March Egg Swap . . . .Post pics of your hatches!!!!!

[daze333]

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I do the same as Renegaderidge farms as far as the opening of the bator goes. But I have had trouble with doing staggered hatches in one bator. The high humidity did mess up the ones that were not in lockdown. Low hatch rate and the ones that did hatch had problems. So I have gone to having a hatcher. That is a separate incubator that you can raise the humidity on.

Good luck!

 

[jnkir7]

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aww man i want one of those real bad

 

[renegaderidgefarm]

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I do the same as Renegaderidge farms as far as the opening of the bator goes. But I have had trouble with doing staggered hatches in one bator. The high humidity did mess up the ones that were not in lockdown. Low hatch rate and the ones that did hatch had problems. So I have gone to having a hatcher. That is a separate incubator that you can raise the humidity on.

Good luck!

I guess the humidity depends on where you live and the climate there. I don't have any problems with humidity during incubating and hatching. I have done it all, incubating and hatching, in one or the other.

 

[ilovebuffs]

Oh Decisions, decisions...I live in central GA, the weather is similar to yours Renegade...What do you usually keep your humidity at during the first 18days? I usually start with 35-45% then bump it up to 60% during lockdown.

I so want to put some more eggs in there. Thanks for your input.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I live a hop, skip and a jump from Betsy. I use a hatcher simply because I can't reach the back of the Sportsman to get chicks out. I use my styrofoam Genesis 1588 to hatch in. I keep the humidity around 60-70% the last 4 days, before that I try to keep it at 50% in the Sportsman but it is often 35-45% when I open it every day.

I do love that our humidity is a bit higher than otehr places and we don;t have the problem of opening the bator every day. I open my hatcher every time a chick hatches so I can take the shell out and write down what pen it came from and what color the chick is.

 

[renegaderidgefarm]

Ok! Confession time . . . . I have no clue what my humidity is! My incubators have plexi-glass doors so if I have dew drops on the bottom of my doors - I'm good to go!!!!! I do put duck and the oeg eggs on the bottom racks during hatching because they require a higher humidity and the quail on the top but thats it. I do have hyrgometers in both the hatcher and incubator but I never look at them. I have fantastic hatch rates so why bother!!!

 

[soulsong]

my fridge-abator holds 128 - 4 racks of 42
and I have the styrofoam incubators I use for a hatcher.
so if you have staggered hatches the styrofoam is big enough... unless you want to seperate your own eggs from swap eggs then you need 2 hatchers

I had to get a second this past week just for that reason.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I candled all eggs I received from my partner last night. 3 of 6 goose eggs and 1 of 2 turkeys are definitely veining. The other turkey egg looks 'odd', so it might be developing too. The other goose eggs look totally clear.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

got my eggs today couple didn't make it corner of the box was caved it

one was total mush and another had cracke all the way around it hope the other 5 do good

 

[elieugene6]

Candled my eggs last night. 3 turkeys definitely developing, 1 unsure and I think the other 2 are clear. Left them in for now though.

I have 2 dozen more jersey giant eggs to be set on saturday so might have to make room if none are showing by then. The 3 that are you can definitely tell. The olive eggs I received are going to have to stay til the end unless they stink as I can't even see the air cell through them they are so dark. I normally don't have a problem with blue/green eggs or welsummer eggs but these I can't see anything. My light is pretty high powered to. The lighter eggs blue/green 1 of 2 is definitely developing and 2 of the white are.

I counted on tossing a bunch of eggs, but that didn't happen so now I have to put the top shelf back in as the bator is FULL already. Lol. I love having that problem. Good thing a bunch go into lockdown soon.