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

[dandydoodle]

Going to move my broody to my new broody pen tonight. Only 6 days left!

My broody won't let me move her. If I do she stops sitting on the eggs. I am using a bator this time though.

Good luck,

 

[dandydoodle]

Thank you dandydoodle Thats what I was thinking too I just wish it wasnt a silkie eggs only got 5 more silkie eggs under her but I still have the other 11 or 12 chicken eggs besides the silkie eggs.

Sorry sweety, I know it stinks hopefully it makes you feel better that it probably wasn't viable anyway.

 

[dandydoodle]

Thanks.

It's not a digital like you have to press a button for, its the type that has a probe and measures inside/outside temps and humidity. It's meant to go on a windowsill or something and put the wire through the window to measure both the temp and humidity inside your house and out. Alot of people swear by them and it had been accurate so far but just went nutty.

The LG thermometer is the Little Giant one that came with the incubator. It's mercury so probably the most accurate.


I threw the digital one out and got one for a fishtank. The three are reading within a degree. I guess any damage that was done is done, and I'm just going to have to deal with it. I think your right and since the bad one was reading so high that I may have been incubating much lower than I should have been, which hopefully only delayed my hatch but didn't cook my chickies.

I'm glad I figured it all out when I put these new eggs in. They were only a bit screwy for day one, and should be a better hatch than the others because we worked out those issues.

Good luck

 

[Chicken Tamer]

I just hope most hatch because I have 2 people who want silkies already!!! Here is the silkies that the eggs came from

Heres the rooster and the 2 photo is the faverolle hen that the faverolle eggs are coming from and the third is the americanas that the americana eggs are coming from.


The white one by my turkey is the one that is laying most eggs. And the rooster is the colorful one nxt to her.

 

[dandydoodle]

I just hope most hatch because I have 2 people who want silkies already!!! Here is the silkies that the eggs came from

Heres the rooster and the 2 photo is the faverolle hen that the faverolle eggs are coming from and the third is the americanas that the americana eggs are coming from.


The white one by my turkey is the one that is laying most eggs. And the rooster is the colorful one nxt to her.

Pretty!!!!

You are interested in two silkie hens and a starter faverolle group are you? Splash Faverolle roo and two hens. Boy and one of the girls is a little over a year and one of the hens is about 4 months. They are beautiful.

 

[Chicken Tamer]

No I am not intrested in a silkie and faverolle group those are mine LoL The faverolle has already hatched once at someones elses house.

 

[cluckitall]

Hi everybody! It's been a busy few days -- company Tuesday and then everything in my garden came ripe at once, go figure! I keep jumping online then having to run and do stuff, darn it. So let me go catch up! I hope everybody's "nest" is doing well!

 

[cluckitall]

Ok been busy working but wanted to check in. I set my eggs on the 24th and candled on the 4th I am happy to report 18 out of the 24 are very active not sure about number 19 left it in and will check it in the morning. So ready for lock down. We got two new Buff rooster 5 months old monster big. Sweet birds, will post pictures soon of our flock.

Yay, Ranny! That's great!!!

 

[cluckitall]

I know its funny though. I can see it if they were all hang in out in the garden or something like that. I have come out though and they will all be standing in a circle looking at each other and I am talking in about a 5 foot diameter. They look like they are having a meeting or something. LOL!!! Its cute though.

As long as they're not staging a coup....

 

[cluckitall]

OH NOOOOOO!!!

I think I may have been either WAY hot, or WAY cool in my bator for a few days.
I have three thermometers, I took the two with hygrometers out of the incubator to check the temps and humidity of my new hatcher while building it and left the third. No adjustments, holding steady temps.

I added my Delawares and Barred Rocks last night and put all three thermometers back into the incubator. Well, my digital one is reading 105 degrees, my hygrometer/thermometer (reptile thermometer) is reading 99.5 and my little plastic one that came with the LG is reading somewhere between 98 and 100 (that one is really difficult to read through that little window). I had been making the adjustments based on the digital one!! They had all been reading the same thing before I moved them around. And they have been there all night, so I know they have had plenty of time to adjust.

I'm buying some new aquarium thermometers today. I just hope I didn't ruin my whole hatch. I have been losing so many eggs and I had thinking it was because they were shipped.

Hatching is tough.

Eek!!!

That's scary!!! I got a bad shock yesterday morning coming down and finding my water wiggler at 100.3! I'm hoping it didn't hurt anything -- I can't tell anymore on candling. That's one thing I've learned -- with my chickens (who now lay very hard, strong-shelled brown eggs) and the led flashlight I currently have, the best time for me to candle eggs is between days 5 and 7. Before that there isn't much going on yet and after that it gets REALLY hard to see! At this point the only things I can tell are the size of the big dark part (sometimes I can see it wiggle a bit, but only on the lightest-colored eggs) and the size of the air pocket (which has me a bit concerned -- the air pocket on a few of them looks worrisomely small...) In other words, I really can't tell if there was any damage done or not. I'm going to candle again before lockdown, and if the big dark part has gotten even bigger on all of them, I guess that'll mean they're okay.

I still don't know what made it spike -- I haven't adjusted the thermostat settings, and after opening the bator to turn eggs, the wiggler dropped back down to 99.3 - 99.5, which is where it's sat ever since. Go figure!