Setting Eggs today!! (May 2nd) Anyone else?

[janelle18]

FIRST time hatching eggs! I have 12 Ameraucana eggs, 12 Light Sussex, 12 Welsummer and 7 Dorking! I'm so excited!

 

[rgvchicks]

hello.....set eggs yesterday....today is day 1 of the Fridgebator's Hatchalong thread i started......you are also welcomed to join in my thread.....good luck...........i set 58 eggs......12 old english bantam.....4 hennie's.....9 personal barnyard mix....9 silver phoenix.....and 24 barnyard mix of my neighbor's farm.......will be adding another 150 eggs this friday from my neighbor's farm also.........

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[mstricer]

I should be setting today. I think I'm going to wait until this weekend, so they will hatch on my days off.

 

[McKenley5]

I set 7 yesterday in my new Brinsea Mini Advance
4 light Sussex & 3 White Leghorns

 

[janelle18]

I have a sportsman incubator... not sure the model, it's an oldie.. but my dad hatched hundreds of quail out of it, and seems to be in good working condition!... now the waiting game begins!!

 

[rgvchicks]

... now the waiting game begins!!

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......and the last 3 days "lockdown" are the BEST!!!!!!

 

[SpiritedFarm]

i have an old sportsman too! works great!

 

[chickenslayer]

I really hope they make it....

 

[janelle18]

SpiritedFarms..what is your humidity level? Ours was 35% the first day, now today it is up to 45%.. we added and extra interior container of water.. but I have read on here that is should be more in the range of 50-60%, do I need to add more water inside? The incubator's system is a bucket on the outside, that runs into a container with a float.

 

[SpiritedFarm]

i think mine was modified along the way....and yes, mine has the bucket on top going into the container with the float.

I will confess i do not own a hygrometer. Mine has two thermostats. One (on the side closest to the door) reads the air temp, i keep this at 99.5
the second is connected to a cloth sleeve near the water container, first 18 days I run it between 82 & 86, during lockdown between 88 & 90.

I am doing my first staggered hatch right now, so i am going to purchase a hygrometer tomorrow actually, as I will need to really keep an eye on it.

I have had great success, my only complaint with mine is that there is not enough hatch room on the bottom for the amount of eggs it can incubate.

I had 7 dozen eggs layed on me (pardon the pun) by a supplier who I had purchased 4 dozen from and some of them had been a bit too old. She was very generous, but I dont have the space for all the lil fuzzbuttz to hatch. I have created a fencing system for one of the incubation trays. I will have chicks hatching on two levels. lol

I have about 36 due to hatch in 11 days and another 78 due to hatch a week later.