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

[WVduckchick]

You didn't get them??? 

No, that person said they had them, then didn't get back to me, then when I inquired as to the status, they said they had been spoken for, but she could get me more in a week. So I guess someone jumped ahead of me. I dont like dealing that way, so I told them I would find some elsewhere.
Now I will be picking up cochin, d'uccle, and polish tomorrow. For sure! Although I turned off the bator when I went home today to check on my ducks/chicks. Oops lol

You don't sound like Snookie! And you're adorable, haha you're video was cute! And I'm not even about to make one because I probably do sound like Snookie.

That looks like my kind of weekend! Enjoy!
Teach me your ways! Sounds lIke it's going very well!

I can't say the same, I'm pretty sure my power failure killed these chicken eggs. Or at least messed up their development. It's now day 22 and nothing, thinking of doing the float test. I don't know I'll give them a little more time, could be delayed due to the power loss but I have a bad feeling. And I think the mistake was not knowing about dry hatching in these bators.

I just got home, we've been finishing our basement so we've been busy. I got the hubby to go buy me some eggs though, tonight. His old teacher breeds purebred Ameraucanas (he's in some Ameraucanas breeders club and takes it very seriously, LOL but I wanted the real deal) so I have six of those, and he had some Blue-Laced Red Wyandottes so I got six of those and he threw in four extra. I saw the hens and the roos of both and they are pretty chickens

Amy, I'm going to do the dry incubation method, I bookmarked your page. I can't go completely dry, because we're in a drought (for the northeast anyways) and the humidity in the air had only been 20%. I have found a tablespoon of water is plenty in this bator. Hopefully this goes well and with NO loss of power- I did move the bator, it was the other outlet that shorted out. Just my luck, but so far it has been running perfect since.

I hope something still happens with your current hatch. Maybe they are just taking their time.
And keep in mind, humidity is by surface area, not amount of water. I would think a teaspoon would evaporate quickly. You can add more, deeper, as long as you keep the same surface area and should be the same percentage you get with a teaspoon.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

You don't sound like Snookie! And you're adorable, haha you're video was cute! And I'm not even about to make one because I probably do sound like Snookie.

That looks like my kind of weekend! Enjoy!
Teach me your ways! Sounds lIke it's going very well!

I can't say the same, I'm pretty sure my power failure killed these chicken eggs. Or at least messed up their development. It's now day 22 and nothing, thinking of doing the float test. I don't know I'll give them a little more time, could be delayed due to the power loss but I have a bad feeling. And I think the mistake was not knowing about dry hatching in these bators.

I just got home, we've been finishing our basement so we've been busy. I got the hubby to go buy me some eggs though, tonight. His old teacher breeds purebred Ameraucanas (he's in some Ameraucanas breeders club and takes it very seriously, LOL but I wanted the real deal) so I have six of those, and he had some Blue-Laced Red Wyandottes so I got six of those and he threw in four extra. I saw the hens and the roos of both and they are pretty chickens

Amy, I'm going to do the dry incubation method, I bookmarked your page. I can't go completely dry, because we're in a drought (for the northeast anyways) and the humidity in the air had only been 20%. I have found a tablespoon of water is plenty in this bator. Hopefully this goes well and with NO loss of power- I did move the bator, it was the other outlet that shorted out. Just my luck, but so far it has been running perfect since.

When mine is too dry I wet a sponge and stick in there and it will usually hold it right about 30%. Thank you for the compliment. No one else will make a video??? Geeze, no adventurous souls...tisk tisk tisk. lol

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I hate people that deal like that. I wouldn't deal with them either.

 

[MunsterChicks]

I hope something still happens with your current hatch. Maybe they are just taking their time.
And keep in mind, humidity is by surface area, not amount of water. I would think a teaspoon would evaporate quickly. You can add more, deeper, as long as you keep the same surface area and should be the same percentage you get with a teaspoon.

Thank you for the tip. I was using like a big tablespoon I guess you'd call it. Because it's a little bigger and I was just putting a little water in each resevoir. Then I was watching the hydrometer and adding more. I was starting off small because I'm afraid if I add more to each resevoir I'll end up spiking the humidity. I suspect that was the issue with this hatch too, the directions we were using said a cup of water every three days and it was so humid! Like way way too high, I'm so afraid to make the same mistake. To get to the 75% I put several tablespoons in over a few hours and slowly brought it up, is that a bad idea though? Should I have done it more quickly? I was just afraid to over do it.

When mine is too dry I wet a sponge and stick in there and it will usually hold it right about 30%.  Thank you for the compliment. No one else will make a video??? Geeze, no adventurous souls...tisk tisk tisk.  lol

LOL I'm too pregnant for that. My face is huge, I've already out on 40lbs.

