Incubators Anonymous

[Tuhmu]

I just put 40 eggs in my incubator this weekend and I can not wait to see them hatch I have 12 lavender oprington eggs and 16 Jubilee orpington eggs also a dozen eggs from my EE rooster and his hens which are 1 domique 1 buff orpington and 2 EE hens I've hatched 2 of the orpington mix breeds and they both came out with "beards" and one of them is an all white orpington i love it cant wait to see what colors the domiques come out as

Wow, you should get quite the assortment of colors with all this different types! Will be interesting to see what you all get!

 

[ozexpat]

I just put 40 eggs in my incubator this weekend and I can not wait to see them hatch I have 12 lavender oprington eggs and 16 Jubilee orpington eggs also a dozen eggs from my EE rooster and his hens which are 1 domique 1 buff orpington and 2 EE hens I've hatched 2 of the orpington mix breeds and they both came out with "beards" and one of them is an all white orpington i love it cant wait to see what colors the domiques come out as

wont that be fun

the best part will be sorting the chicks afterwards!!

 

[Runawaylobster]

Midget White turkey eggs arrived in the mail. They are resting in a chicken egg carton and will go into the Brinsea tomorrow.

how exciting, maybe i should try turkeys, but i am thinking i would be a bit afraid of them they are so huge

just put my expensive eggs on lockdown, i have 14 ams to go on lockdown in 3 days and just put 10 more in today 5 Marans and 5 CCL...

 

[LoneStarHen]

Super cute EE/silkie chicks that hatched this afternoon! I came home to an incubator with these guys newly hatched!

 

[ozexpat]

As I am hatching eggs for a friend here in the US, I took a couple of pictures of my bator set up.



this is the second probe in a wigglie


The numbers on the left are the temps inside the wigglie, while the number on the right is the cycling temp of the bator. The eggs are on day 9. As they increase in internal heat production, I will lower the temp of the thermostat a couple of tenths of a degree. Following this pic, I dropped the thermostat temp from 38 to 37.8C

 

[LizardKing]

As I am hatching eggs for a friend here in the US, I took a couple of pictures of my bator set up.



this is the second probe in a wigglie


The numbers on the left are the temps inside the wigglie, while the number on the right is the cycling temp of the bator. The eggs are on day 9. As they increase in internal heat production, I will lower the temp of the thermostat a couple of tenths of a degree. Following this pic, I dropped the thermostat temp from 38 to 37.8C

Looks like a nice setup!
I may have to get another controller for my Little Giant because the current controller is clearly bad news.
Funny thing is that I often get swings of less than a degree using a wafer setup.
The only thing that seems to bother a wafer is age or large barometric pressure changes.
I believe the best old incubators used a double wafer setup but with their size and egg numbers must have been
very stable temperature wise.

 

[Tuhmu]

So I noticed today that with my Coolerbator, the temp is spot on when the thermometer isn't under the bulbs but is 102 when it is.....should I be worried about this? I have three in there and they all behave the same way.

the fan is partially on and below the bulb.

 

[Tuhmu]

Ignore that empty slot, it's not what it looks like I swear! It's getting filled tomorrow I promise

 

[ccr chickens]

I've just started my incubator for the first time!! I'm so excited putting the eggs in tomorrow, 6 cuckoo marans 6 bcm and 6 blue marans

wish me luck

 

[ccr chickens]

Oh and 4 ameraucana eggs that were bread to my bcm roo