My Hatching Journey: the Adventures of a Complete Newbie

[BantyChooks]

I started gathering for set on the 24th but may start from the 25th enough to fill the incubator and then some on the eggs . My EEs lay pretty blue eggs . and a good size . for a medium sized chicken.

X2! I have a few chickens. K has a ton!

K has something beyond a ton.

My thermo setup, it goes to the right height on a bantam egg so I might have to fiddle with it for LF:

I think I know what went wrong... With temps set exactly as they were before, (I sharpied a line where I had it set for the whole set period and room temps are the same) it read 105 at the new measurement level.
No, that was not a typo. Now I feel really stupid.
If that is correct, than it spiked to 108 at the highest... Which would explain everything. If only I had measured a few inches higher... I might have had chicks. Y'all are free to laugh at me now.

Maybe I can actually hatch something this time, now that I know what happened.

 

[FridayYet]

No laughing from me.....

 

[Ravynscroft]

Me neither... sorry, that sucks...

But at least you know now what happened...

 

[BantyChooks]

No laughing from me.....

Thanks. I just feel bad knowing if I had read up on embryo position and temp measuring in still air I wouldn't have killed those chicks... Oh well, that's one mistake I won't repeat.

Me neither... sorry, that sucks...

But at least you know now what happened...

Thank you...
Here's hoping I don't win the worst hatch award at the EHAL. Small goals.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Thanks. I just feel so bad knowing if I had read up on embryo position and temp measuring in still air I wouldn't have killed those chicks...
Thank you...
Yeah. Here's hoping I don't win the worst hatch award at the EHAL.
-Banti

You'll do just fine! You got new thermos, set at right height and learned from the first try...

 

[FridayYet]

Thanks.

I just feel so bad knowing if I had read up on embryo position and temp measuring in still air I wouldn't have killed those chicks...

Thank you...

Yeah. Here's hoping I don't win the worst hatch award at the EHAL.

-Banti

I'll have a dozen shipped eggs, so that's an award I'll be in the running for.....

 

[BantyChooks]

You'll do just fine! You got new thermos, set at right height and learned from the first try...

I do hope so... But you are right, I am much more prepared now.

I'll have a dozen shipped eggs, so that's an award I'll be in the running for.....

Oh I hope not.

 

[BantyChooks]

New humidity system, works great and saves more space:

 

[FridayYet]

New humidity system, works great and saves more space:

Nice!

 

[BYC910]

LOL.

My thermo setup, it goes to the right height on a bantam egg so I might have to fiddle with it for LF:



@BYC910

Oh, and I think I know what went wrong... With temps set exactly as they were before, (I sharpied a line where I had it set for the whole set period and room temps are the same) it read 105 at the new measurement level.

No, that was not a typo!!! Now I feel really stupid.

If that is correct, than it spiked to 108 at the highest... Which would explain everything. If only I had measured a few inches higher... I might have had chicks...

I'm just gonna sit here and kick myself for an hour or two... DOH!!!! ALL my fault, every single inch. Y'all are free to laugh at me now.

(Hey, maybe I can actually hatch something this time, now that I know what happened!!)

-Banti

no hatching is a self taught art. I should have picked up on the placement of your hygro . sorry . the plus is you didn't buy eggs . these are the kinds of things I do all the time. we all do. there is all ways a reason. figuring it out and making it work that is the hard part . lets hope this is and was the reason . thermo placement looks good where is the hygro .?I can't remember did you add water last hatch . run it dry until the eggs are in and the temperature is stabilized .