Welcome to the craziness!!Hi everyone! New to the forum though have used it for a while when needing info on hatching, just now finally decided to actually sign up (not sure why it took so long). Just put my first turkey eggs in today, I've done chickens but no turkeys yet so hopefully everything turns out
LOL!!!!! I showed my daughter Harmony she is like "Mom that's not funny, your old" I was like yea no #$%# brat lol
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Hi everyone! New to the forum though have used it for a while when needing info on hatching, just now finally decided to actually sign up (not sure why it took so long). Just put my first turkey eggs in today, I've done chickens but no turkeys yet so hopefully everything turns out
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ok.. first.. bacteria can still thrive in the nooks and crannies.. on the back of the fan blades .. pretty much in and little crevasse that you may have missed. We would have that issue in the commercial bators and hatchers when I worked at the hatchery.. so every so often EVERYTHING needs a good disinfecting
Carbon Dioxide Poisoning.. caused when more oxygen is being used/needed than is coming into the bator.. carbon dioxide builds up which is toxic and can cause death
when you first add eggs they don't need as much oxygen as the chicks do once they start developing.. as time gets closer to hatch and the lungs start to develop they need even more.. at hatch when they start to pip.. they need even more .. so if you have a bator with three eggs in it.. it will need less oxygen than a bator filled to the brim
as the chicks breathe they inhale oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide ... just like you or a cow would.. being in a closed environment eventually the oxygen runs out if there isn't enough fresh air coming in to replenish the oxygen that they are using up. This is why I always tell people that vents must be completely OPEN at hatch.. sure you may have chicks hatch out with them closed.. but you run a much higher risk of carbon dioxide building up and killing them if there isn't enough fresh air exchange. Many times if carbon dioxide is an issue you will have a few chicks hatch out.. then a lot of dead in the shell perfectly healthy looking chicks.. that's because the ones which hatched are using up the oxygen.. and the ones which are working hard at hatching just don't have enough entering through the shell (or the pip if they have gotten that far) to sustain them until they can hatch.
"Dead Air" is also an issue.. it's the lack of airflow AROUND the incubator.. carbon dioxide can build up in the space between the bator and the wall.. so the "fresh air" entering the bator is laden with excess carbon dioxide. They discovered that in the commercial industry.. so incubators and hatchers must have plenty of space between the back and wall in commercial hatcheries. In the home this can be an issue with incubators that are against walls.. in closets or other rooms where there isn't enough air flow in the room itself. It can be remedied by the use of fans if space is too limited around the bator itself (narrow dressers or tables which are just wide enough to hold the bator but is up against the wall is also an example)... The main issue with a fan blowing directly behind or onto a bator is that if there are temp fluctuations in the room it can add to those issues.
One other thing to remember is that at hatch .. when the humidity rises (either by your adding water or chicks hatching) is that humid warm air holds LESS oxygen than humid cool air. So the oxygen level of the air actually goes DOWN as you raise the humidity in a hot bator.. one remedy for this is to drop the temp at hatch by 1 to 1.5 degrees when you raise the humidity. It's one of the things I recommend for hatching pretty much any kind of bird.. but especially waterfowl, parrots and turkeys. If you only have a few eggs in a bator.. it's less of an issue than if the bator is filled to capacity.
Luckily I learned from "the best" .. lol.. my ancestors hatched out birds for as long as the history on them goes back (several hundred years according to the family historian).. and they passed down their tricks and tips through the generations.. plus I also had the honor of having Janice Castleberry give me lots of tips and pointers.. she is also one who stressed to me the importance of "dead air" since she had issues with it back when she first started hatching out ratites
as a note: With emu chicks you can tell if carbon dioxide is building up too much at hatch because the chicks will have red around their eyes!..
edited to fix typos.. that's what I get for typing in the dark.. lol
I just took off the giant pieces of poop/dirt... THEN I accidentally cracked one of my little eggs trying to set up the bars in my (new!) brinsea eco! I put some nail polish on it and crossed my fingers... I ended up using a egg carton with the bottoms cut out because I couldn't get the bars to set properly for me. I think if I had more eggs I wouldn't have such a problem. Hopefully things are smooth sailing from here on out! 
THaqnks for the CLiff Notes!!
Second Annual Cinco De Mayo Turkey Hatch a Long Digest: 4-14-2013
Razadia posted picutues of her chicks.Some of them are bald
Razadia will be looking for fertile grocery store eggs tomorrow. Udate: No eggs were found so now Razadia will be egg bombed!
ceocka has a lot of poultry! 65 plus 4 plus 3 all hatched this week!
CayuseRanch wants to be egg bombed with Silver Campine hatching eggs!
dsqard popped her tutors into the Bator--DH may or may not have noticed the extra brown eggs....
SCG has a hatch going and more will hatch while in Utah--BF will have to deal with that hatch!
Ducks go on wire bottom cages ASAP....
Lotsapaints hatched 76 chicks yesterday.
Sally Sunshine posted chick pictures too
Wax Myrtle has 100% Development and loves candling white egg!Jessshan8 has 6 of 8 developing!
Bunnylady is not hatching eggs...Walks away queitly so no one sees....
thebirdguy had 75 quail egg come by special delivery today.
gryeys set her tutors!Wolfie is having hatch problems
Temp variations? Bacteria build up?
Carbon dioxide poisining will need to be explained. Stay tuned for more....
chooksChick is in the Money now! eggs are developing! pens are producing and a sales web page will be going up!
Happy Sunday!
