She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[scflock]

There ya go.

Ok, lemme make an outline...
She's a naturalized Brit living in Mississippi, right? That opens a lot of windows

 

[WalnutHill]

Heading up to the woods to gather firewood. I'll catch up later. I can't wait to see this one...

 

[scflock]

Heading up to the woods to gather firewood. I'll catch up later. I can't wait to see this one...

The only thing I hate is I have to break it up into so many posts so I don't lose the pictures. Maybe at the end I can quote them all and tie them together

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Yes Amy, that's the 1. It's got 2 viewing windows and what I guess could be considered a knob in between those windows, there's no calibration marks or anything around it. Nothing digital. The guy I got it from also gave me a homemade hatching box that he says he switches the eggs to on day 18 prior to lockdown, not sure I'm going to use that on my 1st try.

When you are ready just pm me and I'll give you all the tips and hints I can to help you along with it.

I like after lockdown because your incubator and incubating skills are not related to infertile or busted up eggs.

Me too

You'll get a smack for talking about Amy's spread...

You are the only one that has a mind that went there. lol

But I think including that in the total numbers would make us focus more on why certain eggs don't develop. If the incentive of a parade is enough to make us tweak our incubation practices, then everyone benefits in the long run. Amy has been the only one to meet a high standard so far (as much as it pains me to say that

), so it actually is something that makes me want to have a better hatch. If I don't pull it off this time, I'm *gasp* buying a scale...

Sorry, can't flockin' spell today... ugh...

You can come sit with me. That's an everyday occurance here....lol

Wanna borrow my Siri?

What I'm saying on the percentage total is I think it should be based on all non-clear eggs. It will be much easier to go with lockdown, and will make more parades available, but if I have 20 fertile eggs, cook 18 of them before lockdown, I don't think I should get a parade if I hatch 2. Somewhere during my incubation, I did something wrong. Even if it is mechanical failure, we should have the incentive to find the failures and fix them.
I know that the prize is a fake online picture parade posted by someone I will never meet, but doggone it, I want one

Yup

50% is what I read as average for shipped, so I was going with 75% for the parade. 18x0.75= 13.5

Rounded up, it misses the bubble by one tenth. I really want to throw a parade, personalized for chicapee. Someone throw some red paint on me so I can forget that 0.1

Do it!!

No! YOU just think about it, Queenie. If you have that, you don't need the power, no power outtage for Ruby, and she doesn't have to buy a power inverter just because you were feeling frisky

If I had a reason to have that I wouldn't need a power supply!!!

Finally!! Caught up, just in time to have to go to town and get behind again!!!

 

[scflock]

If I had a reason to have that I wouldn't need a power supply!!!

It would dull the drill bit

 

[scflock]

 

[scflock]

 

[dan26552]

 

[lazy gardener]

@lazy gardener

Araucana eggs are hard to hatch no matter what... but the 'lethal gene' isn't related to the rumplessness at all, it's all about the tufts... if an embryo inherits 2 copies of tufted from the parents, then it will cause DIS... seems that when someone started looking into why it was figured out that 2 tufted genes causes the tufts to grow internally into the brain instead of out... so to give better odds and hatch rates you breed tufted to non tufted, either the roo is tufted and all hens are clean faced or all hens tufted and roo is clean faced... clean faced is not to SOP, but they are crucial to having a better hatch rates and breeding program... some people still breed tufted to tufted, but they get few chicks and lots of DIS... I can't do that... IMO it's just not something I could do knowing that most of those will never hatch...

I think the numbers are like this...

Tufted x Clean faced = 75% hatch rate, 50% clean faced, 50% tufted
Clean faced x clean faced = 100% clean faced
Tufted x tufted = 50% tufted, 50% DIS, 25% hatch rate

Inheriting 2 tufted genes is 100% lethal...

Thanks.

I'm curious to see if the lower humidity has any affect.

Welcome to the thread!

True, true, on the viable. I guess that's what I mean when I say "lockdown" anything un-viable at that point should be out of the equation.

But one could argue that a poor incubator, power outages, etc can push an egg over the viable edge. But I don't want to argue that. I would just go with good looking lockdown eggs.

One other factor that may be playing into SC's hatch this time compared to last: his pullet eggs are 3 weeks older, thus... bigger, with the pullet's reproductive systems being more mature.

What I'm saying on the percentage total is I think it should be based on all non-clear eggs. It will be much easier to go with lockdown, and will make more parades available, but if I have 20 fertile eggs, cook 18 of them before lockdown, I don't think I should get a parade if I hatch 2. Somewhere during my incubation, I did something wrong. Even if it is mechanical failure, we should have the incentive to find the failures and fix them.
I know that the prize is a fake online picture parade posted by someone I will never meet, but doggone it, I want one

 

[Ravynscroft]

Trying to figure out if that was cool or insulting... need more coffee...