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[perchie.girl]

Hello!

so what kind of horse are you getting.... and hello

 

[king tail]

so what kind of horse are you getting.... and hello

im hoping to get a Warmblood. do you like horses?

 

[Miss Ameraucana]

im hoping to get a Warmblood. do you like horses?

There are several horse lovers in this pond.
Hi everyone.

 

[Ravynscroft]

 

[Pork Pie]

Hi everyone.

Good morning to you both, from this end

I think my pullets must have been reading BYC last week. 3 out of 7 have started laying and my little punk cockerels have started mating (well, their version, at least) with my little blue egg-layer

I gave her a bit of a trim last night to improve the odds of fertility

 

[WalnutHill]

Today was my turn to kill my chicks. Not on purpose, of course.

I had 25 high dollar eggs including Ayam Cemani. I screwed up in many ways, and I know better and I am going to describe it here so that just maybe someone avoids making the same mistakes.

I incubate in a cabinet, and have the vents tuned just right for proper air cell development on MOST eggs. I have my best success leaving the eggs in the incubator until either they chirp loudly, or they pip externally, and then I move them to the hatcher. But this time I didn't stagger my hatches well and had turkeys due two days later, and we had a power outage for 8 hours the previous week where the temp dropped and then spiked to 103-104 afterward when the thermostat proved defective.

I moved the eggs to the hatcher before they pipped. It's a still air hatcher and holds humidity really well. I put 22 eggs in, checked the temp, and went to work.

I came home and found the temp at 103 and the humidity at 82. I opened it to vent it, but the eggs were still hot. I had to shut off the heat for a while to let the eggs cool down.

I plugged it back in and it looked good at 99F and 65%. I went to do chores and came back to find the whole incubator dripping wet...a few chicks hatched and released a bunch of moisture. I changed out the liner and saw a number of eggs were pipped. Humidity climbed again, and one pip hole started oozing yellow goo. Uh oh, I know what that means...gorilla snot.

I hate disturbing eggs until after the hatch is over, but a quick candling showed sloshy eggs and no movement. A few still showed hope so I opened port holes.

I lost over half my hatch to a combination of temp spikes and too much humidity. One of the casualties was a gorgeous super fibro Ayam Cemani. No clear or white anywhere :cry

I just had two back to back 100% hatches. What happened?

Moved eggs to early
Raised humidity too much
Too many eggs in the hatcher for the ventilation provided
Temp spikes several times
Chilling newly hatched birds whike trying to save others.

I still ended up with about half of the chicks alive. But they should all have been alive.

May my loss serve to educate others.

 

[perchie.girl]

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I have had horses for fifty years... one at a time. There are others here that have more experience training and showing

Here is my girl


deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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[perchie.girl]

Today was my turn to kill my chicks. Not on purpose, of course.

I had 25 high dollar eggs including Ayam Cemani. I screwed up in many ways, and I know better and I am going to describe it here so that just maybe someone avoids making the same mistakes.

I incubate in a cabinet, and have the vents tuned just right for proper air cell development on MOST eggs. I have my best success leaving the eggs in the incubator until either they chirp loudly, or they pip externally, and then I move them to the hatcher. But this time I didn't stagger my hatches well and had turkeys due two days later, and we had a power outage for 8 hours the previous week where the temp dropped and then spiked to 103-104 afterward when the thermostat proved defective.

I moved the eggs to the hatcher before they pipped. It's a still air hatcher and holds humidity really well. I put 22 eggs in, checked the temp, and went to work.

I came home and found the temp at 103 and the humidity at 82. I opened it to vent it, but the eggs were still hot. I had to shut off the heat for a while to let the eggs cool down.

I plugged it back in and it looked good at 99F and 65%. I went to do chores and came back to find the whole incubator dripping wet...a few chicks hatched and released a bunch of moisture. I changed out the liner and saw a number of eggs were pipped. Humidity climbed again, and one pip hole started oozing yellow goo. Uh oh, I know what that means...gorilla snot.

I hate disturbing eggs until after the hatch is over, but a quick candling showed sloshy eggs and no movement. A few still showed hope so I opened port holes.

I lost over half my hatch to a combination of temp spikes and too much humidity. One of the casualties was a gorgeous super fibro Ayam Cemani. No clear or white anywhere :cry

I just had two back to back 100% hatches. What happened?

Moved eggs to early
Raised humidity too much
Too many eggs in the hatcher for the ventilation provided
Temp spikes several times
Chilling newly hatched birds whike trying to save others.

I still ended up with about half of the chicks alive. But they should all have been alive.

May my loss serve to educate others.

 

[minihorse927]

so cute!

Good morning pond!