Simulated Natural Nest Incubation~Experiment #1 So it begins....

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Was looking at the stages of air cells from illustrations on the net and mine seem right on target, so I'm thinking my chicks are on the right course and the humidity has been held well. I'll put all air cells to the top surface of the eggs tomorrow and then will turn no more, will increase humidity in the soils and then just wait.

Should be interesting!
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I'll take video of the hatching if I can.
 
Thank you!

It's 35* out here and very windy...just checked the heating pad brooder setup temps in the hoop coop and could tell I needed to fortify the insulation under the brooder heater and over it, and also close off the back entrance to conserve heat to the area under the brooder pad. Later on the hay bales will be applied to the walls and that will block a lot of wind and hold in temps as well.

I added a layer of hay under the brooder pad to insulate the cold floor of the brooder(plywood over soil) even more than previously and then piled more on top of the brooder pad frame itself to form a nice little hay hobbit house and then placed the thermometer inside it once again and tilted it so that it will touch the underside of the brooder frame/pad. Will see later if that is holding temps better. Since this is all new to me and experimental in nature, this will require some tweaking.

The nice thing is that it will be used on meat chicks first and they are hardy little boogers that have hotter bodies than their layer or DP chick counterparts. They can tolerate the cold so much better, so we'll see how it goes with them...if THEY are too chilled by this setup, then regular chicks will need much more heat even than they.
 
TSC was out of meat chicks today, so no trying out the brooder pad heater right now but will try again on Tues. It's snowing a blizzard here right now, so it's probably best. Maybe I can get some about the time these chicks hatch so they can all snuggle together.
 

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