Incubators Anonymous

[DMRippy]

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I can't ship live birds, only eggs.

 

[Arielle]

ANd packs the eggs really well!!!


Donna, the eggs are in and cooking!!! THank you again.

First duck eggs arrived--DH just handed it to me. I'm not hatching duck eggs, I'm not, really I'm not ! Not ! not! not!

Really!

Incubator is FULL. Well it will be when I add 3 dozen more eggs today. THey are warming up to room temp.

 

[ROCKIN R FARM]

I can't ship live birds, only eggs.

that is fine. I saw your PM and responded to it.

 

[DMRippy]

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Just let me know!

 

[ROCKIN R FARM]

Much easier to keep them happy if they don't know free ranging. I have a few breeders penned now and they pace wanting their old life back. COme fall they can free range again for the winter.

My dog house that was a turkey coop for two sat idel when we built the new turkey coop ( read former greenhouse converted) and then intended to use the dog house as a nesting box. BUT the dog house didn't fit thru the door!

Hatching eggs arrived today! THanks Donna RIppy!! Beautiful packing job. A few kinds including olive eggers. THe olives are a pretty green. I wanted a different line to cross mine with.

Total of 40 eggs!

so you do not let your breeders out during breeding season? I have 4 pens of breeders and what I do is each day only 1 pen at a time get let out so they can still forage and have fun. So far its been working out fine. I have buffs and lavenders, EE's and Australorps and my silkies have a coop and run all to themselves. About the dog house post we had the same thing happen to us, do poor dh had to take the door and the frame off to get the house in the run LOL.
deana

 

[Arielle]

LOL unfortunately even with the door off, it will not fit. So I started to undo the top and bottom and ran in to bolts holding it together.

I'll find a use for it another time.


I have other birds that free range all the time because they have no pen. So the breeders will stay penned for now. THe marans are very good foragers and would head out far into the woods. I would like to get a few offspring before losing them to the coyote.Nice birds, I really like them.

 

[ronott1]

Wow what a day.

Three out of five Cream Legbar eggs hatched today. The two that did not hatch were a late quitter and a middle quitter.

Those chicks were a sticky mess! I really need to watch the air cells. All three of them stuck and tonight I had to give each of them a bath.

One of them even stuck to the mesh floor

I had to use a wet paper towel and moistened qtips to free the poor thing. That one had two baths. The first one was to get the eyes open....They are all three fine now. I might need something for my nerves.

They are still a bit mussed so I can't really tell yet but I think one of them is a Cockerel and two of them are pullets. If so, that gives me, between the two hatches, two cockerels and three pullets.

Ron

Edited to Correct Spelling Ron

 

[ChestnutRidge]

I need to do better with air cells, too! I was so concerned about a few I had with huge wonky shipping-issue air cells that I over corrected and, while those look great now, the rest of my air cells are too small.

We had a three-hour power outage last week, but they are more than three hours late. I usually get my first pip on day 19 and most hatch on day 20 (even though I have adjusted the temps down, same result).... But this morning is day 20 and the incubator is silent. No pips. We had a really big thunderstorm last night and yesterday morning, so I am afraid that the the pressure messed with the chicks or they all "drowned" in their air cells or.... who knows. But it's only day 20, so I need to relax.

I'm just so used to the hatches running like clockwork that this is throwing me for a loop.

 

[Arielle]

Wow what a day.

Three out of five Cream Legbar eggs hatched today. The two that did not hatch were a late quitter and a middle quitter.

Those chicks were a sticky mess! I really need to watch the air cells. All three of them stuck and tonight I had to give each of them a bath.

One of them even stuck to the mesh floor

I had to use a wet paper towel and moistened qtips to free the poor thing. That one had two baths. The first one was to get the eyes open....They are all three fine now. I might need something for my nerves.

They are still a bit mussed so I can't really tell yet but I think one of them is a Cockerel and two of them are pullets. If so, that gives me, between the two hatches, two cockerels and three pullets.

Ron

Edited to Correct Spelling Ron

What did the air cells look like? What do you think was the problem? Air cells too small? How many days for those 3 to hatch? LOoking for more information to connect the dots.

 

[Arielle]

I need to do better with air cells, too! I was so concerned about a few I had with huge wonky shipping-issue air cells that I over corrected and, while those look great now, the rest of my air cells are too small.

We had a three-hour power outage last week, but they are more than three hours late. I usually get my first pip on day 19 and most hatch on day 20 (even though I have adjusted the temps down, same result).... But this morning is day 20 and the incubator is silent. No pips. We had a really big thunderstorm last night and yesterday morning, so I am afraid that the the pressure messed with the chicks or they all "drowned" in their air cells or.... who knows. But it's only day 20, so I need to relax.

I'm just so used to the hatches running like clockwork that this is throwing me for a loop.

If your hatches go like clock work, no wonder you are concerned and upset.

What did you change to accommodate the shipped air cell problems?? Do you think running the hatch the same as non-shipped eggs would work? Enquiring minds want to know . . .