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

[Fur N Feathers]

It's a shot :/?? dang... that's a really good one thought it was a painting.

Yeah I KNOW!!! She has another shot of them in the silkie thread I believe it is. Yes, post 25522 on page 2553. I'll try to link it:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/297632/silkie-thread/25520

 

[Fur N Feathers]

I have a question. I have read that if an egg has a crack, if you seal it with something it may still develop. I just recently read on here that someone used candle wax and it was still developing, but read on another thread that someone had used purple fingernail polish on hers and it was developing as well. My question is, wouldn't the chemicals in the nail polish be damaging to a developing chick? It seems like the chemicals would absorb through the crack very easily.

 

[debchick]

Ok I'm on a roll first broody batch 4 out of 4 yipee!

next hatch I think Oct 17th 14 EE cant see anything to dark so have to wait and see then next broody hen hatch the 19th 6 eggs all look good so far omg I need a vacation. this is really addicting.

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

'Bama you're my neighbor! I have a bad problem of staying up to 3-5am and then getting up around 10-12pm. Really bad habit I have gotten myself into. I don't even hear my roo crowing in the morning!

LOL I do almost the same but with 3-4 hrs sleep im back out the door to work

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Ok, how do I fix? I have a LG syrofoam incubator with fan, no turner. Do I put in a jar of water?..I have small baby food jars..can do that. How do I fix losing humidity to the ambient air?

I have a plate in the bottom of mine to hold water, What do you have as far as air exchange? Mines got 6 1/4" holes.

 

[tbyersdorf]

I have a plate in the bottom of mine to hold water, What do you have as far as air exchange? Mines got 6 1/4" holes.

I've got 8 small holes on the top plus the two big vents. Looks like maybe 4 holes on the bottom, but I don't have the incubator raised....so not sure the 4 on the bottom do much. The holes are probably 1/4" holes.

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Can you take some pics of the vents?

 

[Brookhavens]

I have a question. I have read that if an egg has a crack, if you seal it with something it may still develop. I just recently read on here that someone used candle wax and it was still developing, but read on another thread that someone had used purple fingernail polish on hers and it was developing as well. My question is, wouldn't the chemicals in the nail polish be damaging to a developing chick? It seems like the chemicals would absorb through the crack very easily.

The last hatch I had a chipped egg and used beeswax to seal it. The chick developed to term but never hatched. I had read that you could use nail polish and I thought the same thing about the fumes and chemicals but apparently people have had them hatch fine with it so I used it this time on my one silkie egg with the crack. I was going to use wax but the crack was so large that I thought the nail polish would go on in a finer line than the wax.

 

[Brookhavens]

Ok I'm on a roll first broody batch 4 out of 4 yipee!

next hatch I think Oct 17th 14 EE cant see anything to dark so have to wait and see then next broody hen hatch the 19th 6 eggs all look good so far omg I need a vacation. this is really addicting.

Mother Nature at her best!!!

 

[Brookhavens]

I've got 8 small holes on the top plus the two big vents. Looks like maybe 4 holes on the bottom, but I don't have the incubator raised....so not sure the 4 on the bottom do much. The holes are probably 1/4" holes.

You may want to raise the incubator with a few pieces of wood or something underneath to allow air through them. To raise the humidity you could probably plug up one of the vent holes or one or two of the smaller holes. As for adding water you can use a sponge or piece of old tee shirt bunched up and then moisten it. If you can, place that under one of the air holes and you would just have to dribble water through the hole onto the sponge or cloth. That would save you from opening the bator all the time to add water. A piece of fishtank tubing run through one of the holes to the sponge would help even more. Then you would just need a syringe to squirt it into the tube.