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

[yinepu]

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Originally Posted by yinepu

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...


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?

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.

"lockdown".. grr.. i hate that term... but anywho.. wait until you see an internal pip.. then worry about HATCH...

I don't worry about windows on bators or hatchers.. I just open them up when I want to take a look inside!

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.

exactly!!!.. sometimes (especially lately) I don't bother doing anything other than stop turning when I see an internal pip.. all of my guys have been hatching just fine dry... (no extra humidity or temp drop)..

 

[HEChicken]

lol.. my adults are pretty darn nosey.. have to see what I'm doing every time I walk out in the yard...

Oh my goodness yes, they are so curious. My RP hen will pick up any object I leave lying around, to examine it and see what it will do. Knowing this, I've placed many an item in one inaccessible place or another so she wouldn't be able to get it. She has taught me that there ARE no inaccessible places in my coop. And I'm still looking for the earring she removed from my ear last fall…..

 

[yinepu]

Quote: mine keep insisting that they are "helping" and that I NEEED their "help"....

I think the only ones who are worse are the mini horse and mini donkey.....

 

[Wasson6Pack]

Ok, thank you! I have never seen an internal Pip (as in breaking through the air sac). I have only hatched 1 batch of 47 so far and most survived, but last I candles them was on day 18. Do you guys then candle every day after that until you get a Pip? Then once you get one then you stop them ask from turning? In thinking they really are way more resilient than originally thought!

 

[yinepu]

Ok, thank you! I have never seen an internal Pip (as in breaking through the air sac). I have only hatched 1 batch of 47 so far and most survived, but last I candles them was on day 18. Do you guys then candle every day after that until you get a Pip? Then once you get one then you stop them ask from turning? In thinking they really are way more resilient than originally thought!

if I'm looking for internal pips.. I'll candle those particular eggs twice a day.. then as they pip move them to the hatcher... lol.. occasionally I forget and find pipped eggs in the bators peeping at me..

 

[HEChicken]

Not exactly….

Sometimes I know they have internally pipped because I can hear them chirping. I really don't candle on any kind of specific schedule and depending on the incubator and how much you have to handle them, I would recommend do it less often rather than more often.

I have Rcom incubators that recover temp/humidity VERY quickly so I don't worry too much about opening them. And, because the eggs incubate on their sides, I can candle them without picking them up. My incubation room is a basement room with no windows so it is very dark in there and I have a lamb on the table to turn on when they are hatching, but the rest of the time, I leave the room dark. I also keep a flashlight next to the incubators so when I need to candle, I just turn on the flashlight, open the incubator and hold it up to the air cell end of the eggs. I can see into them exceptionally well like that. I can whip up and down the line candling each egg and only need to have the lid off about 30 seconds to check on all of them. Super, super easy.

I don't necessarily candle on day 18. Honestly, sometimes I kind of forget about the incubators and don't check on them for several days. So when I do go and check on them, depending on how many days into incubation they are, I might just top up water, or I might do the 30-second whip around candling. It is easy to see if any are pipped internally because I will see them moving in the air cell.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Not exactly….

Sometimes I know they have internally pipped because I can hear them chirping. I really don't candle on any kind of specific schedule and depending on the incubator and how much you have to handle them, I would recommend do it less often rather than more often.

I have Rcom incubators that recover temp/humidity VERY quickly so I don't worry too much about opening them. And, because the eggs incubate on their sides, I can candle them without picking them up. My incubation room is a basement room with no windows so it is very dark in there and I have a lamb on the table to turn on when they are hatching, but the rest of the time, I leave the room dark. I also keep a flashlight next to the incubators so when I need to candle, I just turn on the flashlight, open the incubator and hold it up to the air cell end of the eggs. I can see into them exceptionally well like that. I can whip up and down the line candling each egg and only need to have the lid off about 30 seconds to check on all of them. Super, super easy.

I don't necessarily candle on day 18. Honestly, sometimes I kind of forget about the incubators and don't check on them for several days. So when I do go and check on them, depending on how many days into incubation they are, I might just top up water, or I might do the 30-second whip around candling. It is easy to see if any are pipped internally because I will see them moving in the air cell.

I only candle when I run out of room for more eggs.

Oh, wait...that happens a couple times per week.

 

[yinepu]

Not exactly….

Sometimes I know they have internally pipped because I can hear them chirping. I really don't candle on any kind of specific schedule and depending on the incubator and how much you have to handle them, I would recommend do it less often rather than more often.

I have Rcom incubators that recover temp/humidity VERY quickly so I don't worry too much about opening them. And, because the eggs incubate on their sides, I can candle them without picking them up. My incubation room is a basement room with no windows so it is very dark in there and I have a lamb on the table to turn on when they are hatching, but the rest of the time, I leave the room dark. I also keep a flashlight next to the incubators so when I need to candle, I just turn on the flashlight, open the incubator and hold it up to the air cell end of the eggs. I can see into them exceptionally well like that. I can whip up and down the line candling each egg and only need to have the lid off about 30 seconds to check on all of them. Super, super easy.

I don't necessarily candle on day 18. Honestly, sometimes I kind of forget about the incubators and don't check on them for several days. So when I do go and check on them, depending on how many days into incubation they are, I might just top up water, or I might do the 30-second whip around candling. It is easy to see if any are pipped internally because I will see them moving in the air cell.

lol.. I hand turn.. so I am always having my hands in there... and since I am messing with them anyway it's easy to give them a quick looksie when I think about it... but yeah.. there have been times when I have lost track of who is hatching when.. and hear peeping or see an external pip where I didn't expect one...

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yeah... with 6 bators that can hold 300 eggs each.. it's easy for me to run out of room... which is almost every day at times!.. so I feel your pain!

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

I'm going to ask here since it seems people are here. My eggs that I set for this HAL all have very different air cells. Some have to big and some are to small... I only have one bator and one hatcher. Idk what to do. Some still have loose air cells so they are hats to handle. I would use my hatcher as a bator but I just moved the chicken eggs to it since they are due on Friday but some are tiny badmen eggs and seem like they will come on day 18 or so... Any advice please?

 

[Arielle]

Quote: heeheeee-- I would be we have all lost earrings to a chicken or turkey. . .