Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Evelle]

aww thank you... they have gotten big cant beleave its already over two weeks

they are spoiled little things mojo expecally!! my husband talks to him all the time (if i keep saying him you think it will come true??)
holds him and loves on him (ha and he thought i was nuts hatching in the snow!!) we just might have a house duck on our hands

jules that sounds like me! i cant turn down an animal to save my life.. thats how we ended up with two dogs two cats three hamsters.. the fish. (the goats

) most my chickens.. i would only have barred rocks but a friend kept giving me her differant kinds of birds and now i like having a mixed flock.. but now i have to build a breeding pen for ducks silkies and orphintons

oh no!

 

[JulieNKC]

Where did everyone go?

Critterrun, have you had any hatch yet? Does anyone else have anything in the incubator?

 

[critterrun]

nothing yet

I got home to find the bater up to 105 !!!!

my son said it was 102 and he turned it down wrong he turned it up

I turned it down and pop the top till temps came down

I was bad I checked 1 egg

IT STILL WAS MOVING !!! can only hope

I know my thermomter was running high
so I hope it was not that hot !!

thermo is off about 2 degrees
but when I locked down I had to move them
so they might be reading higher

I have 3 in it
so I know it was high but hopeful not that high

did not take time to look much
just got the temp down

 

[JulieNKC]

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If it wasn't at 105 very long and they were still moving they should be ok. Hopefully they pop out soon.

I candle mine constantly. Right up until they hatch, as long as you're quick and don't drop the egg it doesn't hurt anything I think.
I'm getting frustrated with my incubator. I set the eggs last night, everything was fine but now my thermometers are off. The one that came with it says 97 and the digital one says 103! They both said the same thing all last hatch and up until today, so I don't know which one is right or if one side is hotter? I just switched sides they were on, and now I'm going to see if I can find another thermometer laying around somewhere to stick in there too.

 

[critterrun]

a few days ago mine did that too

i went on line and ordered 2 more dig ones

I just wish this was EASY

this is suppose to be a happy hobbie

I have 3 in there they all say something dif

they where all the same before lock down

so you candle during lock down??????

i did not think I could

Thanks for the support
I need it right now

so does my son he thought he was helping me

 

[JulieNKC]

You aren't supposed to candle during lock down because you can shrink wrap the eggs. I try not to open the incubator once I see pips, but if I have to for some reason I just spray the eggs with a little warm water and candle them real quick while I'm in there anyway. If I'm hatching chickens I dry hatch, and don't worry about humidity anyway.

 

[critterrun]

why would candleing shrink wrap the eggs

sorry I am new
this is my first hatch

I did dry too

Thanks
Deb

 

[JulieNKC]

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It lowers the humidity when you open the incubator. If you dry hatch though, the humidity in the incubator is the same as the room it's in, so I don't think it shrink wraps them. When my broodies hatch chicks they get up all the time to eat, drink, let another hen in to lay an egg, etc up until they start to hatch, then they set tight. Since momma chicken doesn't do lockdown until hatching, neither do I. She knows more about hatching than me, lol.

 

[Evelle]

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It lowers the humidity when you open the incubator. If you dry hatch though, the humidity in the incubator is the same as the room it's in, so I don't think it shrink wraps them. When my broodies hatch chicks they get up all the time to eat, drink, let another hen in to lay an egg, etc up until they start to hatch, then they set tight. Since momma chicken doesn't do lockdown until hatching, neither do I. She knows more about hatching than me, lol.

yup shes got it right.. you need the humiditdy to keep the ???Skin??? inner layer of the egg membrane to be plumpy and easy to rip when you open it it takes the mosture from the membrane and turns it into a rubbery sometime HARD like layer traping the chick inside

 

[critterrun]

Thanks for all the help

I just hope some make it

my Husband is already talking about next time

he wants to get the fan for it
I think he is hooked

I hope for this weekend Fri is day 21

but some look farther along than others
they where all put in at the same time