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

[BullChick]

Good evening, @jamie marie

 

[BantyChooks]

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I love it, Chaos!!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Thank you!
Worms can fly!

I add the mat because I feel bad about making the chicks lay on metal.
You don't need to adjust tempetature.
Add clean wet sponges and cloths to add humidity.
That is a no no!

Good night!

Worms will fly when pigs fly.

The metal is still the same temperature as the air.
Commercial layers live their whole lives on wire.

My name finally showed up!!! It hardly ever does!!!

Mine almost never shows up. I have this thread open on my computer a lot even when I'm not home. Does my username go away after a time when I'm not active?

No, it's fine, but sometimes I don't check my email for several days, so I miss quite a few.

-Kathy

You are dutifully diligent at answering requests for help.

And lower the temp for the last few days? Weird. Not heard of doing that yet. Is this commonly accepted or 50/50?

Here's the thing. You can incubate chicken eggs and many other species at 99.5 for the duration.
As embryos mature, with enhanced metabolism they can withstand wider temperature swings. They are also producing heat of their own. If a hatchling can live with 90-95F then why couldn't a hatching embryo survive 98F?

Knowing that two new layers and a duck could not just happen to all take the same day off, I knew that I would find eggs somewhere outside. If I bothered to look that is.
I was going to put the bottom back into the nesting area of my prefab coop. Look what I found when I opened the door.

Pic won't load. It was inside the coop. She had to jump up through the hole to lay it. I can't figure out how she thought to do it. Or why so close to the big coop.

3 birds can easily all take the same day off.

 

[BullChick]

Worms will fly when pigs fly.

The metal is still the same temperature as the air.
Commercial layers live their whole lives on wire.

Mine almost never shows up. I have this thread open on my computer a lot even when I'm not home. Does my username go away after a time when I'm not active?

You are dutifully diligent at answering requests for help.

Here's the thing. You can incubate chicken eggs and many other species at 99.5 for the duration.
As embryos mature, with enhanced metabolism they can withstand wider temperature swings. They are also producing heat of their own. If a hatchling can live with 90-95F then why couldn't a hatching embryo survive 98F?


3 birds can easily all take the same day off.

Pigs do fly!
I didn't say there was a logical reason for me putting down the rubber mat. It just makes my city girl brain feel better to not make them lay on the metal.
I believe that a name will remain whether you are active or not.
The chances of three out of five layers taking the same day off seems very slim. I have never had that many take a day off with that few layers. I think the last time I had three take the same day off, was when I had about twenty layers.
Yes, it could happen. I just didn't believe that it had. And, an egg did show up. Too funny that I really did have to go on an Easter egg hunt for it!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

@h2oratt @Akrnaf2

My wife's recipe is 1/2 cup of cashew butter, 1/2 cup of applesauce, 2 eggs and cinnamon to taste.

You can exchange other types of nut/seed butters but my wife is a stickler for recipes. She read that

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Was there a prize inside?

 

[runt325]

yes worms \

 

[BullChick]

Was here a prize inside?  

Yup! A pearl! e

 

[kwhites634]

Quote:

 

[runt325]

Yup! A pearl!