~*Third Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatch-Athon*~ all poultry welcome!

[Arielle]

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plain white rice in a shallow pan (more surface area) plus misting with warm water.. (remove eggs from bator.. mist.. place back when eggs are dry).. increasing air flow can help as well so long as there are no storms in the area or anything else to raise the relative humidity.. with a good thermostat it shouldn't affect temp any.. you just need to calm the air flow back down before pip...

Quote: Thanks FVF, I never could wrap my head around the idea that misting eggs causes drying . . . no doubt it works . . . just can't understand the science behind it. I can see it cooling the eggs . . but not drying the eggs . . . one of natures clever tricks.

lol.. evaporative cooling.. as the water on the surface of the egg dries it also pulls moisture from the egg.. basically wicking it away
Like this???

Lay out all eggs on a towel on the floor and mist with . . what temp water?? warm?? and how long will they sit there-- you said until dry, right. OTHerwise no point in adding more moisture to the incubator. How many times a day can this be done?? 1? 2?

I know by now that i should be less worried about this hatch but it is my first. As some of you know I'm incubating 6 eggs 3 RIR and 3 assorted bantams i have been looking for the tell tale veins and movement unfortunately all but 2 are white\cream colored eggs the others are brown and i have one blue one. I have been doing the candling like I'm suppose to but other than the egg's getting "dark" i can't see anything other then that tomorrow is day 14 candling and i have to say i am worried nothing will hatch.

Feeling woried is normal-- I was a worry wart the whole first season hatching-- often up at midnight candling after kids and dh in bed and had time for myself and the eggs. lol Can you see the air cell getting bigger?? Yes, the eggs do fill up with a chick and gets"dark", but the air cell will continue to enlargen ( is that a word?, lol) until hatchiing. Air cell should follow the diagrams.

Any one have a diagram of aircells handy? Maybe one for chickens and one for turkeys?? I like the colored one but don't know where I stored it!

One of Marshies chicks hatched last night! Its a cute little blonde one, so im thinking its part buff laced, since my breeder doesn't separate his colors. I relly hoping its a girl!

I also hope the next one that hatches is brown or grey! The other egg is pipped as well, so it should be out by dinner time. Im relly wanting to buy 2 other ameraucana chicks or polish chicks from my breeder to raise along with these!
OH WHAT TO DO!

Adorable!!

 

[bantambury]

Adorable!!

Thank you! im so excited for the second one!

 

[Arielle]

Quote: go baby go

 

[Alaskan]

I was out of town this weekend. Here I am back, and SOME of my eggs are now on day 18. My old incubator that loves to give me temperature spikes and send me into conniptions.... I was hoping to be able to take apart, clean, put back together, and use as a hatcher. I did all of that..... But I am not sure if it is really going to give me steady temps.

So....... My wonderful new incubator has a bunch of different aged eggs in it, all shipped, so I don't want to reduce their hatch rate by increasing humidity on the ones that shouldn't have their humidity raised.....

I guess I will just spend the next three days keeping a constant eye on my old incubator, now hatcher... But ARG!

 

[Wasson6Pack]

So if we set the Turkeys on the day on the chart, we are too go into lockdown on the 1st and born on the 5th? Does that mean that they lockdown for longer than chicks I thought chicks were 3 days.

I have 9 sweetgrass, 2 royal palms and 1 bourbon red wriggling around ready to come out.

I am working on gathering supplies for my dishwasher incubator. Do you guys prefer plexi glass for the window? I'm also trying to decide if I can make out a brooder on to and a Hatcher on the bottom.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

I just moved my chicken eggs into the hatcher but they aren't technically on lockdown. I can just control the temps better in there.

 

[HEChicken]

I don't "lockdown" - I never heard that expression until I came onto BYC.

I change conditions slightly for "hatch". I turn off the turner, raise the humidity and lower the temperature a degree.

I am not real strict on when I do that. Usually it is about 2 days before their due date. Sometimes I wait until the first has internally pipped.

 

[Arielle]

I was out of town this weekend. Here I am back, and SOME of my eggs are now on day 18. My old incubator that loves to give me temperature spikes and send me into conniptions.... I was hoping to be able to take apart, clean, put back together, and use as a hatcher. I did all of that..... But I am not sure if it is really going to give me steady temps.

So.......

My wonderful new incubator has a bunch of different aged eggs in it, all shipped, so I don't want to reduce their hatch rate by increasing humidity on the ones that shouldn't have their humidity raised.....

I guess I will just spend the next three days keeping a constant eye on my old incubator, now hatcher... But ARG!

I don't "lockdown" - I never heard that expression until I came onto BYC.

I change conditions slightly for "hatch". I turn off the turner, raise the humidity and lower the temperature a degree.

I am not real strict on when I do that. Usually it is about 2 days before their due date. Sometimes I wait until the first has internally pipped.

simple

 

[Arielle]

Hoping to get the aircell larger-- opened the top for better circulation, upped the temp a hair to compensate, Praying!!

 

[yinepu]

yeah i heard they can't drink cold water when they are little and have to be raised with chickens or other fowl so they will forage properly

nah.. you don't have to raise them with chickens.... I have a brooder full right now that have never met a chicken.. and they are doing great!

I don't find them to be any less smart than other poultry species. I raise a bunch every year & the only ones I've lost were either born crippled or my cat got one (a total of 3 lost).

I put marbles in the water & check on them regularly but usually by the morning of the day after I put them in the brooder they are eating, drinking & running around playing just like chicks that amount of time after they've hatched. I don't do anything different with them & they do just fine.

lol.. my adults are pretty darn nosey.. have to see what I'm doing every time I walk out in the yard...
for the poults I use marbles too... even bits of chopped greens in the food and floating on the water will work

I am using 2 light bulbs as heat sources right now 2 60w soft white bulbs. The thermostat is a wafer thermostat and I have 2 fan behind my heat source to blow the heat through out.

I have bulbs in some of mine and cartridges in others for heat... wafer thermostats in some and digital in others... with light bulbs heading the way of the dinosaur I may end up switching all of mine over to the cartridges..