July Hatch-a-long

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nicole63021 said:
Lockdown is tomorrow!!!!!   Just candled again and had to cull another 10 :/ .  Down to one lone lavender ameracauna, 3 silkies, 3 crested cream legbars, 2 BCM, and 4 BLRW.  Really hope the little ameracauna pips and is a pullet, those were the ones I wanted most.  Very excited for the others too though!  Really want some legbar pullets too, if lucky will hit 1.2 odds.  Roosters are legal here, but the neighbors may not like the noise (not sure they'd even hear him over another neighbors 5 beagle/basset dogs).  Just don't know what to do with myself, lol.  This is my first chicken hatch, and these were shipped eggs, but I kinda hoped for a better turnout.  Not blaming the breeder, since almost all of these little eggs started, they just quit along the way.
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So excited for you Nicole:) I am on my first hatch too.
 
it's fun and addictive!! have a lot of fun with those little ones...I love them all so!!
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sharol said:
My June hatch was less than stellar, but part of that was the weakness of the eggs (I thought).

Anyway throughout the june hatch I used a combination of 5 thermometers. One that combined the thermometer and hygrometer (I think that is right -- to check humidity) that had a digital readout was my main one, but I had 3 little aquarium thermometers and another digital one. sometimes they all read the same, but mostly they varied. I relied on the digital one that also tested humidity mostly because it was lots easier to read.

I decided that before I subject any more eggs to my care, I was going to get a handle on what temps are really accurate. I use a glass of hot (106 degree) water and a human heath thermometer. I submerged all 3 of the aquarium thermometers in the water and left them for a couple of minutes to stabilize and stuck in the human thermometer. it beeped and I compared the temps without removing anything from the water. They were all within a half a degree of the same temp (by this time 103.7). I then compared the temp on one of the aquarium thermometers with the digital in the brooder and the digital I have in the incubator. I am not pleased. The one in the incubator reads 4 degrees hotter than the tested temperature of the little aquarium thermometer. The secondary digital one in the brooder with my 2 chicks reads nearly 5 degrees too cool (when compared to the tested temp on the aquarium one).

The long and short of it is that I was incubating at about 4 degrees cooler than i thought I was, and probably that was the problem with the hatch. Not much hatches well at 96.

Inexperience. I needed to slow down and do those tests first.
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Dont be so hard on the digitals. Do you have a fan forced or still air? If you have still air the digitals pick up the temp at the top of the thermometer which in a still air will be hotter. You can lay the digitals on their back and they should read lower.
 
I'm interested to see what my hybrids are going to look like. I was told this one was the result of a blue marans roo and a black marans hen.



and this is his brother. Not sure if he's a "blue splash" or what, but these 2 guys are the fathers.


 
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