June Online Hatching Egg Swap Closed Addresses sent

[BerrytangleFarm]

Okay, here's Little Bob

 

[madamwlf]

This has been my favorite swap month so far! I have had successful hatches from each of my swap partners' eggs (with 1 to go).

Breshcandra - 7/12 BBS Silkies
Madamwlf - 2/9 Cream Legbars (7 made it to lockdown, 2 are out and the rest are pipping and peeping right now!)
beauty2thebirds - 5/8 Light Brown Leghorns
lotsapaints - beautiful dark Marans and OE eggs are in the bator now and looking good - from what I can tell

Thank you all so much! I am always amazed if i can get a third of my shipped eggs to hatch, much less 50% and above. They were all packaged extremely well.

How many chickies hatched??? Any whites???

 

[MrsMoonCat]

No more babies. My heart broke into pieces when I got back home yesterday. Our power had gone out due to the heat/power load (108 degrees). There must have been a big surge when it came back on. The temps in the hatcher showed 117 and since it was going down, I am assuming it had went even higher at some point. Along with killing my 15 babies that were still trying to hatch, it fried my Brinsea Spot-check thermometer. I couldn't help but start bawling at seeing all those lost babies.

I am just really, really thankful I had decided to move the newly hatched babies to a brooder box before I left the house. I usually just let them stay in the hatcher until they are completely fluffed and dried. For some reason I moved them early this time.

Hubby is getting me another surge protector strip as this one is also toasted. I am guessing it didn't do its job Or it did and we had more than one incident. Ugh. I really, really hate summer here. This horrible mess on top of I have now lost 5 tween and teen birds to the heat.

(My two little darlings are cute as they can be, no whites though

 

[ki4got]

No more babies. My heart broke into pieces when I got back home yesterday. Our power had gone out due to the heat/power load (108 degrees). There must have been a big surge when it came back on. The temps in the hatcher showed 117 and since it was going down, I am assuming it had went even higher at some point. Along with killing my 15 babies that were still trying to hatch, it fried my Brinsea Spot-check thermometer. I couldn't help but start bawling at seeing all those lost babies.
I am just really, really thankful I had decided to move the newly hatched babies to a brooder box before I left the house. I usually just let them stay in the hatcher until they are completely fluffed and dried. For some reason I moved them early this time.
Hubby is getting me another surge protector strip as this one is also toasted. I am guessing it didn't do its job

Or it did and we had more than one incident. Ugh. I really, really hate summer here. This horrible mess on top of I have now lost 5 tween and teen birds to the heat.
(My two little darlings are cute as they can be, no whites though

it would take a serious increase (50% or more) of over voltage (surge) over a long period of time to cause your incubator to get that hot that fast, and the rest of the electronics (and wiring likely) in your house would also be fried. a momentary surge when power comes back isn't enough to cause that kind of heat that fast... it sounds like your thermostat was simply stuck.

think about how long it takes for the incubator to heat up from room temperature to 100... doubling the voltage to 220 would probably just fry the heat element, causing it to stop heating all together.

 

[MrsMoonCat]

Could a power surge cause a thermostat to stay open/on like that? I was gone for about 12 hours and from the digital clocks blinking, the power had been back on for about 8 hours. I appreciate any insight.. It seems to be holding steady again (no eggs in there for now).

 

[madamwlf]

No more babies. My heart broke into pieces when I got back home yesterday. Our power had gone out due to the heat/power load (108 degrees). There must have been a big surge when it came back on. The temps in the hatcher showed 117 and since it was going down, I am assuming it had went even higher at some point. Along with killing my 15 babies that were still trying to hatch, it fried my Brinsea Spot-check thermometer. I couldn't help but start bawling at seeing all those lost babies.
I am just really, really thankful I had decided to move the newly hatched babies to a brooder box before I left the house. I usually just let them stay in the hatcher until they are completely fluffed and dried. For some reason I moved them early this time.
Hubby is getting me another surge protector strip as this one is also toasted. I am guessing it didn't do its job

Or it did and we had more than one incident. Ugh. I really, really hate summer here. This horrible mess on top of I have now lost 5 tween and teen birds to the heat.
(My two little darlings are cute as they can be, no whites though

Oh no, that's horrible. At least you saved the two. Do you know the sexes?

 

[Breshcandra]

Well lost another serama. I candled last night and another Serama quit.

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

Oh, man! I'm sorry people are having problems. I really do understand how helpless that feels.

Breshcandra, the Seramas I hatched came from a woman in Enumclaw. I specifically went out to get them from her because of the people who had told me about the difficulties in hatching them.

 

[ki4got]

ok, a bit off topic maybe but i know how you all like to swap eggs... i'm not participating in the july swap, but just got 12+ pheasant eggs. all pure breeds but no idea what colors the eggs came from, he had them all in a bucket on the desk from the last 2-3 days. (some record keeping wonder the guy is...) anyways, is anyone interested in swapping these eggs for chicken/turkey/guinea eggs? if so PM me and maybe i can find someone with something i like. 8)

a pic from one of his pens...

lol the lighting wasn't so great today, now i'm re-considering making a pheasant pen. LOL

edit: i'm going to wait until sunday night or monday morning to make my decision, unless someone offers something I just can't live without. 8)

 

[mnferalkitty]

My swap eggs are hatching

2 so far!!!