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

[meganhundley]

Lol, normal prople, lmao!! I'm far from normal myself but I think with this hatch, being that it's my 1st hatch and they're also shipped, I'll wait to candle them when the normal people do, lol.

 

[kwhites634]

x2! Daaaaannnnnnngggggg.....

Those Marans eggs are so pretty. I think one day we will have Marans and olive eggers, or maybe some crested cream legbar or both to get a display like you got going there.

Home Depot has the Accurite combo. We have this one on the way:

http://www.amazon.com/Caliber-Digit...+Digital/Analog+Hygrometer+by+Western+Humidor

I've heard good things. Incutherm from incubator warehouse gets good reviews.

I just tried to follow that Amazon link, twice, for the hygrometer. They say it doesn't exist. Could be my screwed-up computer.
If you locate those pure RIR's I'd appreciate a heads-up...partial to them myself.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I just tried to follow that Amazon link, twice, for the hygrometer. They say it doesn't exist. Could be my screwed-up computer.
If you locate those pure RIR's I'd appreciate a heads-up...partial to them myself.

I clicked on it and it went right to the hygrometer.

BTW

 

[chicapee]

I clicked on it and it went right to the hygrometer.     BTW  

X's 2

 

[meganhundley]

I got an Accurite combo today from Walmart as a temp til my new Incutherm gets here and I'm not very happy with it at all. It was a cheaper 1 but it's off by about 8+/- degrees. I think the hygrometer part works good but I can't fit it in any of my ziplock baggies to salt test it. The more expensive 1's may be good though.

 

[lazy gardener]

I got an Accurite combo today from Walmart as a temp til my new Incutherm gets here and I'm not very happy with it at all. It was a cheaper 1 but it's off by about 8+/- degrees. I think the hygrometer part works good but I can't fit it in any of my ziplock baggies to salt test it. The more expensive 1's may be good though.

take it back.

 

[RubyNala97]

I am too curious. Of course I do mixes, so half of the curiosity comes from wanting to know what they would have been if they had hatched, the other half of me just wants to know for sure that they are gone and I'm not tossing a live chick.

I have to at least open the air cell and membrane for peek! Lol but it was getting disheartening pulling out perfect chicks that just couldn't hatch! I've been practicing locating the beak under the membrane and getting the head out but that's as far as I went with this last batch.

 

[meganhundley]

?

 

[lazy gardener]

PM

 

[Wisher1000]

My dear BYC friend, Ronott, has a theory as to why some chicks make it to lock down, but don't hatch, especially shipped eggs. His theory, and I think it is based off of studies as he is the academic type, is that the egg is a closed system. It contains just enough internal energy to develop, hatch, and live until it can start feeding itself. When there is internal damage due to shipping, or too much rough handling during incubation, the egg/embryo expends some of that energy repairing itself. If it has to use too much energy for the healing process, it won't have enough for the hard work needed to hatch. This theory makes sense to me. It would explain the ones that are fully developed but never pip internally, as well as those that hatch, finally, but die before they start eating. It would also explain why sometimes you can give a weak chick sugar water or egg yolk and keep it warm and it will pull through. I realize that there are other reasons these things happen, but there have been many times that the entire hatch seemed to have been perfect, just to have chicks DIS.