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

[AlilSassy]

Sorry your hatch didn't go so well.

Thanks. Steep learning curve huh...

pretty and good luck! what did the air cells look like at lockdown? are you sure you were calibrated and that humidity was not too high during incubation. What were you running at typically? see if these help at all from our notes section ......
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At lock down, all I could see were the air cells, I chose a tough breed to start and learn hatching with...Marans being so dark n all. My pencil didn't show up well on the eggs, and I tried not to touch them much, so I didn't keep track of the cells... Humidity started high, I put water in before even turning it on, after some hours (before eggs ever went in) I realized my error... Once the water goes in, it's very hard to get it back out I learned. The timing of when my incubator showed up and my eggs showed up was too close for comfort and I rushed getting the eggs in, figured the humidity would drop in 3 days...it only did by maybe 3% (it was 65-70%) So I used paper towels to try to soak it up. After is ran between 50-60, it seemed that with out taking it apart and removing the water, it was going to stay kinda high. I bought secondary thermometers and the humidity ones (can't spell or say it lol), and about a week in or so learned I was running low on temp and the humidity was reporting pretty accurately, turns out local humidity tends to run in the 50's in the afternoon. Hopefully I learned enough through all this to do ok by these 40 some odd Araucana eggs... To see so many growing, if they all quit on me due to my own errors, ack that would blow big time...I understand some will have fatal tuft genes possibly... Thanks I'll read through all that again. Feel like I'm studying for a final, I've read so many of those posts, I'm beginning to not know which I really have or if I missed them, they have so many links to so many different posts... Well, off to try to get the 2 alert chicks to eat while I'm watching... 1 of the three is fading, that 4th one I don't know know what I'm gonna do with it... Thanks again M

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: "Why did the duck cross the road?"

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Thanks. Steep learning curve huh...
At lock down, all I could see were the air cells, I chose a tough breed to start and learn hatching with...Marans being so dark n all. My pencil didn't show up well on the eggs, and I tried not to touch them much, so I didn't keep track of the cells...

Humidity started high, I put water in before even turning it on, after some hours (before eggs ever went in) I realized my error... Once the water goes in, it's very hard to get it back out I learned. The timing of when my incubator showed up and my eggs showed up was too close for comfort and I rushed getting the eggs in, figured the humidity would drop in 3 days...it only did by maybe 3% (it was 65-70%) So I used paper towels to try to soak it up. After is ran between 50-60, it seemed that with out taking it apart and removing the water, it was going to stay kinda high. I bought secondary thermometers and the humidity ones (can't spell or say it lol), and about a week in or so learned I was running low on temp and the humidity was reporting pretty accurately, turns out local humidity tends to run in the 50's in the afternoon.

Hopefully I learned enough through all this to do ok by these 40 some odd Araucana eggs... To see so many growing, if they all quit on me due to my own errors, ack that would blow big time...I understand some will have fatal tuft genes possibly...

Thanks I'll read through all that again. Feel like I'm studying for a final, I've read so many of those posts, I'm beginning to not know which I really have or if I missed them, they have so many links to so many different posts... Well, off to try to get the 2 alert chicks to eat while I'm watching... 1 of the three is fading, that 4th one I don't know know what I'm gonna do with it...
Thanks again
M

if the humidity is too high you can add dry rice, or charcoal

its all a learning curve, i cooked my eggs the first few times i tried because i dint know about calibration

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

look at this for how many eggs/year

http://www.metzerfarms.com/DuckBreedComparison.cfm

I would love to have ducks but I can't because of the turkeys are mean. We used to have mallards but they wouldn't stop going across the road so we had to get rid of them before something happened to them. My cousin has ducks and hey go and sleep where ever on the yard all year but when the snow is falling. My pap is surprised nothing has got them yet but they have a lot of dogs around with the neighbors so I think that's what keeps predators away. When we had ours we had a kiddy pool off the back deck and my sister fell off the deck and into the kiddy pool right before school so she had to go get a shower and changed before the bus came.

"Why did the duck cross the road?"  

He chased the chicken!

 

[kajira]

Thanks. Steep learning curve huh...
At lock down, all I could see were the air cells, I chose a tough breed to start and learn hatching with...Marans being so dark n all. My pencil didn't show up well on the eggs, and I tried not to touch them much, so I didn't keep track of the cells...

