Texas

[StelleKitten]

oops tired fingers doublr posting

 

[Cockle-Dood]

Man waking up in this 4 o clock hour is gonna take some getting used to!

Im sorry and our thoughts to all of those affected by the waco accident! Hope everything turns out fine!

 

[TexasLisa]

I came home today to find that my step-son had been busy. When I bought my house, I had a stone walk that went from the front porch, down the side of the house to the back porch. My step-son heard me complaining about how my newly sprouting grass see was being trammeled by the repeated crossing over by him and my husband and decided to do something about it. So, he created a solution:









I also have a tiny wash that goes down my front "garden"...he's working to rectify that as well; but, that's why the mini-bridge is there.

Kilsharion, I love the walkway!! Please tell your step-son he did a beautiful job.

Everyone is now okay from my family. Send some friends of the family took them in, her room mate is doing fine. The room mates grandmother lost her home. My niece has been evacuated, the local bellmead vet is taking in the small animals in the area. The La Vega vet clinic is what it is called.

The oktoberfest there is wonderful. They call it west fest. Great food, fun games and for those who like beer... lots of good beer.

StelleKitten, I am glad your family is doing okay. What a horrible nightmare! Does anyone know what caused this?

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GOOD MORNING COCKLE-DOOD!!

Lisa

 

[Cockle-Dood]

GOOD MORNING COCKLE-DOOD!!

Lisa

And good morning to you Lisa! All my chickens looked at me crazy when i opened their door for them this morning! Lol! Even the keets stayed on the roosts!

 

[TexasLisa]

And good morning to you Lisa! All my chickens looked at me crazy when i opened their door for them this morning! Lol! Even the keets stayed on the roosts!

Yes, mine did the same when I would go out to open their doors before their light came on. Now they follow me to the main gate thinking I am going to let them free-range in the dark! Have a great day!

Lisa

 

[NickyPick]

The Genesis 1588 uses water put in the bottom plastic tray for humidity. The bigger the puddle (surface area, not depth of puddle), the higher the humidity. The control panel measures the humidity but doesn't control the humidity - that can only be controlled by how much water you put into the plastic tray. Which is not very sophisticated or accurate, if you are trying to be precise with humidity control. I added an after market water pump to ours, cuz I can't stand that pouring water into the tray mess. So far it's doing well. Will know more in another couple of weeks if these eggs are fertile.

If you want to try dry incubating, just don't pour any water into the plastic tray in the bottom until the time you stop turning the eggs. Then go ahead and add water into the bottom tray for hatching.

Chickens hatch eggs all the time and they don't have temp/humidity sensors or controls and they don't monitor air cells. You don't have to monitor air cells with weighing the eggs/candling, but without doing so, there isn't a way to even guesstimate what is going on in there. But you don't even have to do that. Just depends on how much work you want to do for the hatching. I know some of these old breeders don't do nearly as much work as us newer people do. They say simpler is better.

Have you had a problem incubating before?

Yes, I just finished a hatch. 30 eggs and only 10 produced live chickens. 18 had chicks glued to their shells. It was pretty heartbreaking, especially since 8 of those eggs were from Sandy, who was killed by a fox. I really wanted some offspring of hers. I only hatch once a year and this was my second time to do it. I was hoping for at least 12 hens and had overstocked in preparation for half being boys. I'm thinking of trying a few eggs in a "dry" hatch, just to see if it would be any different. I'm not a person who likes to fuss with a ton of details.
With this incubator, filling the middle tray puts humidity at 47-52%. Filling all the trays puts it at 87+%. I'm guessing that that was just way too much humidity for my eggs. Hopefully, I'll get enough chicks so that when they get merged with the current chicks, they can group together to battle the bullying when the pecking order resets.

 

[yinepu]

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So why not do as I already suggested and leave the darn trays DRY?????

as I already told you a few times
go DRY.. meaning do not add any water to any of the trays during incubation
if you don't want to bother with "details" take your chances then don't monitor anything
at hatch add water to the trays

monitor the chicks as they hatch and report back with details on how they fared so we can troubleshoot

 

[NickyPick]

So why not do as I already suggested and leave the darn trays DRY?????

as I already told you a few times
go DRY.. meaning do not add any water to any of the trays during incubation
if you don't want to bother with "details" take your chances then don't monitor anything
at hatch add water to the trays

monitor the chicks as they hatch and report back with details on how they fared so we can troubleshoot

I didn't get ANY of your advice until after this bad hatch was over! That's why I'm asking for assistance now!!! I've only done this ONE hatch this year. THINKING of a second, but haven't taken the plunge yet.

 

[Kilsharion]

I didn't get ANY of your advice until after this bad hatch was over! That's why I'm asking for assistance now!!! I've only done this ONE hatch this year. THINKING of a second, but haven't taken the plunge yet.

Sweetie, she's given you advice this time around....just a couple of pages back.

And, weighing takes hardly any effort. Seriously - a spreadsheet or simple calculator and a piece of paper and 5 seconds lets you know if you are on track. Or, heck, post your weights and we'll plug it in and tell you.

A gram scale can be gotten off of Amazon for $10.

 

[yinepu]

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I've posted it several times..
sorry you didn't see it..

your options:

incubate DRY (no water at all in the trays)

option 1: monitor air cells (you said you cant..)
option 2: weigh the eggs for weight loss (you said you don't want to deal with details)

so that leaves
option 3:
Incubate dry.. do not monitor anything. and report back with any issues after the hatch.. this is the worst way to go since it leaves you with 0 control.. but if you don't want option 1 or 2 then it's what's left


at hatch add water to the incubator.. either 3 days before the eggs are due to hatch or when you see the first pip

report back with the condition of the chicks.. sticky.. dead in shell.. hatched fine and so on so we can troubleshoot it from there


but before you begin another hatch make sure the incubator has been sterilized use a 10% bleach solution or oxine.. even listerine will help (unflavored) to kill off any bacteria

leave all vents OPEN to avoid carbon dioxide poisoning