The Great Egg Shipping Experiment!

[Toast n Jelly]

Happy Valentines Day!

I guess I had a Valentines Day Hatch!

After the morning coffee and breakfast--and also removing 8 little buggers from the hatcher, I have a better count. 11 have hatched, 5 are left and 2 have pips. That leaves 3 with no action.

I removed 8 this morning:

The chick in the front has the fluffiest bottom of anything I have hatched at one day old! Amazing!



They look nice don't they?



Three are still in the brooder and one of them already wants to be a condiment--It is in a condiment cup from Cattleman's Steak house!




wonder how many I will find in the hatcher tonight?

Lovely bunch and cute bottom!

 

[henney penny]

Eggs are in bator,waiting for temp to go back up.I am going to wait 5 days before I turn on the turner.

 

[ronott1]

Eggs are in bator,waiting for temp to go back up.I am going to wait 5 days before I turn on the turner.

 

[Bama1]

I put Wishers eggs in the hovabator with fan on Tuesday at 1:30 pm. I put my other eggs in Wednesday at 12:30 pm. Now over 48 hour since I put the first eggs in and over 24 hours since I put the eggs in yesterday. My water thingy temp is staying at 97.1 and my inside temp is 99 F . This is the same temps that I had reached yesterday before I put the second eggs in. Do I need to leave them alone or increase the temp?

 

[ronott1]

I put Wishers eggs in the hovabator with fan on Tuesday at 1:30 pm. I put my other eggs in Wednesday at 12:30 pm. Now over 48 hour since I put the first eggs in and over 24 hours since I put the eggs in yesterday. My water thingy temp is staying at 97.1 and my inside temp is 99 F . This is the same temps that I had reached yesterday before I put the second eggs in. Do I need to leave them alone or increase the temp?

Do you know how accurate the thermometers are?

One that goes to the tenths is best, so you can get to 99.5. If you adjust it, you need to just barely increase the setting. After adjusting, wait 2 hours before adjusting again.

98.5 and 100.5 are the lower and upper safe limits. Spikes and drops will not kill the eggs unless for long times of too high or too low. Too high will kill them faster than too low. both can cause hatch problems and not absorbing the yolk leading to sticky and shrink wrapped chicks.

You will have a fine hatch!

 

[Bama1]

I tested the one thats inside last week with the ice water and it was correct. The one in the water bag thingy is a digital oral thermometer for people. So.... ?

 

[Wisher1000]

Ron probably knows better than I do, but I would say give it another 12 hours at least, if the air temp is 99 (Point SOMETHING) the internal temp will get there eventually. If it were my eggs, well my 'bator, I would wait. I would also get another thermo/hydro from a pet shop (for reptiles) for a third "opinion." It measures in tenths. I have this one...http://www.ebay.com/itm/Flukers-Dig...648?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5899212e58

 

[Bama1]

I will go to town tomorrow morning to the evil walmart and get one of those kitchen cooking probe thermometer thing-a-ma-doodles

 

[Wisher1000]

I have one of those, too, I don't trust it. Do you have a Pet Supplies Plus?

 

[Bama1]

I have one of those, too, I don't trust it.  Do you have a Pet Supplies Plus?

Girl, I am in the mountains...we aint got no such things as that up here.... Chattanooga,TN is my closest "big town" and thats well over an hour away....durn chickens, I guess I am going to Chattanooga in the morning. what am i looking for? LOL