I will try the sponge, how big do you cut the sponge. I'm so afraid of screwing up the new hatch. It's so disappointing that none of mine have hatched, all that time wasted, and no babies

 

[rossfam06]

Thank you for the tip. I was using like a big tablespoon I guess you'd call it. Because it's a little bigger and I was just putting a little water in each resevoir. Then I was watching the hydrometer and adding more. I was starting off small because I'm afraid if I add more to each resevoir I'll end up spiking the humidity. I suspect that was the issue with this hatch too, the directions we were using said a cup of water every three days and it was so humid! Like way way too high, I'm so afraid to make the same mistake. To get to the 75% I put several tablespoons in over a few hours and slowly brought it up, is that a bad idea though? Should I have done it more quickly? I was just afraid to over do it.
LOL I'm too pregnant for that. My face is huge, I've already out on 40lbs.

I will try the sponge, how big do you cut the sponge. I'm so afraid of screwing up the new hatch. It's so disappointing that none of mine have hatched, all that time wasted, and no babies

I followed AmyLynn's advice with my first hatch and with the LG9300 I hatched out over half of mh eggs the first time. But the second time it was my fault because I moved the bator to a room where temp was not controlled and it had a temp spike on dag 18 and killed them. So I moved it back into my bedroom with 14 eggs in it all of which are growing well. I will candle all eggs on Wednesday and weigh them for their day 14 then do my last candle next Sunday for day 18 Before lockdown. I am also a "hands in the bator" kind of girl. But do what you feel is right.

 

[MunsterChicks]

I followed AmyLynn's advice with my first hatch and with the LG9300 I hatched out over half of mh eggs the first time. But the second time it was my fault because I moved the bator to a room where temp was not controlled and it had a temp spike on dag 18 and killed them. So I moved it back into my bedroom with 14 eggs in it all of which are growing well. I will candle all eggs on Wednesday and weigh them for their day 14 then do my last candle next Sunday for day 18 Before lockdown. I am also a "hands in the bator" kind of girl. But do what you feel is right.

Thanks for your advice!

I candled a few eggs and had a blood ring, and detached air cells in most of them. I started googling and felt none were developed aside from the blood ring and now detached air cells. We had six eggs, my husband and I just cracked open every one and they were all dead. They definitely died the night our electrical outlet fried- and lost power to the incubator. None of them were developed past 10 weeks, but each had embryos all about the same size. They had beaks but were dark brown with no veins to be seen. I am assuming the no veins means they've been dead a while too? Aside from the fact that the embryos were small and look exactly like a 10 day old embryo.

I went and played with my baby orpingtons, and cleaned their brooder, which helped ease the frustration. I just feel bad for the eggs but I know I couldnt of stopped the electrical outlet from going. I cleaned the incubator really well with hot soapy dawn dish soap- so I'll be setting in the morning using Amy's method.

 

[BYC910]

So, I hit day 7 this afternoon so of course I candled and marked air cells. Here's the stats: I set 21 eggs last Sunday. A couple days ago I candled the suspicious looking egg to find that it was indeed a blood ring and tossed it leaving 20 eggs. Today's candle revealed 20 developing eggs. That's 100% fertility (not a surprise). At this point all I can see in the four green ones are veining. The others have great veining and I could see some dancers moveing around in a good share of them.

Up until today the temps been consistant between 99-100 with little flunctuation. Today (since it decided to warm up after a couple days cold snap) I had my first jump where two thermometers read 102 and one read 103. Ouch. I got that regulated back down. Now it's wait and see again.

Air cells look good, I even added a bit of water to one of the sponges to keep them from making too big of a jump over the next week. I have one egg that is bigger and the air cell is a bit smaller, but that's to be expected.

Overall I am happy with how it looks. Having problems getting good pics now, but will try later.

that's cause the batteries are dead again you need to put a plug on that flashlight. If you had my light you'd be able to she them little critters doing the back stroke Well I guess my guess my hatch is done hatched 7 had me one of them up side down chickens piped half way up or down which ever way you look at it got me 6 EE's and 1 BCM get out pic's in the morning .

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Thank you for the tip. I was using like a big tablespoon I guess you'd call it. Because it's a little bigger and I was just putting a little water in each resevoir. Then I was watching the hydrometer and adding more. I was starting off small because I'm afraid if I add more to each resevoir I'll end up spiking the humidity. I suspect that was the issue with this hatch too, the directions we were using said a cup of water every three days and it was so humid! Like way way too high, I'm so afraid to make the same mistake. To get to the 75% I put several tablespoons in over a few hours and slowly brought it up, is that a bad idea though? Should I have done it more quickly? I was just afraid to over do it.
LOL I'm too pregnant for that. My face is huge, I've already out on 40lbs.

I will try the sponge, how big do you cut the sponge. I'm so afraid of screwing up the new hatch. It's so disappointing that none of mine have hatched, all that time wasted, and no babies

I use a normal sized cleaning sponge about 5X4 inches. Cheap dollar store cleaning sponge...lol The great thing is with the sponges if you get too much humidity you can just pull the sponge out and it's so much easier to just wet the sponge than get to the water wells (at least in the styro bators.) For lockdown you can higher it all at once, I do. I fill my wells wet my sponges (I use 2-3 at lockdown to get my 75%. You don't have to be too afraid at lockdown on "over doing it". If you get condensation, it's too much and you just let some out or pull out a sponge, other than that, the higher humidity at lockdown won't kill or drown them. I start out at 75% and it hikes up to 80%+ once they start hatching.

