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[Lotsapaints]

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You have calibrated your humidity monitor? It's possible do you do an eggtopsy on the non hatchers? Here's a link for trying to figure out why http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/aa204

 

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

I have six eggs under a columbian wyandotte due the 12th. Archie's clutch (none of which are hers!) are all mixed breeds... I am so excited to see what comes out! I actually am impatient enough that I used the color calculator and some math to figure out all the possibilities (and the statistical probability of each) because I can't wait for them to hatch!
She's a first time broody... only the second in my flock. I hope she does well!

 

[Tuppemor]

I now have two new chicks under broody outside, and two more are on the way.
In my incubator there are various eggs (pheasant, turkey, new hampshire, brahma, etc) due to hatch in the next few days, one turkey poult is already out and two more are looking out at me.

Still wondering what I'm supposed to feed them though, can't get any turkey chick feed anywhere, cause nobody raises them commercially and everyone else is told to feed chick starter (for chickens).

 

[Daniel_2kaii9]

i have a pip!!!!!!!

 

[Rin]

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You have calibrated your humidity monitor? It's possible do you do an eggtopsy on the non hatchers? Here's a link for trying to figure out why http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/aa204

There's three of them and all of them agree?... from two different manufacturers completely... it's just... odd.. they look "normal" to me when I opened them - just a bit dry. It might be temp though actually. What I was set at was giving readings of 99.5-100.5 about the incubator - but inside the ziploc wiggler? 101.8 :| To even get it to 99.anything I had to lower it by turning the heat down a full turn. It's regulated at a much muuuch better temp now I guess?

So I owe it to this topic for the idea to try a wiggler. Probably saved this next hatch.

 

[SportChick]

@Rin: It makes you wonder how they could be so different? I mean how does the inside get to be 101.8 when the surrounding temperature is only 100.5??

 

[Rin]

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It does.. especially with dual fans inside my bator circulating air. Its why I'm letting it sit all day to see whats up. Like with tweeking it's now gotten to be 99.5 inside fake egg and 99.0 in the surrounding "air".

 

[jossanne]

I've got one little blue chick hatched under my broody so far. Its daddy is a bantam cochin, not sure what its mama is yet. Probably an australorp. 7 more eggs left. I took the chick out and put it with the week-old bantams in the brooder, and it's the same size. Crossing my fingers for more babies!

Looks like a lot of us have successful broodies today! Yippee for mama hens!

 

[jossanne]

Got a second baby hatched under my welsummer that I was worried about. Brought it in and put it in the brooder too. Looks like it came out of a white egg. It's solid blue, looks to have a muff, no feathers on its feet. It's got dark legs and is pretty big.

So my white egg layers are SSH's, white leghorns, buff minorcas, a buff-laced polish, black minorcas, and a brown leghorn. My roos are a blue bantam cochin, a bearded silver-laced polish and a bearded black silkie.

Where in the world would a clean-legged, bearded, blue chick have come from?

The one in question is still a bit wet. The other hatched a bit ago, has feathered feet and is blue. I'm thinking it's the australorp/cochin baby.

 

[PandoraTaylor]

Late Day 19-
5/9 pipped! I don't hear chirps or cheaps yet, but you can tell they are pipped..... there is a little bity piece of shell pointed away from those eggs!