setting eggs tomorrow.... 3-21-12 who wants to join?

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DirtCreature said:
do i have to calabrate it right away?! i thought they where good to go right when you turned them on?! oh no! i was about to set my eggs!


The humidity level is used to control the rate of evaporation in the eggs, so I don't think it's critical right now. I always calibrate mine because sometimes they are inaccurate, for instance, the one I am using is off by 9%, but it's a cheap model. If you have something better then yours might be good to go. It can be calibrated overnight though, and I don't think it would harm your eggs to have them in the incubator overnight while you check the accuracy of your hydrometer.
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DirtCreature said:
WELL! sorry to let you guys down, but since my eggs where shipped, and i dont know hardly anything about hatching eggs, i found out i have to wait until tomorrow to put them in the bator....! so i will be a day behind you guys. LOL. oh the joys of hatching eggs for the first time!
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Lol! No worries! Some of ours will probably be late, or yours will be early...
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Nothing ever seems to go as planned.
 
I'll join, even though I'm a bit ahead. I set eggs on the afternoon of 3/20. I've got them at my son's preschool though. It's an exercise in patience- I can't obsessively check on them. They are going to be out of school on spring break from days 10-19, so I think I'm going to take them home during that time so that I'm not relying on the director to get in the school and add water.

I set 3 BCM eggs, 3 lavender ameraucana eggs (daddy may or may not be lav ameraucana as well), and 1 lav amer/bcm split (daddy unknown).
 
DirtCreature said:
WELL! sorry to let you guys down, but since my eggs where shipped, and i dont know hardly anything about hatching eggs, i found out i have to wait until tomorrow to put them in the bator....! so i will be a day behind you guys. LOL. oh the joys of hatching eggs for the first time! :lau
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No let down at all. I"m right there with you because I don't know anything about hatching eggs either. :gig My broody hens always hatched their own. This will be my 2nd time putting eggs in the incubator because NONE OF THE EGGS HATCHED THE FIRST TIME !!!!!!!!!! :somad I was so upset. I was a first timer when I did it, so I'm a first timer again because I lost all of the eggs. I"m hoping for a good hatch this time. :fl
 
Sphinx said:
I'll join, even though I'm a bit ahead. I set eggs on the afternoon of 3/20.  I've got them at my son's preschool though. It's an exercise in patience- I can't obsessively check on them. They are going to be out of school on spring break from days 10-19, so I think I'm going to take them home during that time so that I'm not relying on the director to get in the school and add water.

I set 3 BCM eggs, 3 lavender ameraucana eggs (daddy may or may not be lav ameraucana as well), and 1 lav amer/bcm split (daddy unknown).
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I was given a dozen French Black Copper Marans and a dozen Black Copper Marans courtesy of Mr. Robby at JamesMarieFarms in Church Point, LA. I told him about my disaster with my first batch of eggs and he was so nice and kind to give me 2 dozen eggs free. I am excited. :celebrate

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