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[Cockle-Dood]

dry dry dry dry

I wouldn't add any water at all unless the air cells are calling for it

i've even been hatching dry this year since when I did bump up the humidity at hatch I had a couple that were a teeny bit too sticky for my liking.. so not adding water at all for incubating or hatching atm

Really? you are staying dry for lockdown? whats your rates been like this?

 

[NickyPick]

I tried a dry incubation after having huge issues with glued to shell chicks this spring (out of 30 eggs, only 10 hatched/survived). I so meant to check air cells using the charts I was given on this thread, but work and life kept interrupting and I only checked once. BUT, humidity in my Genesis 1588 stayed pretty much steady at 20 - 23% humidity. I added water to the middle section on day 18, which bumped it up to 40-45% and out of 10 eggs, 8 hatched with no problems whatsoever. The remaining 2 were duds that never formed. I'm definitely going to use this method again and next time, will start practicing/learning about watching the air cells and what not.

 

[3chickchicks]

HAHAHAHA.. don't bet on that!

I walked into the office the other day where the youngest were brooding.. found one sitting on top of the closet door looking down at me just as proud as he could be!

Lol!! What a riot!

Mine won't even use the 12" roost. Can I borrow a few of yours so they can learn how to be chickens from them? lmao!

 

[StelleKitten]

my bird was from ideal, she's my favorite.

 

[TexasLisa]

Really? you are staying dry for lockdown? whats your rates been like this?

Cockle-Dood she has GREAT hatches! Check out the site under her name or copy/paste her site:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/turkey-incubation-and-hatching-guide

Lisa

 

[yinepu]

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well.. first of all I don't do "lockdown".. i open the incubator several times a day at hatch.. but yup.. dry at hatch
As the chicks/ducklings hatched they naturally raised the humidity. of all the fertile undamaged eggs I set I had 100% hatch rates.
naturally scrambled eggs and damaged eggs from the USPS didn't do a darn thing.. but every egg that started to develop hatched with 0 issues

the thing to remember about dry HATCHING is that you have to know your incubator and how the eggs are reacting to the relative humidity in your home. naturally an incubator with a fan blowing directly onto the eggs will cause issues and also require added humidity at hatch just because of the fan drying the chicks/ducklings out too quickly through large pips

 

[yinepu]

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lol.. mine think they belong in the air force.. they get their pilots licenses early and believe in flying up as high as they can get.. frustrates the poor silkies though since they can't get their little behinds off the ground no matter what they do
So when they start looking down at me from up high I know it's well past time to get off my behind and move them outside!

 

[yinepu]

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*blushes*


i've just been doing this for a very long time... so I keep an eye on the weather and air cells and adjust as needed

 

[dan06]

There are some really nice used GQF
Sportsmen on Craigslist but wife said if I buy one more I'm going to have to buy stock in the power company

 

[TexasLisa]

Help!!! I have a Barred Rock that I think is egg bound. I have given her two warm baths w/Epsom Salts. The vent is pulsing. This morning I didn't do a vent check, but I thought I felt an egg. This evening I did check the vent (I used the olive oil to check her vent) and there was nothing. I put her in my bathroom all morning until 1 PM. She was so perky and wanted out, so I let her outside. Her tail wasn't drooping anymore. I saw her go to the bathroom and it is a foamy white. I have put electrolytes w/vitamins in her water and have been giving her yogurt. I have her back in the bathroom, but she really wants out. I read somewhere castor oil (by mouth) might help. Any advice on any of this would be greatly appreciated.

Their normal diet is a bit of scratch in the morning, FF, and a meal worm snack in the afternoon. They free range.

Lisa