Incubators Anonymous

[ozexpat]

So we bought Motza the water buffalo and feta the goat. The following day one of our other goats had a kid - female - it was named Gevrik - a Cornish word meaning little goat and a type of goat. cheese. Then on Tuesday another kid -- a male. He is Kebob.

 

[ChickNmamma]

When I was growing up we had one fenced area we couldn't use for the horses, so we rented it to a guy to keep a steer. I was young and dumb back then, so I asked what the cow's name was. I was told Stu. So when I would feed it the alfalfa the guy brought over to supplement the grass that was gone I would talk to the cow and call him Stu. One day Stu went away and another cow came over. I asked what this one's name was and was told Hamburger. Then I realized the first steer's name was SteW! Wake up and smell the cow manure!

 

[ozexpat]

My young buck named stewie is off to the market with his dad on tuesday. The dad is Vindaloo. They will be replaced with a dairy buck named Tullyboy

 

[FreeRanging Hen]

All of our non-pets are called "Dinner". We may have multiple "Dinner"s at one time LOL

In other news.... We've made it!!
We just started our lockdown with 16 eggs still in there and wiggling away
First candling had us taking out 11 infertile/too old to germinate eggs, 4 blood rings and what I assume was a 'quitter'.
Second candling had us take out just one more quitter, leaving behind 16 wiggling peeps.
All of them are now in lockdown and I hope that I don't screw it up.

I can't get the humidity to stay over 70% right now (for lockdown), even with the whole bottom of the incubator filled with water.
Is this going to be enough humidity for hatching?
The only definative number I have been able to find as a guide for hatching says to get it to 75%.

 

[dutchbunny83]

Hi everyone!

Haven't been on this thread in awhile so just catching up. Love all the pics!
I just had my blue Breda hatch and I'm loading my incubator up for the last hatch until Spring.

I've got Blue Salmon Favorelles, Super Blue Layers, Marraduna Basque, Swedish Flower hens, & Blue Isbar eggs going in.
Lately I've been having some humidity issues with my bator.
Fingers crossed I have a good hatch and lots of girls!!!

 

[dvoice]

All of our non-pets are called "Dinner". We may have multiple "Dinner"s at one time LOL

In other news.... We've made it!!
We just started our lockdown with 16 eggs still in there and wiggling away
First candling had us taking out 11 infertile/too old to germinate eggs, 4 blood rings and what I assume was a 'quitter'.
Second candling had us take out just one more quitter, leaving behind 16 wiggling peeps.
All of them are now in lockdown and I hope that I don't screw it up.

I can't get the humidity to stay over 70% right now (for lockdown), even with the whole bottom of the incubator filled with water.
Is this going to be enough humidity for hatching?
The only definative number I have been able to find as a guide for hatching says to get it to 75%.

I'm still in the learning stages but my last hatch humidity was at 63% and I did OK.

 

[BurnBrightly]

I'm incubating my first batch, but it's so intriguing. I think I'm well on my way to becoming an addict. I love candling them and letting my kids see the development. My chicks are due to hatch this weekend, so my fingers are crossed that this first round went well!!

 

[ChickNmamma]

All of our non-pets are called "Dinner". We may have multiple "Dinner"s at one time LOL

In other news.... We've made it!!
We just started our lockdown with 16 eggs still in there and wiggling away
First candling had us taking out 11 infertile/too old to germinate eggs, 4 blood rings and what I assume was a 'quitter'.
Second candling had us take out just one more quitter, leaving behind 16 wiggling peeps.
All of them are now in lockdown and I hope that I don't screw it up.

I can't get the humidity to stay over 70% right now (for lockdown), even with the whole bottom of the incubator filled with water.
Is this going to be enough humidity for hatching?
The only definative number I have been able to find as a guide for hatching says to get it to 75%.

70% sounds good to me, once they start pipping the humidity will go up from the hatching chicks. Mine ran about 69-75 when hatching.

Hi everyone!

Haven't been on this thread in awhile so just catching up. Love all the pics!
I just had my blue Breda hatch and I'm loading my incubator up for the last hatch until Spring.

I've got Blue Salmon Favorelles, Super Blue Layers, Marraduna Basque, Swedish Flower hens, & Blue Isbar eggs going in.
Lately I've been having some humidity issues with my bator.
Fingers crossed I have a good hatch and lots of girls!!!

 

[Penny Hen]

All of our non-pets are called "Dinner". We may have multiple "Dinner"s at one time LOL

In other news.... We've made it!!
We just started our lockdown with 16 eggs still in there and wiggling away
First candling had us taking out 11 infertile/too old to germinate eggs, 4 blood rings and what I assume was a 'quitter'.
Second candling had us take out just one more quitter, leaving behind 16 wiggling peeps.
All of them are now in lockdown and I hope that I don't screw it up.

I can't get the humidity to stay over 70% right now (for lockdown), even with the whole bottom of the incubator filled with water.
Is this going to be enough humidity for hatching?
The only definative number I have been able to find as a guide for hatching says to get it to 75%.

One trick to raising the humidity is to stand a sponge on edge so that half of it is out of the water. This increases the evaporating surface. It can also be done by draping thick paper towels half in and out of the water.

 

[ki4got]

All of our non-pets are called "Dinner". We may have multiple "Dinner"s at one time LOL

In other news.... We've made it!!
We just started our lockdown with 16 eggs still in there and wiggling away
First candling had us taking out 11 infertile/too old to germinate eggs, 4 blood rings and what I assume was a 'quitter'.
Second candling had us take out just one more quitter, leaving behind 16 wiggling peeps.
All of them are now in lockdown and I hope that I don't screw it up.

I can't get the humidity to stay over 70% right now (for lockdown), even with the whole bottom of the incubator filled with water.
Is this going to be enough humidity for hatching?
The only definative number I have been able to find as a guide for hatching says to get it to 75%.

I don't usually up my humidity over 55-60%... depending what your humidity was during incubation (if you followed the guide) 70% is likely too high anyways.

I dry incubate everything (averaging 20% at most usually) and up to 50-60 during hatching. if it drops below 50 then I add some water to the paper towel lining the floor, or to one of the sections of cardboard egg crate I hatch in (without an egg in it) and it'll soak the water and raise humidity a lot.

I also have a 'chicken dinner' who was sold as a hatchling, but when I found a pic of him told her she WAS NOT eating a bird that nice... at 5 months old now he's larger than his sire, and isn't even finished feathering in. he kept his name but won't ever be (for people at least).
This is CD... (standing next to a LF 2 year old EE hen!)