Ready Set Hatch! Set 3/17 Hatch 4/7 - ready now! Hatch-Along

[Dylon]

Is anyone here familiar with the Little Giant still air incubator? Well I need advice. The directions say that I need to remove both ventilation hole plugs one the day before hatching... I'm sure it will effect my humidity but will the temp stay constant with both of the holes open and not just one ?

 

[DURR]

I hate my phone and its double posts. :/

 

[DURR]

Is anyone here familiar with the Little Giant still air incubator? Well I need advice. The directions say that I need to remove both ventilation hole plugs one the day before hatching... I'm sure it will effect my humidity but will the temp stay constant with both of the holes open and not just one ?

I have a forced air, and I leave my plugs out after the first ten days but I never have an increase or decrease in heat when they are in or out I think it'll only effect your humidity since you do have a thermastat. ( My home-made bator w/o thermastat would drop when I opened the vent holes due to not having a temp regulator) with the added heat released your incubator should kick on to keep it at a stable temp, and for humidity boosts use a wet rag or sponge to keep it where you need it.

 

[Dylon]

Thanks. I actually filled a bowl with water and tried to use and air pump from a fish tank in there, and it actually brought it up to slightly over 70 % humidity .. which is great, but might be too much for right now but I think it will be perfect for lockdown

 

[bamachicks8]

Is anyone here familiar with the Little Giant still air incubator? Well I need advice. The directions say that I need to remove both ventilation hole plugs one the day before hatching... I'm sure it will effect my humidity but will the temp stay constant with both of the holes open and not just one ?

Dylon IM using an lg I put Clorox multi use clothes around all 4 corners and put in the tubing fille all the holes with water and make sure the paper towels are touching the holes. my humidity is holding at 77%. there is also a thread called Little giant incubator tricks.

 

[Bens-Hens]

I don't use a water wiggler...so ignorance is bliss for now! I have two temp probes that the tip rests on the floor. It hangs on the cables so the majority is at 'egg center' but it still only measures air temp. The case around the probe means it will always measure air temp even it touching the side, floor or an egg.

So, in an effort to to SOMETHING I started up our second incubator (Hova-bator still air modified with a CPU fan) Will be suing this for part one of our staggered hatch. We will be moving eggs tomorrow night for lock down, while our part 2 eggs continue to roll about in the first 'bator.

The time is near. A hatch window of 5 days is going to keep me busy. (Part 1 is Fri-Sun and part 2 is Sun-Tue if everything sticks to plan!)

 

[Wrightsx4]

I've decided I need to stop taking each egg's temperature. It's making me crazy. I moved the hot corner temp probe to mid-egg level but not touching and it only read 98 so I turned it back up just a tiny bit. Now for the self control. I'm going to do a quick candle of a hot corner egg and a cool corner egg today to see that all is well...that will help the "don't panic thought process" if both eggs are good.

 

[Bens-Hens]

Hahahahha, I don't mean to laugh at you, but I find it funny as I thought I was a bit obsessive about temps so it funny to see someone else stressing just as much.

Actually, this hatch I feel far more laid back. I check it all the time, but the slight variation in temps and humidity don't seem as stressful as last time.

I guess just thinking mum would get up and walk around, the ambient temps would vary, some eggs would be in the middle of the clutch while others were on the edge and so on. Nature has made it that way, and my incubator seems far more steady than natures conditions, so we have a bit of flexibility.

Once this one is over I should get my office back......well, depends how successful it is. I did find a local lady that sell Buff Orpington eggs

Your eggs are in good hands Pam.

How did #10 candle btw?

 

[ladyrsanti]

I just have a single analog thermometer in the corner that only registers to 100. That's it for temp readings in my incubator.

 

[Wrightsx4]

Yes- I'm obsessive
I tend to take temps of each egg and map it...throughout the day. I don't have to open the incubator - it's a probe type through a vent. If I had a thermometer with an alarm it would be on #10 all the time. I'm way more stressed than last time, probably because of #10 being in there.
I'm trying to be a little more laid back. I've suspended the temp probe in the air (gasp!) Between the eggs. I took a sample of eggs from each corner, okay I really candled over half the eggs.
All are too dark to see much but that's good. Where I couldn't see movement I could see the little bit of veins. #10 looks good, still moving so slightly smaller. My DD's lone silkie I'm worried a out. The chick is alive and moving but extremely small - like 1/3 of the egg and the saddle shaped air cell looks huge. This is a shipped egg. It's positioned away from the fan so it's not getting more draft than the others, and the fan doesn't blow onto any of them. All other air cells look right in target. I think it's due to the oddly shaped air pocket.
Bama - nice pipping & zipping! Any chicks this morning?