Incubators Anonymous

[Joshua G]

Quote: Thanks, will do.

 

[TherryChicken]

 

[roostereggs]

Whoa! Totally jealous! THREE of them!

 

[roostereggs]

i am not convinced you can drown a chick be having humidity too high in lockdown

the evaporation of fluid from the egg after pipping is minimal. the egg is 100% humid when it pips. A humidity of 90% is not going to fill the egg with water.

its all abou aircell size at pip

No I don't think that the egg fills with water and drowns them per se...but I was losing 1-2 pipped/zipped chicks each time I had 4-6 hatch at once...causing the bator window to condense. I didn't let the extra humidity out and would spray the eggs each time I pulled chicks out. I didn't realize that humidity could be TOO high until after the hatch, doing some research on it. I was losing vigorously zipping chicks suddenly.

What I read is that any free O2 molecules are no longer available and that is why they suffocate so quickly when they were previously doing fine. Upon eggtopsy, there were no other issues...no drowning, no shrinkwrap, position issues, nothing. I think here in the desert with our humidity in the teens, we don't need to maintain humidity as high as people in more humid areas.

And speaking of chickies hatching...dh woke me up at 0345 to watch two yellow RIRxEE fluffy butts hatch a day early!

They are laying across 3 pipped ones. How the heck am I supposed to go to work today???

 

[chiqita]

No I don't think that the egg fills with water and drowns them per se...but I was losing 1-2 pipped/zipped chicks each time I had 4-6 hatch at once...causing the bator window to condense. I didn't let the extra humidity out and would spray the eggs each time I pulled chicks out. I didn't realize that humidity could be TOO high until after the hatch, doing some research on it.  I was losing vigorously zipping chicks suddenly.

What I read is that any free O2 molecules are no longer available and that is why they suffocate so quickly when they were previously doing fine. Upon eggtopsy, there were no other issues...no drowning, no shrinkwrap, position issues, nothing. I think here in the desert with our humidity in the teens, we don't need to maintain humidity as high as people in more humid areas.

And speaking of chickies hatching...dh woke me up at 0345 to watch two yellow RIRxEE fluffy butts hatch a day early! e They are laying across 3 pipped ones. How the heck am I supposed to go to work today???

o2 is tge biggest problem in general imo after temperature.

 

[TherryChicken]

Whoa! Totally jealous! THREE of them!

thank you

 

[carriebain]

I just had a chick hatch with its brains exposed. This was my first cull and it really sucked! I'm glad the majority of my hatches have been healthy, but when they go wrong it is hard to deal with and makes you wonder what you are doing. Thanks for listening.

 

[chiqita]

I just had a chick hatch with its brains exposed. This was my first cull and it really sucked! I'm glad the majority of my hatches have been healthy, but when they go wrong it is hard to deal with and makes you wonder what you are doing. Thanks for listening.

/hugs

 

[ozexpat]

i just lost my very costly nubian buck.
a bycer quoted his grandfather - where there is livestock, there is deadstock.

culling is part of hatching but sorry you had to go through it

 

[carriebain]

Thanks guys, the hardest part for me is having to make the life or death decision. Suffering is not an option. I would like to hear what everyone's preferred method for putting their chicks down. I drown the little guy, but this method didn't seem like the quickest way. I'm sorry you lost your buck, oz