Humidity started high, I put water in before even turning it on, after some hours (before eggs ever went in) I realized my error... Once the water goes in, it's very hard to get it back out I learned. The timing of when my incubator showed up and my eggs showed up was too close for comfort and I rushed getting the eggs in, figured the humidity would drop in 3 days...it only did by maybe 3% (it was 65-70%) So I used paper towels to try to soak it up. After is ran between 50-60, it seemed that with out taking it apart and removing the water, it was going to stay kinda high. I bought secondary thermometers and the humidity ones (can't spell or say it lol), and about a week in or so learned I was running low on temp and the humidity was reporting pretty accurately, turns out local humidity tends to run in the 50's in the afternoon.

Hopefully I learned enough through all this to do ok by these 40 some odd Araucana eggs... To see so many growing, if they all quit on me due to my own errors, ack that would blow big time...I understand some will have fatal tuft genes possibly...

Thanks I'll read through all that again. Feel like I'm studying for a final, I've read so many of those posts, I'm beginning to not know which I really have or if I missed them, they have so many links to so many different posts... Well, off to try to get the 2 alert chicks to eat while I'm watching... 1 of the three is fading, that 4th one I don't know know what I'm gonna do with it...
Thanks again
M

I live in a humid part of texas. I don't add more then 1-2 drops of water (every few days) because it hoovers around 30-40% humidity, with out adding water. I add water at lock down, to bump it to 75%. My first batch I had this problem with, the humidity issue, and while it was frustrating, it was a blessing in disguise when my boys smashed the incubator/eggs 2 days after I put them in there, and we had to start over - I was able to empty all the water out, and just let it be with room air for the most part. We had a couple of dryer days, where it droped into the high 20's, which is when I'd add some water, to get it back between 30-50%

I used a bulb syringe (like for sucking snot out of a kids nose.) and just put a few drops in there, to control how much went in.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Thanks. Steep learning curve huh...

At lock down, all I could see were the air cells, I chose a tough breed to start and learn hatching with...Marans being so dark n all. My pencil didn't show up well on the eggs, and I tried not to touch them much, so I didn't keep track of the cells...


Humidity started high, I put water in before even turning it on, after some hours (before eggs ever went in) I realized my error... Once the water goes in, it's very hard to get it back out I learned. The timing of when my incubator showed up and my eggs showed up was too close for comfort and I rushed getting the eggs in, figured the humidity would drop in 3 days...it only did by maybe 3% (it was 65-70%) So I used paper towels to try to soak it up. After is ran between 50-60, it seemed that with out taking it apart and removing the water, it was going to stay kinda high. I bought secondary thermometers and the humidity ones (can't spell or say it lol), and about a week in or so learned I was running low on temp and the humidity was reporting pretty accurately, turns out local humidity tends to run in the 50's in the afternoon.


Hopefully I learned enough through all this to do ok by these 40 some odd Araucana eggs... To see so many growing, if they all quit on me due to my own errors, ack that would blow big time...I understand some will have fatal tuft genes possibly...


Thanks I'll read through all that again. Feel like I'm studying for a final, I've read so many of those posts, I'm beginning to not know which I really have or if I missed them, they have so many links to so many different posts... Well, off to try to get the 2 alert chicks to eat while I'm watching... 1 of the three is fading, that 4th one I don't know know what I'm gonna do with it...

Thanks again

M

if the humidity is too high you can add dry rice, or charcoal 
 its all a learning curve, i cooked my eggs the first few times i tried because i dint know about calibration

So with the rice you put in you have had a nice dish of rice and eggs! Or was it Ballut? ( yes I am starting all that stuff again! )

 

[kajira]

if the humidity is too high you can add dry rice, or charcoal

its all a learning curve, i cooked my eggs the first few times i tried because i dint know about calibration

If I had trusted my incubator's therm, I would have undercooked them I have it at MAX heat settings, and my secondary temp, reads 99.6

If I hadn't read through this thread, I wouldn't probably have had 1 egg make it.

 

[daxigait]

come getter and anything else you want, and some ducks and duck eggs too!

Sorry no money (generator, tires, water leak, )

 

[kwhites634]

Quote:

Tell me about it, I put on gloves and long sleeves to work with it!!

it still poked me!

its this material but may 1.5" deep and probably 9"x13"
so i will have to trim it

Anyone know a good way to cut hwc that's taken a permanent 'set' from being rolled for an extended time? I normally use sheet metal shears or a side grinder with a cutting wheel; both are a pain.

 

[daxigait]

Good day dear
This is my day "off"
So I worked on my garden for 3 ouers
Treated my Canary Palm agains that awful bug.
Cut branches from my Guava tree ( do you like Guava? I just threw mor than 20 kg of it! No one like it here!)
Treated my garden after the summer
Had a spinning lesson
Now cooking for Shabat dinner ( my mom and MIL) will come tonight
Beside that nothing

How is the tree that you were treating this spring?