Incubators Anonymous

[ozexpat]

I bet it took a wile to get everything down to a science to hatch in them conditions and a lot of trial and error  

It was an expensive and heartbreaking experience. I started with shipped eggs imported from USA. Once I had 12 hatch from 200 eggs. Then 8 were killed by fire ant bites in the brooder.

Once I made everything ant proof and worked out how to get humidity controlled it suddenly got better. I get 30-50% on imported eggs just like most shipped egg hatchers here and average 86 % on locally laid eggs.

If I turn the dehumidifier off local eggs only hatch at 55%.

 

[gander007]

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Ya Puddin Fluff, I guess if you ask him for fencing the idea of hiding them is mute but what do you do with the lama is there much of a market for the wool ,, I know I got a sweeter in Peru back in 1996 and it still works just fine but it really is not cold enough to use unless I go into the snow country and then I look funny in a sweeter and every one else has a big thick jacket on ....... Ya it really works ......

 

[gander007]

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You are in the P.I. and as I remember the humidity is very high so you ether have a very large dehumidifier or several of them I know my former wife was trying to hatch in Panama and I had to reconfigure one of the closets to control the humidity a lot easer and I still had to get her several dehumidifiers to do the hatching and in several months she was getting more chicks the she could normally hatch in several years ..... But it took a lot of work and controlling the environment and yes them ant's were horrible over there where you are I can still remember jumping out of a helicopter back in 1984 and landing on an ant hill worse thing that ever happened to me over there but I did get to sit in the cold water for several hours as the bites really did make me feel like I was on fire and probably why I remember it so well after all these years .......

So how long is it taking you to get the egg's from the USA to where you are ..... ?????

 

[Sylviaanne]

That is a problem with sending egg's in the Mail all the altitude changes and bouncing wile driving down the road not to mention some of the handlers along the way who think it is funny to shake the box like a rattle .....

The only egg's I have ever sent out were well shaped and clean as we do not get much rain and it is really dry and the egg's come from a Straw filled nest but I learned it is just not good to sell egg's as the problems that arise by the time the package get to the other end and I have Mail ordered many a egg just to keep the blood lines clean of intra breeding ....... But there are times I believed the seller did not have a rooster even as there never was any development in any of the egg's ......

LOL I bought 29 guinea eggs from a local lady who said she had 98 guineas. I got 9 guineas out of that hatch. I can't remember how many were not fertile but it was more than half.

 

[gander007]

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Yes I can see that but I just checked my guinea egg's I got from the yard and half have nothing going on in them but I am also only 11 days into the hatch and a Bob-Cat got the momma guinea hen so I have to see if I can get a hen out of this clutch of egg's and guinea egg's are hatched at 100 F degrees with a forced air incubator so what temp are you using or what temp do you have it set at .......

 

[Sylviaanne]

Yes I can see that but I just checked my guinea egg's I got from the yard and half have nothing going on in them but I am also only 11 days into the hatch and a Bob-Cat got the momma guinea hen so I have to see if I can get a hen out of this clutch of egg's and guinea egg's are hatched at 100 F degrees with a forced air incubator so what temp are you using or what temp do you have it set at .......

Well, like I have said, I am lousy at keeping records so I didn't write that down but the hatch I had done before was sitting on 100. I didn't change the setting when they hatched, I just unplugged it so I would assume that it was still sitting on 100. When I restart them, I run them several hours to 24 hours at 100 to warm them up. I check frequently and my incubators run right at 99 - 100. I try not to touch them but sometimes, I don't know what sets them off, the incubators will go down to 98 or up to 102. That's the only time I adjust them and after about a day, it's back on 100 and between 99 - 100.

 

[gander007]

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Oh ya I am horrible at keeping records myself but my walls have enough writing on them as I always loose paper and the walls do not seem to move much LOL ... Sounds like you had your settings correct and the person you got them egg's from gave you a lot of unfitted egg's I bet the guinea were just to young or the roo is not doing his job .......

 

[Waste]

I am looking to by a used brinsea octagon 40. any idea where I can find one

 

[Sylviaanne]

Oh ya I am horrible at keeping records myself but my walls have enough writing on them as I always loose paper and the walls do not seem to move much LOL ... Sounds like you had your settings correct and the person you got them egg's from gave you a lot of unfitted egg's I bet the guinea were just to young or the roo is not doing his job .......

LOL I would suspect she did it on purpose if there were a way to tell if they were fertile or not from outside the shell. I inadvertently insulted her. I talked my way out of it but didn't ask a 2nd time for the eggs and she came around and asked if I still wanted them. Oh, heck, YEAH! LOL

 

[Sylviaanne]

I am looking to by a used brinsea octagon 40. any idea where I can find one

I wouldn't know where to get one locally but I know they carry Brinsea on ebay. You might try your local Craigslist or even your local FreeCycle.