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Cody A said:
Your right is expensive. I was desperate what can I say. :)

Can't wait to hear about what will be coming out of your bator. :)
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I can't hardly blame you. After our last hatch my husband went and bought a fan kit for our incubator. Great, but still a little stressful because now we have to learn a whole new set of guidelines. I will have to watch the humidity so it doesn't go too low. Temps should be more stable. But I hope I don't hold them too high. I keep remembering (after I forget, because it's zero worry) that I have a broody with a few eggs that are due this coming weekend. Broody are so nice! But I still like incubating :P
 
LindaB220 said:
Poor babies!!!   They'll be okay.  They don't start dying until below 95 for an extended period.   Am I right on this?    Experts?   That's just something I read.  Not experience.  I hate people giving advice when they are newbies and assure people they know what they are talking about.     :lau

Got my 'bator ready for lockdown.  Doing one more cool down for two hours with the top off and later will get it set up.  I'm keeping the humidity at around 55% or so.  The dry hatch has gone really well this time with temps at 100 and humidity at 30%   Any advice ?   
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I've read the same thing about low temps, but I've never experienced a low drop.

I will cross my fingers you get a good hatch!! :fl I did the cool down thing with my own twist. I had to open to move the eggs around. So I would do that and maybe candle a few, then close the lid back up. It took awhile to get back up to temperature. So I considered that my cool down. The only thing I noticed is that the overall hatch was a bit later than I expected, like right on time. Which is good I guess. None of the chicks that hatched have died, so that is good. Even the upside down chick is doing amazing considering it looked like a hunchback when we got it out of the egg, lol. Now that he put a fan on my incubator I will have to decide what day to start the cool down thing. I probably will still move eggs around a bit any way.
 
I found out there is a special kind of hurt reserved for helping the man butcher a hog in super cold, after dark temperatures. But it is SO APPRECIATED! It's a happy hurt :D I don't know how many lbs we got from that sow. But she was perfect size. Nice meat, but not too big. She either was feeding babies or pregnant........or both. I'm just glad that no pig milk or other nasty bodily fluids got on me!!!!

I'm so glad the cold kept the smell at bay!

I'm going to be salt curing some pig cheeks!!! :ya This gift is SO appreciated!
 
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LemonMeringue said:
I've read the same thing about low temps, but I've never experienced a low drop.

I will cross my fingers you get a good hatch!!
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I did the cool down thing with my own twist. I had to open to move the eggs around. So I would do that and maybe candle a few, then close the lid back up. It took awhile to get back up to temperature. So I considered that my cool down. The only thing I noticed is that the overall hatch was a bit later than I expected, like right on time. Which is good I guess. None of the chicks that hatched have died, so that is good. Even the upside down chick is doing amazing considering it looked like a hunchback when we got it out of the egg, lol. Now that he put a fan on my incubator I will have to decide what day to start the cool down thing. I probably will still move eggs around a bit any way.
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Ron Ott is a premier hatcher. He does a 2 hr cool down with the top off from day 8 to day 18. To get the inside of the eggs down to 75. This is supposed to extend the hatch time by 9 hours according to the tests. Even the hatcheries are talking about the cool down now.
 
check this page out it goes into great details...about wet / dry incubating....basically you weigh your egg fresh out of the coop and at the end it should loose 15 percent...and you can adjust the humidity accordingly based on your certain environment...many things play factors like outside humidity in your home and such...temp differences as well...so check it out.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/577310/a-guide-to-humidity-weighing-and-lockdown
 
Hello!! I'm so behind I didn't even try to catch up. Lol. My two 1 1/2 year old Amercaunas quit laying when they molted but hasn't laid not one egg since. They were great layers prior to molt. I've looked for a hiding place but I really am sure they aren't laying somewhere else. My others (black star and RIR's) all molted and began laying again. Molt has been over more than a month. Any ideas? They are eating good quality layer feed free choice. Free choice oyster, too.
 
PrimroseMom1 said:
Hello!! I'm so behind I didn't even try to catch up. Lol. My two 1 1/2 year old Amercaunas quit laying when they molted but hasn't laid not one egg since. They were great layers prior to molt. I've looked for a hiding place but I really am sure they aren't laying somewhere else. My others (black star and RIR's) all molted and began laying again. Molt has been over more than a month. Any ideas? They are eating good quality layer feed free choice. Free choice oyster, too.
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Same problem here. I'm not sure how old my sussex are (previous owner said they were a year old, but also said they had just started laying) and I was sure they would lay through winter. No eggs from them since October, and no eggs from the white layers since the pox went through.

Have you changed anything else? I keep messing with my coop, changing roosts and bedding material, nest boxes, etc.

We're clearing a bit of land and I've asked that they save me some smallish trees, so I can knock out the last of the "boxes" and build a ladder roost. And after that I'll be done fiddling, honest! :lau
 
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PrimroseMom1 said:
Hello!! I'm so behind I didn't even try to catch up. Lol. My two 1 1/2 year old Amercaunas quit laying when they molted but hasn't laid not one egg since. They were great layers prior to molt. I've looked for a hiding place but I really am sure they aren't laying somewhere else. My others (black star and RIR's) all molted and began laying again. Molt has been over more than a month. Any ideas? They are eating good quality layer feed free choice. Free choice oyster, too.
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Mine aren't laying either. I had to bite the bullet & walk over to Inglewood & BUY eggs Sat. They laughed & laughed at me. They also said their hens are way off laying also. I think, in my case, it's a combination of late moult on some of them, old age on most of them & mostly it's been too darn dark too long every day! But I will not use artificial lighting - I think they need the break. I am starting to see redder combs so I think it wont' be too much longer. I think today is the first day in 2 weeks we actually are seeing sunlight. Almost forgot what it looked like!
 

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