Jan./Feb. 2014 hatch a long

[LadyCluck77]

This one is brown, hard to see into, but it looks porous to me, or maybe it's my first time so I have no clue what to look for. This would be day 4 or 5.

 

[sasimpson77]

Last of my chicks hatched last night hopefully it gets its strength quickly because I have 4 eggs that need to go into lock down tonight so it will be a quick bator clean and get them in there expecting more egg shipments today thinking I am getting a better handle on my temp and humidity hoping so because I am really looking forward to the eggs that are coming I am so addicted I have another incubator on order it will be here around the first week in march. I am thinking about using it for a hatcher I will decide when it gets here also think I am going to try to find some computer fans and put them on my hovabators. I am so addicted.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Last of my chicks hatched last night hopefully it gets its strength quickly because I have 4 eggs that need to go into lock down tonight so it will be a quick bator clean and get them in there expecting more egg shipments today thinking I am getting a better handle on my temp and humidity hoping so because I am really looking forward to the eggs that are coming I am so addicted I have another incubator on order it will be here around the first week in march. I am thinking about using it for a hatcher I will decide when it gets here also think I am going   to try to find some computer fans and put them on my hovabators. I am so addicted.

Whichever you decide to use as a hatcher would be better left as a still air. Humidity has to be much higher in a forced air bator to avoid shrinkwrap. You can hatch safely at 40-60% in a still air. Quail & chicks in the lower end of the range, waterfowl in the upper range. Turkeys, peas, guineas & pheasants right in the middle.

 

[Heidisgran]

This one is brown, hard to see into, but it looks porous to me, or maybe it's my first time so I have no clue what to look for. This would be day 4 or 5.

they are porous but that's not necessarily a worry....candle down from the fat end of the egg....I think I see some veining

 

[sasimpson77]

OMG I know off topic but I shipped out some eggs today labeled them all over this side up fragile etc. and as I am at the post office the first thing the lady does is pick them up and thunk them up on end on the counter lol Really and then she was nasty and rude I don't get it I was very pleasant but come on.

 

[sasimpson77]

Whichever you decide to use as a hatcher would be better left as a still air. Humidity has to be much higher in a forced air bator to avoid shrinkwrap. You can hatch safely at 40-60% in a still air. Quail & chicks in the lower end of the range, waterfowl in the upper range. Turkeys, peas, guineas & pheasants right in the middle.

Thanks for the advice Silkie I will defintly leave one with out a fan then I have three of the Hovabators.

 

[Heidisgran]

OMG I know off topic but I shipped out some eggs today labeled them all over this side up fragile etc. and as I am at the post office the first thing the lady does is pick them up and thunk them up on end on the counter lol Really and then she was nasty and rude I don't get it I was very pleasant but come on.

what eggs? and where to? hope they weren't mine!!!

 

[Heidisgran]

I have some gorgeous BC Marans eggs and some frizzled buff polish on the way!!! what will hubby say?

 

[sasimpson77]

what eggs? and where to? hope they weren't mine!!!

LOL they were eggs I am shipping to someone here in IL. I sold them on Ebay

 

[jan12]

I love blue chicks! They are so cute <3 What kind are they? Congrats

Silkie/cochin bantams..may be pure or not..who knows says the sales person.      I am loving all of the feathering on these little ones..Holy Cow, they have thick feathering.  Going to be fun watching them walk around in the future.  I have a girl out there right now..a pure bantam cochin, and she has so much feathering going on, I call her Charlie, because she walks like Charlie Chaplin.  She's a sweetheart. 

Awwww! I love the feathering on their little legs