welcome!

Yep..... We are all "touched" one way or another!