Incubators Anonymous

[ki4got]

Just heard peeping in the shells!!!!! So excited!!! this is my first hatch!!!!! do I need to up humidity from 64% now or leave it?

64% is plenty for hatching... don't up it much higher, if it's too much higher it makes the air harder to breathe for new chicks.

 

[ChickSter99]

64% is plenty for hatching... don't up it much higher, if it's too much higher it makes the air harder to breathe for new chicks.

Thanks! I've gotten so many different answers...So, far no pipping just peeping

 

[DMRippy]

I miss read you post. I thought you were asking if you needed to UP it to 64% and I was saying not till day 18 or 19. That percent is fine for lockdown.

GOOD LUCK!

 

[ChickSter99]

I miss read you post. I thought you were asking if you needed to UP it to 64% and I was saying not till day 18 or 19. That percent is fine for lockdown.

GOOD LUCK!

I'm in day 19 now

 

[WinklerFarms]

Oh jeez I think the wife is trying to tell me something. I get home and my incubator was unplugged!!! She said she forgot that the incubator was on that surge protector but I am not sure I believe her. talk about giving an IA member a heart attack! I think they are all ok though the temp in the bator was 79. I am going to candle and check on everyone tomorrow.

In ther now I have:

Sg dorkings from Karen

Red gold x ringnecks, black melanistics, quail, and guineas from maryruthlangdon

SS plus 4 mysteries from hot2pot

Guineas from pintopasofine

Barred rocks from my own flock.

 

[DMRippy]

Oh jeez I think the wife is trying to tell me something. I get home and my incubator was unplugged!!! She said she forgot that the incubator was on that surge protector but I am not sure I believe her. talk about giving an IA member a heart attack! I think they are all ok though the temp in the bator was 79. I am going to candle and check on everyone tomorrow.

In ther now I have:

Sg dorkings from Karen

Red gold x ringnecks, black melanistics, quail, and guineas from maryruthlangdon

SS plus 4 mysteries from hot2pot

Guineas from pintopasofine

Barred rocks from my own flock.

 

[gabrielle1976]

Hi All, hi Donna

here I am. Lol. Donna invited me over to the addicts thread because she has me figured out. So here goes. Hi, I'm Cher and I am addicted to hatching anything that in the least bit resembles an egg. ::::waving and blushing:::: I am starting my second hatch in our new house because I am sick of living without chickens and my first hatch was busted by the storm and power outage. Sigh. Laura says the storms happenedc because I was incubating.

So when I have eggs left that might yet go, even two days without power, I start gathering a Mad Hatcher's Batch. Some good, normal eggs from good breeders but then I solicit, buy, beg and cajole eggs you are not supposed to incubate from friends, breeders, the grocery stores. I take refrigerated, funky shaped, muddy, overheated in a car- thank you Donna

. And 2-6 week old eggs, mark them and call it a Mad Hatcher's Batch. Then what happens, happens, I do my bit, turning and temps, and just let it roll.
There was an added incentive this time. My know-it-all daughter said those eggs don't hatch! Rude child. When she's cleaning brooders for impossible chicks I will have my revenge! If only perfection and pristine eggs hatched there would be no chickens. First time broodies are more often than not complete idiots. I stopped counting the number of chicks/eggs I had to use an incubator to rescue.
So here I am and here I'll stay

because in 2008 I got my first chickens in forever and hatching...especially if you bator build, is addictive. The Mad Hatcher's Batch goes into the Winkubator Friday with any luck.

Ok I want pictures of all these mad hatcher eggs and of your bator please I love the way you put all that could you please do up dates when you candle with pictures

 

[gabrielle1976]

Oh jeez I think the wife is trying to tell me something. I get home and my incubator was unplugged!!! She said she forgot that the incubator was on that surge protector but I am not sure I believe her. talk about giving an IA member a heart attack! I think they are all ok though the temp in the bator was 79. I am going to candle and check on everyone tomorrow.
In ther now I have:
Sg dorkings from Karen
Red gold x ringnecks, black melanistics, quail, and guineas from maryruthlangdon
SS plus 4 mysteries from hot2pot
Guineas from pintopasofine
Barred rocks from my own flock.

What happend with the store bought batch did you hatch another one? How is little brown?

 

[gabrielle1976]

I had one button hatch out of 47 eggs set , one was fully formed a couple had almost fully formed and a couple had blood rings the rest were clear. Im so sick of these hatches . I have swap eggs comeing the next couple days . I scrubbed out my incubator , disinfected it with a mild bleach solution and its air drying and IM gonna sit it in the sun light for awhile tammrow and every day till I set the eggs. While I am doing that I am going to read and re read every thing on here about temp and humidity and turning and candleing and LG incubators ect untill I set them. IF I still get bad results I dont knw what I will do I dont need more chicks atm but I shure get so sad and depressed for all those lost little lives. I kinda feel like a murderer

Here she is she is sooo tiny and soooo very cute. For the first 36 or so hours she called and called and called. She hasnt been as much tonight though. I feel bad for her but she is darn cute.

 

[Nsampsel]

Is that a button or regular quail... I got some from Mary too & just can't imagine how tiny these buttons are gonna be