Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Marty1876]

I have no trouble with any hovabator, I have fanned and still air. Works best if you fill them up, though. If your only setting a few, but in baby food jars full of water. They will be nice little heat sinks to keep an even temp, and have a bonus too.... If you want to know the temperature inside your eggs, you simply take the temp of the water (with a human thermometer) inside the baby food jars. It will tell you if you need to panic or not if something has gone amiss with the thermostat. Usually setting lots of eggs or adding heat sinks prevents temperature spikes.

Naturally, I prefer the full bater method.

Hi Going Quackers, if you drop in. Hi everyone else.

 

[Chick a dee1023]

I have no trouble with any hovabator, I have fanned and still air. Works best if you fill them up, though. If your only setting a few, but in baby food jars full of water. They will be nice little heat sinks to keep an even temp, and have a bonus too.... If you want to know the temperature inside your eggs, you simply take the temp of the water (with a human thermometer) inside the baby food jars. It will tell you if you need to panic or not if something has gone amiss with the thermostat. Usually setting lots of eggs or adding heat sinks prevents temperature spikes.

Naturally, I prefer the full bater method.

Hi Going Quackers, if you drop in. Hi everyone else.

LOL, I'd LOVE to have a full bator! I will be jumping up and down next week when my 4 Lady Amherst and 4 Red Golden eggs get here lol (even though that isn't even CLOSE to full lol). I need to get my hands on some cheap chicken or duck hatching eggs so I can put them in my bator after these 2 hatch (if they do

) to do a test run. I want to do a bit of tweaking to my home made bator and hopefully add a fan to see if that helps my temp fluctuations. I don't want to put anything expensive or that I'm excited about back in this one until I get it to STAY stable. I messed with it a bit and have it doing well, but I'd like it to be doing BETTER at staying where I want it temp and humidity wise. I am def putting the pheasant eggs in the hovabator lol. Thanks for the awesome tip btw, I will def be doing that as well!!

 

[qwackers]

15 call duck eggs just arrived!!! none broken.... all checked and placed in cartons to rest and warm up!!!! soooooo excited!!!!! 6 hour rest enough or do i put them in after 12 and up to 24??? omgosh i can barely sit still!!!! no wonder my friends think im crazy!!

Probs abit late by now but probably rest for 24 hours. You may start seeing stuff soon, yay! I started seeing veins from day 3 of candling.

Good luck with everyone's hatchings and incubation!

 

[Kevin565]

 

[michellemcfeely]

I just had my very first Call Duck baby hatch and #2 is close behind. This is my first time hatching eggs. How neat and best of all my 17 yr old daughter watched it hatch.

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

I have no trouble with any hovabator, I have fanned and still air. Works best if you fill them up, though. If your only setting a few, but in baby food jars full of water. They will be nice little heat sinks to keep an even temp, and have a bonus too.... If you want to know the temperature inside your eggs, you simply take the temp of the water (with a human thermometer) inside the baby food jars. It will tell you if you need to panic or not if something has gone amiss with the thermostat. Usually setting lots of eggs or adding heat sinks prevents temperature spikes.

Naturally, I prefer the full bater method.

Hi Going Quackers, if you drop in. Hi everyone else.

Marty!!!

Great recommendation about the heat sink. I was having trouble with my Hovabator 1582, added a couple rocks and all was well.

I locked down 110 chicken eggs on Wednesday. 36 have hatched. They're keeping me on pins and needles. One duck egg pipped. Wrong end. Hooray.

 

[Marty1876]

Quote: Hope you get a lot more than 36 from those 110 eggs!

I hatched out 8 of 10 mottled Javas over the last day or so. One of them was a wrong end, whom I ended up helping after 36 hours, poor guy. He's well now.

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

Kevin!!!

Hope you get a lot more than 36 from those 110 eggs!

I hatched out 8 of 10 mottled Javas over the last day or so. One of them was a wrong end, whom I ended up helping after 36 hours, poor guy. He's well now.

This is the test batch from my cabinet. I'm sure the hatch will take a while. It's a darn lot of eggs.

 

[Marty1876]

That certainly is a lot of darn eggs! Hope your not having to hand turn.....

 

[Goin Quackrrs]

That certainly is a lot of darn eggs! Hope your not having to hand turn.....

No. I would be insane.