Washingtonians

[Roslyn]

Hey there! I'm a newbie both to chickens and this forum, but I am enjoying the experience so far and have an eight acre farm up in Cle Elum, Washington; I have about eleven chicks.
They were right, this forum is addicting!
Anyone else from my neck of the woods?

I have two Golden Lakenvelders, two Delawares, one Ameraucana (the other one was sickly and died :c), two Golden Hamburgs, two Black Australorps, and two Rhode Island Reds.
Is there anyone else who breeds/has any of these up here? I got mine from the grange store in Issaquah.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Thanks. It was interesting.

2x what CR said.

There are only 4 factors about eggs that can cause issues.
1) heat
2) humidity
3) air
4) deformity or other health issue with the chick.

So if you had the temp at 100 at all times, humidity at right place, incubator is not sealed tight to cause lack of oxygen then most likely it is just something that was wrong with the chick embryo.

If there was to much humidity the chick would have been soggy with dripping fluids.
If there was not enough humidity then the membrane would have shrunk around the embryo.

The temp is relative since the embryo's temp is more stable then the air so opening the bator should not cause problems there. unless the egg was allowed to get the inside temp down to dangerous levels. (I don't know what the dangerous temp would be I try never to get below 90F.)

As long as you have some sort of air exchange oxygen should not be a issue. In homemade bators this means a vent down low and a vent up high to create a air flow.

The rest is up to genetics and big guy and that's something we have no control of and just IS.

of your 4 questions the only thing I can think is maybe to high humidity... but you can see that when you open the eggs. you will get a "water" that pours out and amounts to more then the egg white.

I have a Brinsea 20 Octo and it works really well, but I am thinking that there were a few times the humidity got too high. The book said 65% or higher....a few times after readding water it was has high as high 80s. I would lift lid and "burp" out the humidity. I did this until it got into the 70s. Maybe this was even too much and I need to be more careful on how I am adding water and what the humidity should be left at. I am on the brinsea FB, I think I will go and post and ask.

Heat was a constant 99.5-99.7.

Thank you for the information. All of this is helpful.

 

[BarnChick]

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I am down in yakima, so not too far.
Glad you are joining us

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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From Ethel, WA You have now connected with one of the greatest, most caring and helpful groups of people you will ever know. This forum moves rather fast at times so be prepared but fel free to jump right in here.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I just got three Silver Spangled Hamburg hens, and am bemused by a Grange Store having golden Hamburgs.

from Lacey!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Hey has anybody heard anything out of broody lately?? I haven't seen her on in a while. Wonder if she has decided to skip the country with our huge share crop of expensive eggs that she is hatchin. Yes it is a huge crop of 4 RIRB eggs and they were very expensive free.

I am so worried about them

 

[pettec63]

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OMG can we say "sensitive"!! really why does it matter what you order as long as it's on the menu!!??? Jeez, well hang in there, you do the best you can, and you give them a great place to live, that's what important, what you do after that.... is your business right?? I can't say at this point I could cull my laying hens, I should.... but, I would rather give them to someone who may use them, then put them in the freezer, that's where I am right now, when I have chickens hanging off my earlobes, then.... culling probably won't be the problem.

I used to do pharmaceutical research and did the entire pre-med program at UC Davis - I have no problem dissecting things once dead, and I had no problem killing pest animals. It's seeing how the animal acts when it is relaxed and trusts you, and then killing it that gets to me. I did work however moving tests from animal based to cloned cell line - still had to use fetal bovine serum and fetal horse serum. It bothered me how it is raised and collected, but one sacrificial animal goes a long way. I thankfully never had to do animal testing on anything other than tomato horn worms, but everyone I know who worked in test labs, especially those who ran the labs for medical research is a vegetarian and overrun with rescue pets. It benefits the pharmaceutical companies as well to hire animal lovers; they need to be sure that any adverse affects seen in test animals is due to the product being tested and not from stressed and poorly treated animals. One gal I knew lost her pet dog, so she went to PAWS to look for him with her 6 year old son. When the PAWS volunteer was taking them through the facilities, the boy saw the pictures of the scientists in lab coats doing research on animals, and he pointed to the picture and said "Look mom, that's just what you do!"

Oh I'm sure that didn't go over well!!!???

 

[pettec63]

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hey there, I'm "down in the Valley" !! great thread glad you joined us you will learn tons!!

 

[anniesmom]

Is it time to give up?
It's day 23 and still not even one pip. I am convinced that the factory set calibration on my brand new Brinsea is off. It can't be the eggs. They are from two different farms and 4 different breeds. They were picked up, not shipped. I have been in contact with other people having the same model and the same problem. The temp is always lower than what the machine says it is.
I've ordered two different incubator thermo's to check. The directions for recalibrating the bator are in the instructions so obviously they aren't always set correctly. I wish the directions had said to check the temp first!
I'm really disappointed.

 

[herbandteas]

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I am sorry you had to go thru that because they did not pack it