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[racinchickins]

@flyladyrocks They are from my own flock. Bourbon Red tom over a Blue Palm hen. So the poults are Red Bronze and Blue Red Bronze.
Quote: It is an Incuview. I do get pretty good results. Usually I incubate in a different bator and just hatch in the Incuview. But two of my hatches so far this year were in the Incuview the whole time. 100% on both of those! (I did assist with two on the second hatch.)
I'm glad to see someone else using these. I have two Incuviews that I hatch in and I am very happy with them. I use my cabinet incubator until lockdown then they go in the Incuview. I love how visible the hatching is and they stay very stable during the hatching process. When you have to assist hatching is it because the chicks get stuck? When I first got the Incuview, I put in extra water and sponges to up the humidity like I had to do in previous incubators, but I found that it made for too much humidity and sticky babies on hatching. Now I just fill the water channels underneath and let it go, it seems to work much better.

 

[Finnie]

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[@=/u/280659/flyladyrocks]@flyladyrocks[/@]They are from my own flock. Bourbon Red tom over a Blue Palm hen. So the poults are Red Bronze and Blue Red Bronze.

Turkeys are so curious, it even starts in the incubator! They just had to watch my every move.

I really like this pic. Normally it's the people watching the chickies. They've got it the other way around! Also, what kind of incubator is that? It looks great for viewing. Do you get good results?

It is an Incuview. I do get pretty good results. Usually I incubate in a different bator and just hatch in the Incuview. But two of my hatches so far this year were in the Incuview the whole time. 100% on both of those! (I did assist with two on the second hatch.)

I'm glad to see someone else using these. I have two Incuviews that I hatch in and I am very happy with them. I use my cabinet incubator until lockdown then they go in the Incuview. I love how visible the hatching is and they stay very stable during the hatching process. When you have to assist hatching is it because the chicks get stuck? When I first got the Incuview, I put in extra water and sponges to up the humidity like I had to do in previous incubators, but I found that it made for too much humidity and sticky babies on hatching. Now I just fill the water channels underneath and let it go, it seems to work much better.

This year I've been doing things a little different than last year. Last year, my homemade cabinet bator was in my garage, and it worked fine until we had some really humid weather, and I couldn't reduce the RH in the bator. I found with the eggs from that period, there would be a lot of excess goo when the chicks pipped, and they would drown as soon as their zip line reached the goo. It was heartbreaking. Hatching them upright in cartons helped, but not completely. What helped was drilling more vents in the cabinet, and the eggs after that fared better. Well, and dry weather came. This year I moved the cabinet to the basement, and I ran it at low humidity, only adding a little water if it dipped down into the teens, pretty much keeping it in the 20s, sometimes up in the 30s. Both years I did the hatching in the Incuview the same way. I always use my own, tested hygrometer, because the built in one on the Incuview doesn't have numbers- just a range, and I don't trust their ranges. So I always keep the lockdown humidity between 65-70, and that has seemed to work fine. I think the difference is that running a lower humidity during incubation means the eggs don't go into lockdown already too full of liquid. I think by lockdown, it's too late to try to dry them out anymore. As far as maintaining 65-70 in the Incuview, I do use a sponge. I don't add water to the wells in the bottom, I just squirt some onto the sponge. I keep adding more until I get the RH up in the 60s, and then it doesn't take much to keep it there. I'm sure the excess that I squirt does go down into the wells though. When you had your sticky chicks, do you know what the actual RH was in the Incuview? If you didn't have your own hygrometer in there, and you added enough water to get the incuview's needle up into the "hatching" range, then yeah, my guess is that you would have had way too high humidity. The needle on mine always points to a lower range than what my hygrometer tells me is correct.

 

[Finnie]

I forgot to answer about the chicks I assisted. One was mal positioned and pipped the wrong end and just zipped itself a window hole. So I thought it wouldn't progress and I opened up its hole a little. But it had blood vessels, so I put it back. I'm sure I shouldn't have interfered, because that one ended up hatching all by itself.

Then there were two other ones that had similar window holes. I assisted all 3 at the same time, saw blood vessels, put them all back. These 2 never did hatch all by themselves, and I helped them out the next day. I bet if I had left them alone in the first place, they would have done better and been fine. None of them seemed too gooey, but one did have membrane dried onto its back.

I need to learn to keep my hands off them. On a later hatch, I actually killed one, and I wish I hadn't messed with it.

 

[Leahs Mom]

I'm glad to see someone else using these. I have two Incuviews that I hatch in and I am very happy with them. I use my cabinet incubator until lockdown then they go in the Incuview. I love how visible the hatching is and they stay very stable during the hatching process. When you have to assist hatching is it because the chicks get stuck? When I first got the Incuview, I put in extra water and sponges to up the humidity like I had to do in previous incubators, but I found that it made for too much humidity and sticky babies on hatching. Now I just fill the water channels underneath and let it go, it seems to work much better.

@racinchickins
I'm glad to see you using it! I've been watching the incuview thread for a long time and contemplating IF I ever get an incubator if I should get an incuview or just get one of the Brinseas in the first place.

I haven't concretely decided to get an incubator so I just keep watching. One thing that concerns me is all the problems that folks on that thread are having with them. Their answer to my concerns is always that they get GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE from the warehouse. I guess that is an advantage that they are responsive, but it seems like there have been a lot of "bugs" to work out.

You obviously like them since you got a second! But I'd be using it for incubating AND hatching.... Your opinion on them would rate very high with me! What do you think about one of these as a first incubator? Or would you just cut to the chase and get a Brinsea if it was the only one you'd own and not use lots and lots.....

Maybe if I keep procrastinating they'll get it all perfected

But...alas...I much prefer a broody. Maybe I'll get a broody girl again that will solve all my incubating problems

 

[Faraday40]

Has anyone tried this brand of incubator?


http://www.ebay.com/itm/SIL-RITE-FA...EN-EGG-INCUBATOR-KIT-TURNER-FAN-/142002920271

 

[flyladyrocks]

Waiting for a police officer. Our neighbor in writing, threatened us and our birds. She said if the city won't so anything she will take care of them herself. Spring is here, and she ramps up every spring. Yesterday she was standing on the back porch screaming at her husband cause he and my husband exchanged pleasantries!

 

[Leahs Mom]

Oh wow..... Pretty interesting that she was willing to put it in writing.... of course she could claim that YOU wrote it to harass her by falsely accusing her.

Maybe you can catch her on video if she gets verbal.

I'd be afraid she would put out poison.....

 

[flyladyrocks]

The officer was great. Told her she was lucky he wasn't carting her off to jail. The letter shows intent. If something happens she will be suspect. We have a security camera system. More than one camera pointed at our fence line. It's just scary. And sad.

Oh wow.....   Pretty interesting that she was willing to put it in writing.... of course she could claim that YOU wrote it to harass her by falsely accusing her.

Maybe you can catch her on video if she gets verbal. 

I'd be afraid she would put out poison.....

 

[iamfivewire]

hello redchicken25
im a former Dekalb county resident, but live in the Mitten now

 

[iamfivewire]

here's a "happy chickie photo" , as requested a few posts ago ......

(some Iowa Blue chicks hatched a week ago)