Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

[drom]

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there are some experts on this thread, the kind of people who could hatch a chick out of a rock. And lots of people use that incubator for Marans with great success.

I can't help you much, I own an incubator for dummies. But hopefully someone else will offer their advice.

Oh, I will offer this piece of advice-forget about candling them. You won't see much.

 

[geebs]

Drom.. normally that would be me... hatch dinosaurs from rocks... I need that bator for dummies now cause I feel like a dummy reinventing the wheel... I shouldn't have seconds guessed myself.. They were just so important to us... DANG!!! DANG DANG... Next time I will just do the same ol thing...

 

[drom]

Well, you know, I think the high tech table top incubators probably do pay for themselves in the long run cause you really don't have to buy anything else or to do a thing after you put the eggs in.
But, there isn't much art to hatching chicks with them. You just turn it on, load it up and walk away-

 

[Zgoatlady]

geebs

Oh Im so sorry about your hatch. I test my hyg. I do the salt and water in a bag, and let me tell you I have 4 that are all different. So when I use them I put a note saying what the difference is.


Dorm,
Love the eggs..

 

[geebs]

ok... how do you do it... send instructions please... The whole problem was it WAS working right for the first 8 days.

 

[Zgoatlady]

Geebs,
I'll look for it and send it to you as soon as I can find it.
Oh thats not good that is worked for the first days.

Ok found it. I let mine stay in it for 24 hours not just the 2 hours

To calibrate a hygrometer you will need:
• 1/2 cup table salt
• approximately 1/4 cup water
• coffee cup
• hygrometer
• large re-sealable freezer bag
1. Place 1/2 cup of salt in the coffee cup, and add the water. Stir for a bit to totally saturate the salt (the salt won't dissolve, it will be more like really wet sand).
2. Place the salt/water mix in a re-sealable plastic bag, along with the hygrometer, and seal the bag. Note: make sure none of the salt/water mix comes in direct contact with the hygrometer.
3. Let this bag aside at room temperature for 8-12 hours, in a location where the temperature is fairly constant.
4. After 8-12 hours, check the reading of the hygrometer. It is best to read it while still in the bag.
The relative humidity in the sealed bag with the salt/water mix should be 75 percent (mine read about 72 percent).
5. For adjustable hygrometers, adjust to read 75 percent. You will have to do this very quickly, or remember how much you need to adjust the setting (e.g. mine read 72 percent rather than 75 percent, so I would need to adjust the dial up 3 percentage points).
If yours is not adjustable (like mine), simply make a note of how "off" your hygrometer reads. If it reads below 75 percent, you will need to add the difference to your actual readings. If your hygrometer read above 75 percent on the calibration, you will need to subtract the difference from your actual reading.
In my example: after sitting in the bag, my hygrometer read 72 percent, when it should have read 75 percent -- a difference of 3 percent. I now add 3 percent to the readings I take on the hygrometer (e.g. in a tank) to get the actual relative humidity.
Remember: always give a hygrometer about 2 hours to stabilize before taking a reading, as changes in the relative humidity may take a while to register accurately on a hygrometer.

 

[kathyinmo]

1/2 cup salt
1/4 water
mix in a cup into a slurry
Put it in a zip lock bag.
Sit the hygrometer in the bag (not in the cup)
zip it shut.
12 - 24 hours later, it should read 75%.

 

[geebs]

thanks so much I have archived it and will try it out tomarrow.. for tonight I am sooo tired... STRESS OF HATCHING and also my car broke on the way to the Chicken gathering an hour from me... I had a car full of stock and had to return home... What a day... I am tired... Off to bed. (I am crossing my fingers that something may still hatch though I am pretty doubtful)... Feel free to send some oooober hatchy vibes... the miracle kind.. I am gonna let er run to the end of any possibility.

 

[drom]

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[geebs]

Drom... Your the BESTEST!!!

THANKS>>> NOW off to bed for real this time!!!