Setting Eggs Sept. 24th-Oct. 4th-Last Hatch of the Year. Anyone care to join me?

Thank you for those who replied. I'm not returning to that thread, nor am I returning to the other areas of the forum. I couldn't resist being back to THIS specific thread when I found out from a very nice member who gave me specific instructions on how to log in, go to another member's page, and block them. They said I won't be able to see their posts anymore, so for me that is the obvious route I will take (see no evil, hear no evil). I wish I would have known about that option before...but I'm glad I know about it for future reference. SO I'm back (only on this thread as it is my favorite thread) and maybe in a few weeks time I'm stretch my legs out like a chick does..lol..and venture out into the big world of the rest of the forum. :)

My eggs are doing really well tonight (except the one I broke initially, still sad about that little egger). All day today the temp hung around 101 (it's a still-air incubator so I'm told 101 is good). The humidity is at 53%...which I think is good too. I turned them 5 times today and shut the light off in that room around 9pm. My Brinsea Octagon 20 arrived today as well, but I really don't want to move the eggs, so I guess I will just use that one the next time around.

My husband and I are freezing our tushies off at certain times of the day, and roasting half to death at other times of the day, all for the sake of regulating the air in the bator room, but it's all worth it for fluffies to pop out next month!

I will tell everyone this (because none of you know me yet). I will never have thick skin, and I will never attempt to have thick skin, nor will I ever remotely desire to have thick skin. Having squishy skin is what makes me happy, and bouncy and chipper and cheerful and nice to everyone (unless they're nasty to me). I'm clay on a wheel, and if clay gets too thick - you pretty much can't do anything with it. I don't want to be thick clay.
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I apologize if my bubbly, chatty, giggly personality is offensive, but now you know you always have the option to block me!
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I'm happy to be back and I'm not going anywhere ( I missed the people on this thread too much anyway, so I'm glad I was told about blocking, solves the problem.)

HOW ARE EVERYONE'S CLUCKIES?? Anything pipping, popping, hopping, beat-boxing, peepin' shell-push? I'll go through the recent posts and see.
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GREAT to have you back!!!!
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I just put 24 brown eggs in the incubator yesterday...dont know what kind the are

and I have broody silkies sitting on eggs.
 
I am not getting my email for this thread though I am subscribed. I was wondering why there wasn't any posting going on. I am getting the calendar picture contest email just fine.

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Good luck everyone!!!!!
 
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[Edit/Update] Formerly Known as ChickyBangBang (decided I didn't like the name because it sounded like I was shooting a chicken). You can't change your username so I made another account and sent BYC a message in reply to their initial welcome message. Anyway...still me.

Well, today is a good day and a bad day for my eggers. The temp and humidity is still doing great (the incubator is a cheapy but it seems to be doing just fine regardless).

The bad: Something stinks in there, and I'm not sure why? This is only Day 2 of incubation, and I thought it wasn't until they were well into the incubation period when something might die and start stinking? Why stink on the 2nd day? To be honest, I thought it might have been the puppy tooting, because he was in there with me.
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...but it wasn't him, as I went in and turned them a few minutes ago and the stinky is still there.

I picked up one egg at a time and sniffed it, and honestly they all smelled the same (like an egg, nothing stinky) but when I lift the top of the bator there's definitely a slight sulphur smell. It's very slight though (nothing overwhelming).

I guess I'm just wondering at THIS stage (Day 2) how the heck I'm supposed to be able to tell which egg is the culprit? Sniffing them doesn't work (or my sniffer is broken, maybe).

Thanks in advance.
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