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[nnbreeder]

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Humidity is to low, this will cause you to lose chicks that will never make it out of shell. Get a wash cloth, old sock, etc and soak it in hot water and put it in there sopping wet to raise humidity, this works for me.

During the hatch is the only time I even worry about humidity becuase of what you described. The first 18 days I just make sure theres water in the bator.

Once humidity is good another bit of advice is to take the wife on a nice two or three day holiday. Come back collect the chicks and clean out the incubator.

Seriously though it is hard to just watch a hatch going on. Those chicks have a built-in life support system that will carry them over for at least three days so a little time inside the incubator will not hurt them at all.

 

[GotGame]

Got another question, about same thing....Ok, on this batch of eggs, I had 2 pip and hatch on day 19, half a dozen hatched on day 20 and 21, I opened hatcher up this morning, had 2 that were zipped but still in shell, and 4 that had not pipped at all. I opened the ones that had not pipped at all, fully developed alive chicks that had pipped membrane, and seem find and healthy, and 2 of them still had a lot of blood in the shell. Why are the hatches dragging out so bad? All bantam eggs....

 

[GotGame]

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Humidity is to low, this will cause you to lose chicks that will never make it out of shell. Get a wash cloth, old sock, etc and soak it in hot water and put it in there sopping wet to raise humidity, this works for me.

During the hatch is the only time I even worry about humidity becuase of what you described. The first 18 days I just make sure theres water in the bator.

Once humidity is good another bit of advice is to take the wife on a nice two or three day holiday. Come back collect the chicks and clean out the incubator.

Seriously though it is hard to just watch a hatch going on. Those chicks have a built-in life support system that will carry them over for at least three days so a little time inside the incubator will not hurt them at all.

I know what you mean, I am pretty good about not messing with the chicks, but this hatch has been bad about being spread out....I have been guilty a time or two fo helping a chicks out that got stuck

....I dont feel that I am necessarily helping weak chicks as they were gettin the membrane stuck to them, so that was my fault, not theirs...gonna keep that sponge in there from now on....

 

[GotGame]

Btw, does anyone on here collect neat or vintage hatchers, incubators, etc....If so, give me a hollar, got an awesome little hatcher made from cedar...I can bring it to poops

 

[NanaKat]

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would be nice to get another swarm for your colonies!

 

[NanaKat]

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NanaKat - guinea eggs come in several different colors - but their distinguishing feature is the shape - rather pointed on one end so that they remind me of a triangle with the egg sack at the broad end. To the best of my eyesight, I only have two different colors of guineas - pearl and lavendar - but the eggs vary in color from light cream with no spots to tan with small spots. They are about the size of a bantam egg.

Oh good, Thanks P&B. I have two guinea eggs in the incubator....like I said Pot Luck...

 

[poultryand bees]

The Cement auction was well attended by BYC folks last night. The front row consisted of AL and his lovely wife, Gerald and Carla, Rebecca/Muesky, Buster, and me. We of course saw those working the auction - Peaches and Partywyn and SgtMck1/Andy - and some other folks that I don't know well enough to name (or whose name I don't recall at the moment). Hatching eggs sold pretty cheap, although Carla's blue copper maran eggs (the ones I was bidding on and didn't get) did fairly well. Overall, it seems to be a buyer's market - which was sad for those who were selling. It was fun to see a number of darling chicks of the breeds that Carla and Geralds raise - knowing they were hatched from eggs purchased from Carla and Gerald at a previous auction, but not hatched by Carla. Michael D was there and helped raise the prices on the birds with his bids, and he was a major buyer.

Monty - I bought a dozen Gold Campine eggs for $1. I was going to give them to you until I remembered that you don't raise them anymore. Since they are white eggs, I may make them into egg salad rather than try and hatch them.

I came home with some Narragansett poults and a pair of barred NNs.

Peaches was too busy to bid on the NNs, so I paid a pittance for them. (sorry, Andy)

Some of us went to Trivetts restaurant in Elgin for dinner afterwards and we learned the truth - Laura made those gorgeous artichokes that Al posted a picture of a few days ago. AL, on behalf of Laura

 

[okcarla]

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We had fun last night too. Yes, it was great that Laura came with Al to give us the other side of Al's stories.

 

[BetsyOK]

Vashi and I are staying at the Budget Inn also. Eager to see everyone!

 

[al6517]

LOL You guy's are killing me, I finally got her to make something for me !! one dish which it took me a few years to teach her to make, and look at what happens

I had a good time last night as well.