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timbowsr said:
You like salsa? Take boneless/skinless chicken breast and brown slightly in a little olive oil -- or butter -- or a mixture of the two. Add some chicken broth and any type of salsa ( homemade or grocery store jars ) and let simmer for about 30 mins, adding water if it gets too thick. Make some "out of the box" Spanish rice and serve with biscuits ( gotta have biscuits, so you can sop up that gravy ... hmmm ).

Plans for today ... finish the siding on my rabbit barn so I can start putting hardware cloth and framing on my chicken breeding pens. Have 14 Delaware chicks about a month old. Next year I'll be starting my breeding program. Woohoo!

Nephew's eggs going into lockdown tomorrow ... 50 of em. I usually run my DIY incubator with a glass baking dish with about a 1/2 inch of water, refilling as needed, and that keeps my humidity at around 40%. When I go into lockdown I've been filling the baking dish up and moving it closer to the heat source. I also add three pint mason jars with a sponge sticking up about an inch and a half out of the jar. This brings my humidity up to around 60-65%. Chicks hatch in a hatching basket and sit there until they are completely dry. I open the incubator when necessary to remove them ( three chick minimum ), and at that time I remove any shells that are in the basket. That whole moving process takes less than a minute. Temp usually drops a few degrees but comes back up within a minute or two, but the humidity will take a hit, so I try to keep that door shut at all costs!! During incubation I candle when ever I get a hankering ... no set schedule. Not sure if that makes me red or blue ... or something in between. Next year when I start incubating seriously I'll probably start candling at 5, 7, 14 and at lockdown. Just because I like to see.
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I think that makes you purple...lol

chicapee said:
How high is too high for hatching humidity?
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BYC910 said:
hard. to say it seems all the experts are off line . most books say 65% some hatcher's say 70% some say 80% is a good number If your incubator has condensation on the viewing windows its to high. In mine I'm running about 75% right now.
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xs 2 if there's condensation it's too much. I use 75% myself and during hatch it'll jump up to 80% but it doesn't stay there long...lol
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Different types of bators hit the point of condensation at different percentages.
 
AmyLynn2374 said:
I think that makes you purple...lol



xs 2 if there's condensation it's too much. I use 75% myself and during hatch it'll jump up to 80% but it doesn't stay there long...lol ;)
Different types of bators hit the point of condensation at different percentages.
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Me too. I think mine even jumped to 85 or more, but still no condensation, so I didn't worry. I would worry more about excess humidity early on in lockdown, like day 18-19, more than I would on day 21
 

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