Minnesota!

[MinnesotaNice]

Maybe 20 minutes or so

 

[lalaland]

Minnesotanice, how exciting! those first three months are exhausting. and how nice to have a summer baby!


I'm excited because I came home to a huge increase in eggs, doubled today but most of them were frozen and cracked open.

hooray for warmer weather!!

 

[scandiafowl]

Argh! My incubator is messing with me!
Temps keep jumping all over! *major grumble*

 

[KlopKlop]

Argh! My incubator is messing with me!
Temps keep jumping all over! *major grumble*

I have zero practical experience with incubating (YET!) but from what i have read, most people advise against chasing the temps i think. As in you might just make it worse. Are the temps fluctuating in the room where your incubator is due to the temp swing today? just a thought

 

[Minniechickmama]

Argh! My incubator is messing with me!
Temps keep jumping all over! *major grumble*

What kind of incubator and how many days did you go to regulate it? I say, give it 5 days to regulate and check it often to tweak it, otherwise, you will go through a few egg losses before it settles. I was impatient with my hatch in the fall and put them in when it wasn't quite ready and I lost 4/5 of the batch. Granted, some eggs were not fertile, about 5, but the rest I lost at various stages of the incubation.

If you want a sure fire incubation process, you have to fork out the money for a good one with electronic controls, like GQF or Brinsea.

 

[scandiafowl]

I'm thinking that I'll let the ladies do their what God intended for them to do. Otherwise it's time to invest in a decent incubator. Temps have leveled out and hopefully will remain so.

 

[scandiafowl]

And I like Brinsea incubators. Is that what you use?

 

[scandiafowl]

What kind of incubator and how many days did you go to regulate it?  I say, give it 5 days to regulate and check it often to tweak it, otherwise, you will go through a few egg losses before it settles.  I was impatient with my hatch in the fall and put them in when it wasn't quite ready and I lost 4/5 of the batch.  Granted, some eggs were not fertile, about 5, but the rest I lost at various stages of the incubation.

If you want a sure fire incubation process, you have to fork out the money for a good one with electronic controls, like GQF or Brinsea. 

I's been stable since I started the hatch on 04 January.

What I'm trying to calculate is the lock down period. We added eggs to the incubator the week of the 4th so they are scheduled to hatch the week of the 25th. Will the later eggs suffer if I lock down too soon?

 

[athalia17]

Yay! I sold one of my roosters last night (with some hens). Hopefully another person is coming to get another rooster today! Then that only leaves me with 3 ameraucana roosters, 1 lemon cuckoo rooster, 1 jubilee rooster, and 1 splash rooster. Long story short, if you are hoping to hatch out roosters... let me hatch your eggs for you- that's pretty much my specialty is mostly roos. Ugh.

 

[athalia17]

@scandiafowl
The only big issue that I know of with locking down too early is drowning in the shell if they can't lose the correct amount of moisture. If they were put in within a couple of days of each other, I think you'll be fine locking down on time. Do you circle the air pocket by drawing the outline with pencil (ok, I can't think of any technical terms this morning, sorry) to make sure that it is increasing in size?

I've hatched 3 rounds of eggs in my brinsea 20. I'm going to need to check heating though, had some curled toes. I guess too hot can do that. I have some blue orpington eggs coming this spring from Hog Creek and Papa's poultry. Super excited! Hope they are reputable. :/