The Duck Thread

[caesargirl]

LOL that's funny..e

Here's MINE. although it's not from my phone. LOL

Bahaha! Did you ever get your humidity under control?

 

[Lacrystol]

Well she's tap tap tapping. If no external pip by 3pm Sunday, safety hole? Pencil tip size? Hiya @WVduckchick

only still emoticons!

Time really doesn't matter but lets see what she does by tomorrow..

 

[Lacrystol]

Bahaha! Did you ever get your humidity under control?

YES guess how I did it. LOL I quit hatching ducks for the season. LOL. I have two girls that went broody so they get stuck doing the work. AHAHHAHAHHAHA

 

[caesargirl]

Time really doesn't matter but lets see what she does by tomorrow..

Got it. Thanks for all the help.

 

[Lacrystol]

Got it. Thanks for all the help.

Well don't thank yet, when we see babies Then you can but not until then. LOL

 

[caesargirl]

Well don't thank yet, when we see babies Then you can but not until then. LOL

Fair enough! I'm gonna go stare at my incubator now!!!

 

[WVduckchick]

Well she's tap tap tapping. If no external pip by 3pm Sunday, safety hole? Pencil tip size? Hiya @WVduckchick

only still emoticons!

So while you are waiting.

To get e you type a colon, and "weee"

: weee without the space in between

is : gig colon then gig without the space

is : thumbsup
is : smack if you feel like smacking someone lol.

There's a bunch of them. If you see one you want to use, prentend to quote it, and in the reply box, you will see the actual code to create it, then cancel your quote. (or not lol) but its usually a colon with some letters.
That smiley takes a colon before and after the letters "lol".

 

[desiree210]

Hello again

it's very humid in San Antonio and temp is in the upper 80's. My incubator is in my garage I have the door slightly ajar to keep it from getting stuffy the temp is perfect but the humidity is at 70 so the digital thermometer I bought says... The humidity on the incubator itself says 55

not sure which one to believe and will this hurt my chances of a hatching

 

[WVduckchick]

Hello again

it's very humid in San Antonio and temp is in the upper 80's. My incubator is in my garage I have the door slightly ajar to keep it from getting stuffy the temp is perfect but the humidity is at 70 so the digital thermometer I bought says... The humidity on the incubator itself says 55

not sure which one to believe and will this hurt my chances of a hatching

Can't trust the units usually. Take the one you bought out and test it. Take a soda bottle cap, shot glass, small cup of some kind and pour some salt into it. Add enough water to the salt to just barely make all of the salt wet. Slurry, not enough to make the salt dissolve. Put this salt slurry and your hygrometer into a Ziploc bag or tupperware container. Something that you can seal completely. Do not let the salt slurry touch your hygrometer, as it can mess it up! Wait a few hours and check the humidity reading. It should be 75%. It is a scientific fact that salt slurry is 75% relative humidity at room temp. Mine read 72% so I put a piece of tape on my meter and wrote "3% low" on it. So when I look at the reading, I know to add 3.
Even though this takes a few hours to do, its still worth it to know what's going on in your incubator and which instrument to trust. You can do it overnight while you are sleeping. Good luck!

 

[Lacrystol]

Can't trust the units usually. Take the one you bought out and test it. Take a soda bottle cap, shot glass, small cup of some kind and pour some salt into it. Add enough water to the salt to just barely make all of the salt wet. Slurry, not enough to make the salt dissolve. Put this salt slurry and your hygrometer into a Ziploc bag or tupperware container. Something that you can seal completely. Do not let the salt slurry touch your hygrometer, as it can mess it up! Wait a few hours and check the humidity reading. It should be 75%. It is a scientific fact that salt slurry is 75% relative humidity at room temp. Mine read 72% so I put a piece of tape on my meter and wrote "3% low" on it. So when I look at the reading, I know to add 3.
Even though this takes a few hours to do, its still worth it to know what's going on in your incubator and which instrument to trust. You can do it overnight while you are sleeping. Good luck!

Interesting.