When are you due for the twins??

I followed AmyLynn's advice with my first hatch and with the LG9300 I hatched out over half of mh eggs the first time. But the second time it was my fault because I moved the bator to a room where temp was not controlled and it had a temp spike on dag 18 and killed them. So I moved it back into my bedroom with 14 eggs in it all of which are growing well. I will candle all eggs on Wednesday and weigh them for their day 14 then do my last candle next Sunday for day 18 Before lockdown. I am also a "hands in the bator" kind of girl. But do what you feel is right.

For us RED team!!! lol

Thanks for your advice!

I candled a few eggs and had a blood ring, and detached air cells in most of them. I started googling and felt none were developed aside from the blood ring and now detached air cells. We had six eggs, my husband and I just cracked open every one and they were all dead. They definitely died the night our electrical outlet fried- and lost power to the incubator. None of them were developed past 10 weeks, but each had embryos all about the same size. They had beaks but were dark brown with no veins to be seen. I am assuming the no veins means they've been dead a while too? Aside from the fact that the embryos were small and look exactly like a 10 day old embryo.

I went and played with my baby orpingtons, and cleaned their brooder, which helped ease the frustration. I just feel bad for the eggs but I know I couldnt of stopped the electrical outlet from going. I cleaned the incubator really well with hot soapy dawn dish soap- so I'll be setting in the morning using Amy's method.

Good luck. I hope you see no power problems and lots of fuzzies this next time.

that's cause the batteries are dead again you need to put a plug on that flashlight. If you had my light you'd be able to she them little critters doing the back stroke Well I guess my guess my hatch is done hatched 7 had me one of them up side down chickens piped half way up or down which ever way you look at it got me 6 EE's and 1 BCM get out pic's in the morning .

LOL I do need to go get some decent batteries. I got real cheap batteries this time so I didn't have to go to the other store and they are already dimming. I can see them dancing in person, actually got some cool vid, but it's just not letting me get good pics. Of course I don't have a great camera, just a plain old digital. I want to process the video sometime today if I get time and throw it on.


Hope everyone has a great day and stays safe during the holiday travel and merriment.

 

[RubyNala97]

Finally finished reading this thread! Literally, took a week. I'm so happy that both Amy & SC are there to help us newbies. You both may have different techniques but that's what's great for someone that is still learning and trying to get the best hatch possible. I've taken a lot of info from Amy about humidity & assisted hatches. I also love my Brinsea (had to return the styrofoam incubator after 24hrs) and felt most comfortable taking SC's advice on leaving the chicks in the incubator overnight. So I thank you both, you've helped me find my own way that I'm happy with! I'm on day 5 of my second batch. Not far behind you Amy! Love the candling pics. You guys kinda lost me with all the accent & dialect talk. I'm from NY...hope I don't sound like Snookie!! Love the video Amy!!!

 

[MunsterChicks]

I use a normal sized cleaning sponge about 5X4 inches. Cheap dollar store cleaning sponge...lol  The great thing is with the sponges if you get too much humidity you can just pull the sponge out and it's so much easier to just wet the sponge than get to the water wells (at least in the styro bators.)  For lockdown you can higher it all at once, I do. I fill my wells wet my sponges (I use 2-3 at lockdown to get my 75%.  You don't have to be too afraid at lockdown on "over doing it". If you get condensation, it's too much and you just let some out or pull out a sponge, other than that, the higher humidity at lockdown won't kill or drown them. I start out at 75% and it hikes up to 80%+ once they start hatching.

When are you due for the twins??

For us RED team!!!  lol

Good luck. I hope you see no power problems and lots of fuzzies this next time.

LOL I do need to go get some decent batteries. I got real cheap batteries this time so I didn't have to go to the other store and they are already dimming. I can see them dancing in person, actually got some cool vid, but it's just not letting me get good pics. Of course I don't have a great camera, just a plain old digital.  I want to process the video sometime today if I get time and throw it on.


Hope everyone has a great day and stays safe during the holiday travel and merriment.

Thank you for the tips! Good point with the sponges, it would be much easier I reduce humidity by removing them. I am due middle of August, but they won't let me go later than the first week of August if I make it that far (twins usually come a month to two weeks early)

I'm going to set my eggs in a little while. Ive been running the bator for a few hours, I'm running dry and I have two thermometer and hygrometers, humidity is right below 20% running dry, so maybe I'll throw in a small container with a little sponge to get it up a bit. I didn't think I'd be able to run completely dry because it has been record setting dry here the past few weeks. Maybe by miracle we'll get some rain!