Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

[The Christian chicken Man]

Yeah I love the thermometer and hygrometer I use. They have always worked amazing with my hatches.

that's great have You been hatching for a long time?do You hatch chick's or other poultry?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

You know, speaking about adding water to raise the humidity, I have never heard of a sitting broody hen adding water when she hatches her chick's naturally.

lol, No, but they let off moisture from their bodies and will even take dust baths in moist soil, it's pretty humid under them. It's always more humid outside where I live though and I always say the humidity is more of a "sweet spot" for each incubator in each location. Once you know what works well for you in your incubator, stick with it!

 

[FortCluck]

that's great have You been hatching for a long time?do You hatch chick's or other poultry?

I'm only on my 6ish hatch so far, but each hatch has been a lot of eggs usually around 42.

I'm doing ducklings in a few days because a gentleman asked me if I'd hatch him duck eggs. He doesn't want to learn everything about incubating and I don't mind helping him.

Technically I have experience in incubating since I was 7 years old. My grandfather used to incubate ostrich eggs and I have a lot of experience from that. He used to have me help him all the time. He would raise them for meat and eggs for local restaurants.

He passed away and the incubating went away. Then one day I decided I was going to incubate my eggs then people started giving me eggs now I'm an addict.

 

[FortCluck]

lol, No, but they let off moisture from their bodies and will even take dust baths in moist soil, it's pretty humid under them. It's always more humid outside where I live though and I always say the humidity is more of a "sweet spot" for each incubator in each location. Once you know what works well for you in your incubator, stick with it!

That's why I haven't added any water at all in my bator because it just seems to work. If I saw issues and not amazing results I'd change my tune.

I'm sure if somebody else tried what I'm doing it would be a complete fail for them.

When I do eggs from others they always ask me what I did to get such a good hatch rate and when I tell them their jaws drop

 

[CluckNDoodle]

There wasn't blood in the umbilicus though so that's why I didn't recommend it.

The one that I did on the little black chick had blood, but I still cut it didn't use tweezers but I did take a little corn starch and dabbed it at the end of the umbilicus.

Ever since I started dry hatching I haven't had that issue again. I'm telling you dry hatching has solved so many of my problems, but maybe it's just luck. I don't know but whatever dry hatching is doing for my hatches works.

Remind me again, because I have the memory of a skink, lol, which incubator are you using? I like dryer hatching in my styrofoam incubators as well, but I do add distilled water throughout the incubation process in my plastic incubators and I just monitor the air cells closely in all cases.

I know some people that put extra holes in their incubators and will keep them in the garage, never adding water and they have good hatches here in Georgia. I guess with our humidity and not placing them in the house where there is central air, it works well. This isn't something I've tried myself though.

 

[The Christian chicken Man]

I'm only on my 6ish hatch so far, but each hatch has been a lot of eggs usually around 42.

I'm doing ducklings in a few days because a gentleman asked me if I'd hatch him duck eggs. He doesn't want to learn everything about incubating and I don't mind helping him.

Technically I have experience in incubating since I was 7 years old. My grandfather used to incubate ostrich eggs and I have a lot of experience from that. He used to have me help him all the time. He would raise them for meat and eggs for local restaurants.

He passed away and the incubating went away. Then one day I decided I was going to incubate my eggs then people started giving me eggs now I'm an addict.

That's really awesome WoW!! I've got 2 56 egg incubators in my room now with a assortment of chicken eggs plus a friend who lives about 70 yards away here on the farm, he's got one of my incubators with 55 egg's chicken that is and he just bought a brand new "much better and nicer than mine "incubator and he's got 42 Pekin duck eggs in it, between the two of us we've got well over a 100 egg's. But that's really great that you're carrying on a family tradition that's very important, alot of people let traditions die and it's a shame, loved ones who have passed on would be very happy to see us follow their path most definitely.

 

[FortCluck]

Remind me again, because I have the memory of a skink, lol, which incubator are you using? I like dryer hatching in my styrofoam incubators as well, but I do add distilled water throughout the incubation process in my plastic incubators and I just monitor the air cells closely in all cases.

I know some people that put extra holes in their incubators and will keep them in the garage, never adding water and they have good hatches here in Georgia. I guess with our humidity and not placing them in the house where there is central air, it works well. This isn't something I've tried myself though.

I just have the farm innovator 4250. I use it in my house that has central air.

 

[FortCluck]

That's really awesome WoW!! I've got 2 56 egg incubators in my room now with a assortment of chicken eggs plus a friend who lives about 70 yards away here on the farm, he's got one of my incubators with 55 egg's chicken that is and he just bought a brand new "much better and nicer than mine "incubator and he's got 42 Pekin duck eggs in it, between the two of us we've got well over a 100 egg's. But that's really great that you're carrying on a family tradition that's very important, alot of people let traditions die and it's a shame, loved ones who have passed on would be very happy to see us follow their path most definitely.

When I was 7 years old I used to think that my grandfather was crazy hatching those ostrich eggs...

When I did my first hatch with my own chicken eggs, I said out loud "So this is why you did it" and I just felt so emotional and started crying.

I still get choked up candling eggs because I remember him holding the ostrich eggs in his big hands and he would have me take the flashlight and stick it on there so I could see the ostrich.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

When I was 7 years old I used to think that my grandfather was crazy hatching those ostrich eggs...

When I did my first hatch with my own chicken eggs, I said out loud "So this is why you did it" and I just felt so emotional and started crying.

I still get choked up candling eggs because I remember him holding the ostrich eggs in his big hands and he would have me take the flashlight and stick it on there so I could see the ostrich.

That's so wonderful that you can share that experience with your own children now!

 

[juliasflock]

Got crafty yesterday. This will be my incubator divider. Two smaller areas are for F1 and F2 OE. The longer one is for the Icelandic and BCM, I’ll be able to tell them apart. And the little tiny slot is for my 2 eggs I added late that will have another week to go. I left the bottom open for humidity. I’ll put some non solid shelf liner down, and then this over the top.
Lockdown Saturday! I usually lockdown right at the start of day 18, but I’ll be a few hours late due to a prior commitment. I know it’ll be fine, just freaks me out a little