Putting eggs in the bator on July 25, does anyone wanna hatch along???

[Zchicks]

I am using a DIY styrofoam cooler with a 25 watt bulb and small desk fan. I am also hand turning. I don't expect a spectacualr hatch percentage given my set up but it's great fun for me and the kids.

 

[dandydoodle]

I am sure everything will go well. I mean even if you only get a couple its still a victory. :0)

 

[dandydoodle]

What are you incubating ? Like breed

Who are you asking?

 

[dandydoodle]

My tracking number finally came. The order from MPC left the hatchery on the 26th. Coming from Arkansas, so my guess is Monday. Also getting some local barnyard mixes on August 1.

So, I'll have:
7 Red Cochin- set 7/26
12+ assorted breeds- set 7/30
12 mixed- set 8/1

Using a LG still air with automatic egg turner. Dry incubation (which is currently 48% humidity)

What is everyone else's setup?

The ones you are planning to put in on the 30th you should probably wait and put in with the ones going in on the 1st. Wouldn't want you to have babies that need to come out of the bator while some of the ones from the 1st are starting to pip. You don't want to open it when they are pipped because, you might shrink wrap them. Anyway just a suggestion.

You did say this is your first time right? If you have any questions I will try to help. I am not an expert but, I have done it a few times. Your Cochins will probably have just finished hatching when your others start to pip, so I think you should be good there. You are hatching everyone in the same bator right?

 

[litljenarey]

The ones you are planning to put in on the 30th you should probably wait and put in with the ones going in on the 1st. Wouldn't want you to have babies that need to come out of the bator while some of the ones from the 1st are starting to pip. You don't want to open it when they are pipped because, you might shrink wrap them. Anyway just a suggestion.

You did say this is your first time right? If you have any questions I will try to help. I am not an expert but, I have done it a few times. Your Cochins will probably have just finished hatching when your others start to pip, so I think you should be good there. You are hatching everyone in the same bator right?

I was thinking the same thing but my concern was that the ones coming on the 30th would be shipped. I'm in Florida and the outdoor temps have been 90+ and I'm not home to pick up eggs. They would be sitting at least 4 hours in the sun on my doorstep.

They came today and it was just what I thought. I picked up from the post office and they had included a cold pack but even the cold pack was warm when I got them. So I set them in a carton next to the incubator for roughly 4 hours and then they went into the bator.

I'm going to try to borrow or buy another incubator to hatch in.


On a side note, I'm a bit disappointed in the "assortment" from My Pet Chicken which was only three different breeds. They sent 14 eggs, 10 small white ones marked "po", 2 large brown eggs marked "slw", one blue and one green both marked "eew". My guess is 10 polish, 2 silver laced wyandottes, and 2 easter eggers.

 

[Zchicks]

That's right. Thanks!

 

[Zchicks]

I was thinking the same thing but my concern was that the ones coming on the 30th would be shipped. I'm in Florida and the outdoor temps have been 90+ and I'm not home to pick up eggs. They would be sitting at least 4 hours in the sun on my doorstep.

They came today and it was just what I thought. I picked up from the post office and they had included a cold pack but even the cold pack was warm when I got them. So I set them in a carton next to the incubator for roughly 4 hours and then they went into the bator.

I'm going to try to borrow or buy another incubator to hatch in.


On a side note, I'm a bit disappointed in the "assortment" from My Pet Chicken which was only three different breeds. They sent 14 eggs, 10 small white ones marked "po", 2 large brown eggs marked "slw", one blue and one green both marked "eew". My guess is 10 polish, 2 silver laced wyandottes, and 2 easter eggers.

Yeah, that doesn't seem like a good 'assortment' at all.

 

[Ranny]

I built a incubator out of a old Rubbermaid cooler. 25watt bulb and small fan from a heater. I built a manual turner so I don't have to open it to turn the eggs. I am at 99.6 deg. an 60% on humidity.

 

[Aschenfire]

I wanted to handle these eggs as little as possible this hatch since I have a LOT of loose air cels, but I decided to quickly candle a few this evening (mostly to check air cels) and saw veining in some of those I checked...I did not linger, so they all may have growth...I only peeked at 5 or 6 of 17....Its only day 3, so I'm going to leave them be till day 7 and see what's going on then ^..^

 

[litljenarey]

I held off candling anything until tonight and I shouldn't have. I very simply used a cheap-o flashlight and my hand. The first one I saw what looked like two circles in the large end of the egg. The second looked like the same. Third the same. The fourth had a circle at the end and a small dark area near the center of the egg. All I saw in the fourth was a single circle at the large end of egg. Then I stopped.

I need a brighter light, a darker room, or something. I didn't see anything that looked anything like the candling pictures I see on here. No veins in anything. It should be day 4/5, been in the incubator for 100 hours.

sigh