The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Razadia]

I picked up my eggs from bamadude today! I already set them, but I won't know how many eggs I'll have until I set quail next week.

 

[Lemsr2]

Mine are from my own hens. I just hatched a bunch yesterday, so the 'bator is ready for the next bunch.

 

[Junibutt]

Post office lost my Ice-Cream bar x Legbar hybrid eggs somewhere in Houston so I don't think I am getting those. Kind of a natural selection because I had 20 eggs too many for the 72 capacity I have.

Some of my Blue Isbar eggs also broke in transit and their yolk is all over the unbroken eggs. Since they were wrapped in cotton, that has stuck to the eggs where the yolk has dried. I am almost certain that will harbor bacteria if I leave that cotton on.

How do I remove it? Can I use Manna Pro's Wipe N Wash egg cleaner? or shall I just clip it as close to the egg as possible with a nail clipper?

 

[JekkaLynn]

@ Happy Chooks

^ Making Mike do his math, huh?   I count 54?

I told in an earlier post how many I put on. I just wanted to show my pretty pretty eggs...andyou must be using Chicken Math when you count to get 54. There is an even 5 dozen/ 60 eggs in that picture.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

48 Chicken eggs plus the turkey egg I previously mentioned.

I'm hoping I don't end up with 20 more roosters though.

 

[meesh480]

   Your temp outside isn't that bad really, now if the truck has it's door open..that would help.  Bet they are fine...waiting to see when you get them!

Mailman came with no eggs.... I called the post office and they said my eggs were delivered. I have no idea where they were delivered to. I am tempted to walk around my neighborhood to see if maybe he delivered it to one of my neighbors. I am so sad..

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Mailman came with no eggs.... I called the post office and they said my eggs were delivered. I have no idea where they were delivered to. I am tempted to walk around my neighborhood to see if maybe he delivered it to one of my neighbors. I am so sad..

Oh no! I'm so sorry! Hopefully, whoever got them will get them to you

 

[Happy Chooks]

@ Happy Chooks

^ Making Mike do his math, huh?

I count 54?

I told in an earlier post how many I put on. I just wanted to show my pretty pretty eggs...andyou must be using Chicken Math when you count to get 54. There is an even 5 dozen/ 60 eggs in that picture.

See, my math sucks.

I really didn't count, it looked like 3 18 cartons by glance.

 

[bamadude]

I picked up my eggs from bamadude today! I already set them, but I won't know how many eggs I'll have until I set quail next week.

Go eggs...It was very nice to meet u and your family. Super cool folks. Good luck

 

[JoyfulPromise]

Ok, I went through all this trouble to wire a STC-1000 digital temperature controller to my LG incubator, and technically, it is working correctly, but honestly, I am not very happy with it so far!

The temperature seems to swing a lot more than it did when using the regular LG thermostat. I have a Fahrenheit thermometer probe that I calibrated in the incubator, and it has max/min recall, so I placed it in different corners of the incubator and tested the temperature range. It swings from 97.5º to 103.8º in the same spot over 4-5 minutes!!!! I definitely do not remember having this much of a temp swing before!

Now I kind of understand why it is happening - I have the digital controller set at 38º Celcius (because 37.5 didn't get the temp high enough), and it has a .3º Celcius "Difference Set Value" before it clicks the heater on, so if I have it set at 38º Celcius, it waits until the controller probe reads 37.7º before switching ON the heater, but it drops to 37.3º while the heater starts warming up the temperature, and then it does turn OFF the heater right at 38º but the residual heat continues to climb until it reads 39.7º C or 103.8º F before starting to drop back down.

Now this is with an empty incubator, so I assume it will be more stable when it is full of eggs, but do you think I should be worried about the temp swing, or just average out the high & low temps and call it good?