KDOGG331’s Hatch Thread!!!

[ShrekDawg]

With a name like Shay Boudreaux I think I'm as coonass as they come! Coonass - ME!

Hi!

 

[NHMountainMan]

I’ve got to ask if all this precision is overthinking? A hen can’t have identical steady body temp and humidity, right? And she needs to occasionally leave them to eat etc.
the incubator is supposed to simulate nature. Nature isn’t that precise.
Just curious as I’ve never done this...

 

[shayann]

That's my husband's chicken, he chose her from all the different breeds. I'm going to hide her the day I butcher the meat chickens. I'll write her name on a vacuum sealed beg and let that one thaw out. I want to see if he notices

OMG!

 

[shayann]

Snow is like a swear in my vocabulary

 

[Kiki]

@Texas Kiki is this at all better? They’ve both been climbing since being put in here. But now I’ve gotta wait another 12 hours for it to stabilize again.

I think I’ll just set the eggs before that anyway though.

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Looks better.
An hour or two should be fine.

 

[shayann]

Will these work for the salt test or do I need the press kind???

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Salt test? Enlighten me please. What are those for?

 

[Kiki]

I’ve got to ask if all this precision is overthinking? A hen can’t have identical steady body temp and humidity, right? And she needs to occasionally leave them to eat etc.
the incubator is supposed to simulate nature. Nature isn’t that precise.
Just curious as I’ve never done this...

Yes it is all over thinking.

 

[Kiki]

@Texas Kiki is this at all better? They’ve both been climbing since being put in here. But now I’ve gotta wait another 12 hours for it to stabilize again.

I think I’ll just set the eggs before that anyway though.

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Get that polish off your nails already or repaint them

 

[Kiki]

With a name like Shay Boudreaux I think I'm as coonass as they come! Coonass - ME!

My family is from Perry.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I’ve got to ask if all this precision is overthinking? A hen can’t have identical steady body temp and humidity, right? And she needs to occasionally leave them to eat etc.
the incubator is supposed to simulate nature. Nature isn’t that precise.
Just curious as I’ve never done this...

Honestly I think you’re definitely right and most people that do it aren’t near as precise as me but I also tend to be a bit OCD okay a lot OCD and it’s really hard for me to just let go and leave it alone.

But I do think making sure the hygrometers are accurate at the very least is important because you need to tell what it’s actually reading. The humidity isn’t an exact number, it can be a very wide range and plenty of people also “dry hatch” which is just a much lower humidity than most do, but you have to be able to at least tell what the actual humidity is so you can adjust as needed and make sure it’s within that range. Too low or too high can cause a lot of problems.

So for example mine is reading 12% right now so I need to test the hygrometers so I can see if it is actually that low because if so that is a problem.

For dry hatch it should be 25% to 35% and regular should be 45 to 55 or even some do 60 I think humidity.

So wide range as you can see and I think temp can be a range too but if it went to like 10 for example or 70 or something, those would cause serious issues for the hatch. At least if it was running those numbers long term. Briefly is probably okay.

But I’m OCD and this is difficult not constantly fidgeting with it.

Last night I went through probably half the notebook trying to make a chart/notes for the hatch cause my handwriting didn’t look right/wasn’t good enough. Most of that was just from the title alone, Barry even got past it.

And @Texas Kiki wonders why I need so much paper LOL