Incubators Anonymous

[ki4got]

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actually you can pull up the schematics on it from their website too. hubby says if you have a volt meter, check that the fan is actually getting voltage too.

there's normally a little play in the fan, but not enough usually to make it wobbly.

I can replace parts but he's my diagnostician... ok too big a word, even for me. LOL troubleshooter. (he works good for raccoons and possums, shooting those troubles too).

 

[ki4got]

and for some totally GREAT news! ok well good anyways...

I got my first egg from the dorking pen a few days ago. 1 every day since. and 1 egg for the last 2 days from my mille fleur cochins, but I got 2 today. and I got an egg from my one mature mottled cochin too! who actually happens to be penned with her roo, so if it's fertile, it's his.

looks like my egg drought is nearing an end.

 

[Runawaylobster]

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yeah i got their wiring diagram but it is not the same as my incubator!!! now how weird is that, their diagram has one fan only and i think it''s AC, (don't remember exactly). I guess my two fans wired in series could be same as one big one... well since they are wired in series and it's the second one it probably is getting voltage although i haven't checked, could be the connector.. anyhow it's always fun to learn about the guts of your incubator will post what happens when the new fan gets here.. hopefully soon i have eggs that i started collecting on weds I don't have a DH so everything here in construction is self service, but my dogs keep the raccoons and possums away.. (they also chase chickens though ... )

 

[ki4got]

Quote: well, hubby's good for electronics and automotive, but anything 'chicken' i'm on my own... then again the power tools are mine.

he's already told me what he's getting me for Christmas. LOL a sliding compound mitre saw. he got me a new drill and cordless saw as well last month, and I've got the table saw set up too. all outdoors tho since I don't have a work shed, so they live with plastic totes over them... same as my air compressor. no different I guess than keeping them on the deck (covered but open to wind/rain)

 

[Tammy N]

Quote: well, hubby's good for electronics and automotive, but anything 'chicken' i'm on my own... then again the power tools are mine.

he's already told me what he's getting me for Christmas. LOL a sliding compound mitre saw. he got me a new drill and cordless saw as well last month, and I've got the table saw set up too. all outdoors tho since I don't have a work shed, so they live with plastic totes over them... same as my air compressor. no different I guess than keeping them on the deck (covered but open to wind/rain)

I Am so Jealouse .

 

[DMRippy]

I was at an auction last week....bad auction....but I meet a contact that was local to me. she is going into whole foods selling farm fresh eggs (she said for $1 an egg wow!) anyway she want me to hatch her some chicks......yeah! 100 Marans 60 olive eggers and 25 super blue egg layers. she will need replacements down the road too hehe. she is actually my second customer that is going into the eating egg business. love to hatch and sell right away....hehe.

 

[grannychicken54]

I was at an auction last week....bad auction....but I meet a contact that was local to me. she is going into whole foods selling farm fresh eggs (she said for $1 an egg wow!) anyway she want me to hatch her some chicks......yeah! 100 Marans 60 olive eggers and 25 super blue egg layers. she will need replacements down the road too hehe. she is actually my second customer that is going into the eating egg business. love to hatch and sell right away....hehe.

 

[grannychicken54]

thats really great I love to hatch babies right now I am still up because my very first Marans egg is hatching I hatched the hen and roo but this is my egg from my chicken my first pure breed and we are having a really bad strom I got the generator on stand by if the power goes out.

 

[lawatt]

in case anyone is still awake! i am trying my very first incubator hatch, and the one not-shipped egg (from my own chickens) pipped around 10am this morning and has now hatched, hurrah! but the remaining 12 eggs were shipped (isbars), and of those, only one has pipped -- and it's the one i have a question about, as it first pipped this morning around 10am also, and has since enlarged the hole just the slightest amount, so that i can see movement still inside the egg -- but hasn't made any real progress in terms of getting out the egg -- and perhaps most importantly, has pipped at the wrong end of the egg, the pointy end -- here's this morning:


and here's now:


i'm pretty sure i should just leave it overnight, to see if it makes any progress -- but any thoughts on when to intervene, if it still hasn't made progress by morning?

thanks!!!

 

[ozexpat]

in case anyone is still awake! i am trying my very first incubator hatch, and the one not-shipped egg (from my own chickens) pipped around 10am this morning and has now hatched, hurrah! but the remaining 12 eggs were shipped (isbars), and of those, only one has pipped -- and it's the one i have a question about, as it first pipped this morning around 10am also, and has since enlarged the hole just the slightest amount, so that i can see movement still inside the egg -- but hasn't made any real progress in terms of getting out the egg -- and perhaps most importantly, has pipped at the wrong end of the egg, the pointy end -- here's this morning:


and here's now:


i'm pretty sure i should just leave it overnight, to see if it makes any progress -- but any thoughts on when to intervene, if it still hasn't made progress by morning?

thanks!!!

go to the hatching 101 link in my signature. there is assisting info there.


good luck!!