Incubators Anonymous

[DMRippy]

i'd say your humidity's probably too high overall... i dry incubate, around 15-20%, then up to 50-60 the last 2-3 days. i tend to lockdown around day 19 unless i see internal pip earlier.

I agree.... with marans especially you have to have the lower humidity. I keep mine under 35%.... hard to keep it lower here.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: THank you!! A refresh is always welcome!

Quote: With the summer humid weather, my hatch rates have been decreasing!

But on a good note, a hen with 13 chicks showed up this morning for a late breakfast!!!! DH had noticed the hen count decreasing, and so had I. I wonder when the other hen will show up, and with how many?

So much for putting the eggs in an incubator! Though I just put 4 duck eggs in, because I found a hen hiding under the wood pile, and the new run will block her hole. Boys unloaded the wood rack, took the eggs, and poor hen is at a lost where to go. Old nest preferred. Poor girl.

 

[gabrielle1976]

Im so sad I didnt get one of your beutifull Cuckoo especally as so many of them grew to almost hatching . . Im so tired of loseing babies I dont even want to try after my buttons hatch. I have about 2 dozen swap eggs comeing though so I will give it one more go . Not shure I will hatch again after that though. I get so sad when They get so close then die. It kinda depresses me . Then I have the chick that wont eat and cries all the time she is days old now and hasnt grown at all . My son found a way to get her to drink a little gatoraid off a q tip but what tiny bits of food we manage to get in her beak she usually spits right back out.

 

[Arielle]

Im so sad I didnt get one of your beutifull Cuckoo especally as so many of them grew to almost hatching . . Im so tired of loseing babies I dont even want to try after my buttons hatch. I have about 2 dozen swap eggs comeing though so I will give it one more go . Not shure I will hatch again after that though. I get so sad when They get so close then die. It kinda depresses me . Then I have the chick that wont eat and cries all the time she is days old now and hasnt grown at all . My son found a way to get her to drink a little gatoraid off a q tip but what tiny bits of food we manage to get in her beak she usually spits right back out.

Sounds like you need to re-evaluate your incubating techniques.

Often summer time is a very different ambient temperature and humidity; the small incubators ARE effected by local climate conditions. My understanding is that the super sized incubators are not effected and have tje technology to maintain the correct humidity and temperatures.

 

[ki4got]

with my hovabators (circulated air with turners) i've just learned what i need to do during different seasons for regulating the humidity... in the winter i add some, in the summer i don't. winter time humidity averages about 30-40% summer is more like 70-80. the ambient temperatures in the back room stay pretty constant year round (70-80) so that's not too big of a problem.

 

[Zootopia]

I just set my last ones for awhile. I really think the temps are getting too high for shipping to be practical. I had 3 W/BW Am that I almost missed in the Sportsman, happened to see the date on the eggs and was like"maybe I should put them into lockdown" I candled them but they are dark and all I could see was they had developed. Couldn't see any movement, maybe I should have floated them.(Hind site) Anyway I really wasn't thinking they'd do any thing and nothing when I went to bed at 5. I got up at 11 and had 2 almost dry chicks and the other is pipped. I think I have a couple Rio Grand turkeys due out next. No real idea, just eyeballing them since some of them she had been setting on for who knows how long before they were pulled, so we'll see what happens. Maybe I can find some eggs within driving distance

, I have to go to Austin for a rescue dog Sunday. Doesn't charm live down that way?

 

[Arielle]

We need a way to find members by state-- oh wait there is a by state thread for those wishing to participate!! Try your TX thread!

 

[Zootopia]

And my DH was encouraging me to attend IA!!

(He really doesn't get it

) Yes, I'm on Texas too.

 

[DMRippy]

And my DH was encouraging me to attend IA!!

(He really doesn't get it

) Yes, I'm on Texas too.

One day he may figure out we are your suppliers

 

[Zootopia]

Shsss, he might hear you !!!