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AmyLynn2374 said:
So, I've had the bator running for about 24 hours now. I was hoping I would be able to run dry now that we aren't using the pellet stove and winter has past, but my hygrometer is only reading 16%. Guess it's time to get the salt out and recheck it. Speaking of salt....@WVduckchick , I added a small container of table salt and not a bit of a change. Tomorrow I plan on trying sea salt. Bator is holding temp pretty well right at 100. Getting excited to set...
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Haven't turned mine on yet. Been messing with new chicks and such. Gave myself a lazy evening yesterday since hubby worked a little late! But I think I'll get it turned on tonight.

WalnutHill said:
I've hatched 17 day old eggs, but not 24, and never those held at room temp in my office. Every egg from my flock is marked with date laid, and eggs brought in (Bantams and ISA Browns) are simply numbered with the weight challenge eggs clearly marked and scattered around the tray.

My first checkpoint is day 7, but the green shelled eggs generally don't show well enough then so day 14 will probably show the success of the old eggs. I've been gathering one or two a day since April 19 when the last batch went into the incubator.

The 152 g turkey egg will be my biggest challenge (literally). It won't fit in a turner rail. I need to find or fabricate one that will allow me to lay eggs in horizontally. Even if I could get it into the turner, it would hit the tray above. It's 3 1/2" long with a circumference of 7"!
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That is a BIG egg! My biggest duck egg was 81.1g and my biggest turkey egg was only 74.5g. I can hardly imagine a 154g egg! Your results are going to be very interesting!
 
Speaking of bacon... I just had the most fabulous club sandwich for lunch! At a local dive bar that I have never been to before. One of the ladies at work took me. The bacon on the sandwich was perfect!!
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scflock said:
The dives usually have the best food. The way to find the best around here is to drive the backroads around lunchtime and look for a bunch of contractor's trucks in the parking lot
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I agree, and that's a great idea!! I've only been in this town for two years, so we are still finding those places. I was told their beer is the coldest too, but that will have to wait for a non-lunchtime visit
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WVduckchick said:
I agree, and that's a great idea!! I've only been in this town for two years, so we are still finding those places. I was told their beer is the coldest too, but that will have to wait for a non-lunchtime visit
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I work way out in the boondocks, and just happened to drive by an old block building that I had passed before, but it was lunchtime, and the lot was full of pickup trucks, so I stopped to see what all the fuss was about. I walked in the front, and there was a long buffet set up with 4 middle aged black women running the operation. You yankees will have to excuse me here, but this was redneck heaven! BBQ chicken, fried chicken, and pork chops were the meats, and the veggies were unreal. Okra, squash, fresh tomatoes, etc..., macaroni pie, collard greens, and for dessert, home made peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream. I may have a stroke before I'm 50, but dadgummit, I enjoy my food!
 
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scflock said:
I work way out in the boondocks, and just happened to drive by an old block building that I had passed before, but it was lunchtime, and the lot was full of pickup trucks, so I stopped to see what all the fuss was about. I walked in the front, and there was a long buffet set up with 4 middle aged black women running the operation. You yankees will have to excuse me here, but this was redneck heaven! BBQ chicken, fried chicken, and pork chops were the meats, and the veggies were unreal. Okra, squash, fresh tomatoes, etc..., and for dessert, home made peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream. I may have a stroke before I'm 50, but dadgummit, I enjoy my food!
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Definitely sounds heavenly. I make a mean peach cobbler! Now I want some dessert!

By the way, I didn't know what a booted bantam was, so I was just googling them. What kind did you hatch? How soon do the feathers grow on their legs? I want to hatch some bantams, but still debating exactly what. I'm enjoying the 2 little silkies that I bought. I have a text out to a guy who has several bantam breed hatching eggs, waiting to hear what he has.

eta - if I have a stroke before I'm 50, it will have to be in the next 2 months! I'm almost there...
 
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AmyLynn2374 said:
  Well, by now most anyone who has been on BYC for any amount of time has it figured out that people do things differently. People have different philosophies. And though we may disagree with someone else's methods, that does not mean their method is WRONG. If a method is working and a person is happy with their results, then that's what they should be doing. As long as it's good for the hatcher and the chicks that's what counts. 

   Some of us acknowledge that there are different ways to do things and we encourage others by showing BOTH sides to what we do and don't do so that the new hatcher can find their comfort zone and not be scared to experience things for THEMSELVES.

   So, for a little fun and to show differences in hatch techniques, philosophies and even equiptment, @scflock
 and I have decided to start a thread and are in preparation in the next two - three weeks (hopefully) to have a hatching match. We are almost as different as night and day in our hatching, yet we have similar results. So we thought we'd have a little fun with it and go head to head in the thread. We'd also like to hear other's inputs on what they find works/doesn't work for them. This thread is meant to be an entertaining mesh of philosophies and practices not a place to argue and get personal, so if you can keep it light and fun, please join us for our "differences match".  Now it's time to meet the oppponents:

In the "blue corner" we have sc "set em and forget em" flock.  Armed with his Brinsea, SC  has a conservative hatching view. No touchy after lockdown and keep that bator closed. No, he will not aid in the hatch of a chick (unless under rare circumstances) and those babies aren't getting out of there for a couple days after hatch! Sorry guys, make yourself comfortable, you're there for a while.

In the "red corner" we have Amy, "The Humidity Queen". Struggling with her ancient little giant 9200 (fan forced at least) she has a more liberal outlook on hatching. (Maybe it's because she is usually sleep deprivated during hatch from the constant monitoring of that LG incubator she is using.) Whatever the reason, lockdown is as normal a time to do "last" candle and marking eggs, take out the turner- if she is using it, lay those babies down and step back. But hands off?? Oh no, The Humidity Queen could also be called "The masked meddler". This hatcher is not hands off. Humidity is up and she is ready to remove chicks as they hatch and get them in the brooder. Grab out those shells and flip that pipper over!  If there's trouble in the air, don't worry, she's there to aid the little guy that's stuck.  

   This should be an eventful match (once we get it off the ground.) The red contestant just needs a couple weeks to get oragnized and for her newly housed pullets to get organized and back on the laying consistantly plus a couple more weeks of size consistancy wouldn't hurt either, so meanwhile, join the discussion and tell us what you've found that works for you.
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I am with you Amy 100%. I found with the humidity set at 70-75% I can get the babies out and the shells and no problems. It's a lot less messy to clean after to. I can also check at later dates to see if any internal pip has happen because my eggs don't really move our make noise too much during hatch time. I've also been able to help with 2 chicks that couldn't zip their eggs after trying for over 30hrs. Both were pipped on the wrong end.
 

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