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

[WalnutHill]

There is a bird in that mop? Seriously, though, she is very pretty.

I only had one Polish chicken, a white crested black, and he was a vicious little devil.

 

[scflock]

I'm hoping 27 are still good. When I candled day 14 they were all good and on track barring one that had a slightly larger air sac but the egg looks more porous than the others. It's obviously lost more moisture with having a porous shell. Chick looked good though with lots of movement so fingers crossed on that.
Just the one clear at day 7 candle.

I sure hopes she gets to hatch some too, she's a lovely friendly little bird and I think she would make a great mother hen. If she can see here babies, this is her when she was a little younger ~

Wow! That is quite a crest on that girl

 

[scflock]

There is a bird in that mop? Seriously, though, she is very pretty.

I only had one Polish chicken, a white crested black, and he was a vicious little devil.

Have you noticed my WCB roo's name is Damien? There's a reason for that...

 

[cppeace]

Yeah I love the look of Polish but have heard the horror stories. I don't deal with aggressive poultry for long. That's why I have Pilgrim geese lol The least aggressive geese in the world and loved the Brahmas they were such sweet chickens

 

[WVduckchick]

Great. How many total did you set so I can let you know the parade requirements? Might as well make you too big for your britches, too

No parade for me! Really! I will never be too big for my britches, been size 2/4 for 30 years LOL
But seriously, 11 went to lockdown. Hatch still in progress.....

I'm actually just trying to find out what my lockdown humidity will be. I've been keeping it around 40 in the am with a gradual decrease over 24 hrs to about 27. I'm in a styro. Using my own gauges. Duck eggs. Staggered hatch. 10 days between the first and second batch, 7 days between second and third. Excellent development. 1 quitter. 1 dud. 3 doubles. No fluctuations. Candled every other day. I'm a meddler.

My ducks needed a little higher humidity than my chick hatches. I wish I had gone higher with this chick hatch. I think breed, egg size, shell porosity, amongst other things come into play too much to put a real number on it. But if I ever do ducks again, I won't let them drop below 35% to begin with, shoot for 40ish. Then go with air cell size for adjustments. Actually, I will start my next chicken batch there too, because 28% was too low for these guys. Won't drop below 30% for sure, unless the eggs are very dense shells.

3 doubles??

Double ducks are next to impossible, but I wish you the very best! Please let us know how that goes!!

Don't ever trust bator gages w/out checking and never trust manuals to correctly tell you how to incubate. That's my theory.

Beutiful coloring, but that "cyst" is really weird.


Yay on the hatchers!!! Boo on Blobby. He better make it out. I'll be so dissapointed.

I aim for 30% but I don't worry about it unless it drops below 25%.

I think incubator differences really matter. I had a girl trying to get the humidity up in her home made cooler bator to 75% like I run. (Her hygrometer had been checked.) She got it there, but when she posted the pic of the bator it looked like a rainforest in there...lol. It really showed the difference in bators. I run up to and past 80% with no condensation. I know, thanks to WV that the low humidity method does work outside of styro bators, and even the 40-45% is still low humidity (in comparison with the old standard of 50-60%).

Yuck on the staggered hatches...yay on the red team!!

Like I said above, I'm not dropping below 30% before day 7 again. Knowing that I can drop to 25% during summer, with house humidity at 68-70+, I won't worry about trying to take it down if necessary. Of course, I won't be using this same bator next time... so throw all that in the garbage and start over!!!

Still nothing on Blobby, and I'm gonna be quite disappointed too!! Still nothing on 3 other cochin eggs, nor the d'uccle. One polish is still working, and one polish has not pipped. So I still have quite a few to go!

I've moved the first 4 to the brooder. Will post pics soon.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

How quick as it come round, it doesn,t seem 5 mins since your last hatch. Best wishes for your broody and your incubator hatch. Your broody looks beautiful what is her colour its gorgeous

I know time has really flown. Time flies when your having fun though!! She's a gold lace, I have six of them but only her and one other are frizzle.

A broody polish?

Yes a broody polish, I know I was like Over and over and even thought I may just be imagining it. But I knew for sure once I moved her into her own coop. I picked her up straw and everything out of the nest (not the eggs) carried her over the lawn put het in and then eggs back under and she never made a muff. Just nestled back down and that was it away she went.

 

[WVduckchick]

I get condensation at 65-70%
As far as the

, if the britches fit, wear them

That was another thing I was going to comment on... while those last ones were hatching, the humidity went to 85% and the only condensation was on the window that a chick was laying under. As soon as it moved, the fog cleared. So I'm not sure what mine would be if I actually had real condensation.

 

[scflock]

Yeah I love the look of Polish but have heard the horror stories. I don't deal with aggressive poultry for long. That's why I have Pilgrim geese lol The least aggressive geese in the world and loved the Brahmas they were such sweet chickens

You have to take the good with the bad. Yes the roosters are mean, but at least the hens take off like a fox is after them if you drop something.
Wait a minute...

I know time has really flown. Time flies when your having fun though!! She's a gold lace, I have six of them but only her and one other are frizzle.
Yes a broody polish, I know I was like

Over and over and even thought I may just be imagining it. But I knew for sure once I moved her into her own coop. I picked her up straw and everything out of the nest (not the eggs) carried her over the lawn put het in and then eggs back under and she never made a muff. Just nestled back down and that was it away she went.

Is she delirious? Lame? Extremely tired? Has her body been invaded by a silkie? These are the questions you need to be asking yourself. I think a broody polish is equivalent to the 7th sign of the apocalypse

 

[scflock]

That was another thing I was going to comment on... while those last ones were hatching, the humidity went to 85% and the only condensation was on the window that a chick was laying under. As soon as it moved, the fog cleared. So I'm not sure what mine would be if I actually had real condensation.

I just think that using condensation as a gauge for humidity is not going to be accurate. Every incubator is different, and condensation has as much to do with the ambient temperature of the room as it does the interior climate of the incubator. I keep my thermostat at 67

 

[WVduckchick]

Ok, a few pics of the 4 that have been moved to the brooder. They are so super tiny. I love them already