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[RubyNala97]

I just wanted to update real quick. The charcoal/carbon moisture control stuff I picked up at the dollar store took my inside incubator humidity from 55% to 25%! I am so pleased. I only used a small cup of the stuff. Probably over a dozen cups in the actual container. Loving that it only cost $1 and worked amazing!

 

[lazy gardener]

Now, we'll all be haunting the dollar stores to buy the stuff! What was the store name?

 

[WVduckchick]

So egg 8 wasn't making any good progress really. It was looking dryer and dryer so I helped it out. It looks ok just acting real weak. Egg 6 still just has it's little pip with a little beak showing.
So I put 11 original duck eggs in. 1 was infertile, 1 got ring of death first week. 1 died around 14 days in, prolly from a heat spike. 1 tried hatching upside down and died. 1 got dried out out and needed help hatching but looks overall ok. 1 still needs to hatch but is pipped good. 5 hatched without issue or any real help.
Overall think this went well for my first solo attempt in a homemade cheap incubator. Looking to hatch 7 outta 8 from lockdown point.

That's great! Congrats, and good luck with #6

I just wanted to update real quick. The charcoal/carbon moisture control stuff I picked up at the dollar store took my inside incubator humidity from 55% to 25%! I am so pleased. I only used a small cup of the stuff. Probably over a dozen cups in the actually container. Loving that it only cost $1 and worked amazing!

Wow, so glad to see that something actually works!! Might have to buy stock in that company. Their sales might explode! LOL

 

[scflock]

I just wanted to update real quick. The charcoal/carbon moisture control stuff I picked up at the dollar store took my inside incubator humidity from 55% to 25%! I am so pleased. I only used a small cup of the stuff. Probably over a dozen cups in the actually container. Loving that it only cost $1 and worked amazing!

I was going to reply to your other post when I saw you were already using it. I'm curious to see the results, but would be afraid to try it myself. That's the kind of stuff we use in our RV when it's stored. You put some in a container and set it on a flat surface. It does a great job pulling the moisture out of the air, but after a month the container will be half full of water. I'm not sure what that stuff does when it breaks down, and it does have a smell. It's a clean smell, but still a smell. I hope it works for you

 

[WVduckchick]

Now, we'll all be haunting the dollar stores to buy the stuff! What was the store name?

Looks like Dollar Tree sells it. Also found it on Amazon...

 

[scflock]

You must be Ringo.

Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say.

Yes, but there's just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of... me. No. I'm sure of it, I hate him

 

[scflock]

Looks like Dollar Tree sells it.  Also found it on Amazon...

I'm going to let Ruby be the guinea pig on this one...

 

[scflock]

I have some good news that I must share. My wonderful DH told me this evening that he fixed the small refrigerator in his garage by using parts from another one he found.... The good news isn't that he fixed his, it's that now I have a non-working one that I (he) can turn into an incubator!!! Yeah!!

Uh oh, frigdeabator X chicken math= trouble

 

[NTBugtraq]

https://books.google.com/books?id=e...apons and Caponizing by Rob R. Slocum&f=false

Next time you have a cockerel that needs culling, give it a try. Or next time you have one turn up dead, practice. "Indian Game" in this text refers to what is now known as Cornish.

Thanks for the link WalnutHill, that was a really informative article on caponizing. Now I just have to find the tools...I checked eBay.ca and Kijiji (our CL) and found nothing...;-[

 

[NTBugtraq]

So egg 8 wasn't making any good progress really. It was looking dryer and dryer so I helped it out. It looks ok just acting real weak. Egg 6 still just has it's little pip with a little beak showing.
So I put 11 original duck eggs in. 1 was infertile, 1 got ring of death first week. 1 died around 14 days in, prolly from a heat spike. 1 tried hatching upside down and died. 1 got dried out out and needed help hatching but looks overall ok. 1 still needs to hatch but is pipped good. 5 hatched without issue or any real help.
Overall think this went well for my first solo attempt in a homemade cheap incubator. Looking to hatch 7 outta 8 from lockdown point.

congrats on your first attempt!