Setting up the bator and setting shipped eggs this week....anyone else wanna join?

[Gallina Sarda]

I candled my Catdance eggs late last night...it is day 13 and I was going to do it tonight, but started to look at a couple last night and before you know it I had them all done and checked off on my record keeping card!   Out of the 18 eggs (original sent was 24) I had only 1 that was questionable!  Some have kidney shaped aircells, but they were definitely active!  I am pleased to have so many still doing so well!   Lockdown in Sunday for me!

 

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[noahsmom]

I candled my Catdance eggs late last night...it is day 13 and I was going to do it tonight, but started to look at a couple last night and before you know it I had them all done and checked off on my record keeping card! Out of the 18 eggs (original sent was 24) I had only 1 that was questionable! Some have kidney shaped aircells, but they were definitely active! I am pleased to have so many still doing so well! Lockdown in Sunday for me!

Yay! thats really good Today is day 7 for me, I cant wait to candle when I get home from work! I'm record keeping too in a notebook.

 

[delisha]

I am impatiently waiting for those catdance to hatch.

 

[fishermans wife]

Ok, I am freaking out.... I went downstairs and my incubator was making a horrible noise (forced air fan) and the temp was 104. It wasn't there very long as I had turned the eggs a couple of hours before and everything was fine. I shut it off, cooled it down,and oiled the fan, tightened screws, etc. It seems to be fluctuating between 99and 102. I am so frustrated! I have not had one problem with it for 4 hatches! It is a odd brand - but has worked great. I don't know if I should go buy another incubator "in case". The only thing you can get around here is an LG - and they have terrible reviews. Maybe I should just buy one for backup - and see if they will take it back if I don't use it. ...


AAARRRGGGHHH! I just don't want to lose my Catdance babies!

 

[delisha]

Ok, I am freaking out.... I went downstairs and my incubator was making a horrible noise (forced air fan) and the temp was 104. It wasn't there very long as I had turned the eggs a couple of hours before and everything was fine. I shut it off, cooled it down,and oiled the fan, tightened screws, etc. It seems to be fluctuting between 99and 102. I am so frustrated! I have not had one problem with it for 4 hatches! It is a odd brand - but has worked great. I don't know if I should go buy another incubator "in case". The only thing you can get around here is an LG - and they have terrible reviews. Maybe I should just buy one for backup - and see if they will take it back if I don't use it. ...


AAARRRGGGHHH! I just don't want to lose my Catdance babies!

Man that sucks..I would just turn the turner on a few times a day while you stand there.

 

[fishermans wife]

I don't have a turner - it is the heat/fan making the noise - and It isn't regulating the heat correctly. I have 3 thermometers in there - and each one reads differently, so that isn't helping! I did run to town and by an LG in case....they said I could bring it back....so bummed. I think I will have to stay awake for 7 days!!

 

[Gallina Sarda]

I don't have a turner - it is the heat/fan making the noise - and It isn't regulating the heat correctly.  I have 3 thermometers in there - and each one reads differently, so that isn't helping!  I did run to town and by an LG in case....they said I could bring it back....so bummed.  I think I will have to stay awake for 7 days!!

 

Do you have an old fashioned mercury thermometer? They are supposedly very accurate. That's what I switched to after my first hatch. Best of luck getting it figured out. Keeping fingers crossed...

 

[delisha]

Ok, I am freaking out.... I went downstairs and my incubator was making a horrible noise (forced air fan) and the temp was 104. It wasn't there very long as I had turned the eggs a couple of hours before and everything was fine. I shut it off, cooled it down,and oiled the fan, tightened screws, etc. It seems to be fluctuting between 99and 102. I am so frustrated! I have not had one problem with it for 4 hatches! It is a odd brand - but has worked great. I don't know if I should go buy another incubator "in case". The only thing you can get around here is an LG - and they have terrible reviews. Maybe I should just buy one for backup - and see if they will take it back if I don't use it. ...


AAARRRGGGHHH! I just don't want to lose my Catdance babies!

You need to calibrate one thermometer and use one. Having so many will only make it more stressful.

 

[fishermans wife]

Do you have an old fashioned mercury thermometer? They are supposedly very accurate. That's what I switched to after my first hatch. Best of luck getting it figured out. Keeping fingers crossed...

Well, I am going to look for a mercury thermometer tonight - I think they are hard to find ? My husband looked at everything, retightened some stuff, and we turned it off for 1/2 hour but kept it all together so the eggs would not cool off too much. I figured it is not much different than when the hen leaves her eggs to eat and dust bathe! I then fired it back up and it is much quieter but still running hot. I turned it down as far as I could and it is staying steady at 100/102 depending on which thermometer you look at! I can live with that. I am either moving it next to my bed or getting up during the night to check on it.

If it was my own hen's eggs - no biggie - but these are CATDANCE eggs! What I need is one of my big fat hens to go broody!! hahaha!

 

[Gallina Sarda]

Well, I am going to look for a mercury thermometer tonight - I think they are hard to find ?   My husband looked at everything, retightened some stuff, and we turned it off for 1/2 hour but kept it all together so the eggs would not cool off too much.  I figured it is not much different than when the hen leaves her eggs to eat and dust bathe!   I then fired it back up and it is much quieter but still running hot.  I turned it down as far as I could and it is staying steady at 100/102 depending on which thermometer you look at!  I can live with that.  I am either moving it next to my bed or getting up during the night to check on it. If it was my own hen's eggs - no biggie - but these are CATDANCE eggs!    What I need is one of my big fat hens to go broody!!  hahaha!

You won't be able to buy one in a store but chances are that your grandma or mom has one. I had one until I broke it. I lucked out when a friend had an extra and shared with me. They have been banned in many states because of the mercury but a lot of people still have them lying in the medicine cabinet.