Stella's Social Club

[lawatt]

I wanted to go as I was going to see if anyone was selling incubators as I have mine full and some more eggs to set lol I feel good today

just curious, since you and i have the same Rcom -- how frequently do you set the turner? i.e. 1 hr, 2 hr, or 3hr?

Mary, those mini-geese are gorgeous! i can see why you were tempted...

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Haven't touched the turner I lowered the humidity to 35% though. I may just buy another. The 20 I set 9 days ago are all developing it appears

 

[Hangtown Farms]

One dealer had a Sportsman cabinet Incubator and a hatcher. The incubator was sold but the hatcher wasn't. It was $749.00

I just tossed four of the six Isbars I had in lockdown. They quit in the last 24 hours. Impossible to keep the humidity up in that Brinsea. I have two eggs left but very little movement in them. I am sure I'll be tossing them tomorrow.

I can't lol was thinking a cheap one for the non shipped olive eggers lol

 

[The Sheriff]

Don't blame me if you go deaf.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I just tossed four of the six Isbars I had in lockdown. They quit in the last 24 hours. Impossible to keep the humidity up in that Brinsea. I have two eggs left but very little movement in them. I am sure I'll be tossing them tomorrow.

Bummer.

 

[lawatt]

Haven't touched the turner I lowered the humidity to 35% though. I may just buy another. The 20 I set 9 days ago are all developing it appears

so you don't use the turner at all? or just kept it on whatever setting it came with?

and why did you reduce the humidity? (my eggs have a week left, should i reduce humidity? it's been at 45%...)

and Mary, so sorry to read of the quitters!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

No I use it the fist 18 days every 2 hours I think it's at I lowered the humidity to help my dark eggs 45 works fine on the lighter

 

[lawatt]

No I use it the fist 18 days every 2 hours I think it's at I lowered the humidity to help my dark eggs 45 works fine on the lighter

aha, i didn't realize there was a difference for darker vs. lighter eggs. right now i've got 16 lighter eggs (isbars) and 4 darker (marans), so will see how they do!

i changed the turner to every three hours just because it's so loud, it's hard to sleep through! but maybe that isn't frequent enough? not sure!

 

[speckledhen]

I've seen no difference for humidity in darker or lighter eggs, so unless you're saying the super dark shells are just thicker, I'm not sure why they'd be any different. I've done Marans and Olive Eggers the same way I do my Rocks. I do see that small eggs lose humidity faster and you have to keep up with it. I do between 30 and 45% the first 18 days, then up it to 65-70% and no higher. When they start pipping, they add more moisture in the bator by themselves.

 

[ronott1]

I've seen no difference for humidity in darker or lighter eggs, so unless you're saying the super dark shells are just thicker, I'm not sure why they'd be any different. I've done Marans and Olive Eggers the same way I do my Rocks. I do see that small eggs lose humidity faster and you have to keep up with it. I do between 30 and 45% the first 18 days, then up it to 65-70% and no higher. When they start pipping, they add more moisture in the bator by themselves.

The dark thick eggs do much better at lower humidity. The light colored ones do fine at both 35% and the normal 45 to 55% for the first 18 days.

I hatch all of them at 35% for the first 18 days and then 65 to 75% during hatching.