Alright, so it was my first eggs to incubate by myself. Put the eggs in and was thinking
I was going to have a Christmas hatch until I realized that 21 days from the first of
the month was about the 21st not the 25th. No, problem there so I just re-did the chart I had made to keep up with the turning of the eggs and also kept the temp and humidity
charted as I went along.
My wife and two younger children left Friday morning to go to my in-laws. My oldest daughter came and stayed with me and we plan to go over to my in-laws after the eggs hatch.
Lockdown started Friday morning on these eggs and problems started Friday night when my daughter came outside to my office saying it was too hot in house for her and wanted to turn down the heat. Fine,no problem. Several hours later I went in to a chilly house for me and temps that had dropped down to like 89 F in both incubators. I stayed up a few hours after turning the temps in incubator up and the heat in house back on and kept playing with the temps until I had them back where I need them.
Out of 10 eggs, 9 of them pipped Saturday starting around 8 pm. (The 10th egg was no good as I found out today, could not tell when I candled because of dark green shell color) I can't sleep much at night because of my back which keeps me up with the pain and to top it off, chicks in the shell cheeping all night did not help.
Everything was going fine today with them. Could see the little beaks pecking the shell away getting ready to make their grand entrance then CRASH!
My daughter little 5lb furrball yorkie decides to do a little climbing and exploring and down goes the incubator scattering the 10 eggs all over the floor helping to crak them some more. Chicks went to cheeping even louder. I hurried and put eggs in other incubator and got the crashed bator back up and going and transferred them back to it.
Was just a little upset over it but now I am all over being upset and have 9 little chicks running all over in the incubator acting like they want to get out already.
Maybe the next hatch (next weekend and 30 eggs) will not be too stressful.
Didn't mean to ramble on so much but could not figure how to condense it.
I was going to have a Christmas hatch until I realized that 21 days from the first of
the month was about the 21st not the 25th. No, problem there so I just re-did the chart I had made to keep up with the turning of the eggs and also kept the temp and humidity
charted as I went along.
My wife and two younger children left Friday morning to go to my in-laws. My oldest daughter came and stayed with me and we plan to go over to my in-laws after the eggs hatch.
Lockdown started Friday morning on these eggs and problems started Friday night when my daughter came outside to my office saying it was too hot in house for her and wanted to turn down the heat. Fine,no problem. Several hours later I went in to a chilly house for me and temps that had dropped down to like 89 F in both incubators. I stayed up a few hours after turning the temps in incubator up and the heat in house back on and kept playing with the temps until I had them back where I need them.
Out of 10 eggs, 9 of them pipped Saturday starting around 8 pm. (The 10th egg was no good as I found out today, could not tell when I candled because of dark green shell color) I can't sleep much at night because of my back which keeps me up with the pain and to top it off, chicks in the shell cheeping all night did not help.
Everything was going fine today with them. Could see the little beaks pecking the shell away getting ready to make their grand entrance then CRASH!
My daughter little 5lb furrball yorkie decides to do a little climbing and exploring and down goes the incubator scattering the 10 eggs all over the floor helping to crak them some more. Chicks went to cheeping even louder. I hurried and put eggs in other incubator and got the crashed bator back up and going and transferred them back to it.
Was just a little upset over it but now I am all over being upset and have 9 little chicks running all over in the incubator acting like they want to get out already.
Maybe the next hatch (next weekend and 30 eggs) will not be too stressful.
Didn't mean to ramble on so much but could not figure how to condense it.
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