Who's Starting the 3-Day-Wait Today?

[Hooterville]

Congrats on the brahmas! I just love those chicks! What have you been keeping your humidity at during your hatch? I'm trying to stay between 65 and 70 this time around.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

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Anywhere between 60 and 70% seems to do a good job here for clean hatches.

 

[chicksgalore]

Anyone else not sleep very well last night? I woke up a couple time to check the bator and when I was asleep, I was dreaming about what else...hatching eggs!

 

[walkswithdog]

OMGOMG there's a pip and they're peeping! Worst thing about this metal cooler incubator is you can't hear them. I was checking them because the stupid temps had spiked last night and I was worried. Peep! Oh, you're fine - there you ARE! Yay.

 

[peepinglaura]

I had bizarre crazy chicken reams all night!

Were you able to get the humidity down?

 

[walkswithdog]

And no.... I didn't get much sleep either...

 

[peepinglaura]

Congrats, Walkswithdog. I have a peep here and there and a pip or two, but not exactly high level action.

 

[walkswithdog]

This is a shake-out run of my homemade bator, with mutt eggs and turkey eggs. Mutts due now, turkeys on the 29th.

Now I know what I want and need to change when it's over. All in all for a first shot and a small bator it's done pretty well. And given they're all pullet eggs with young fathers I'm pleased.

I only put in a few of each just to see how things went. And I thought (silly me) I wouldn't worry so much about these.

Nope... still nail biting, weird dreaming, sleepless nights.

I guess responsibility is responsibility, is responsibility regardless of egg source.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

Patience!! This is what's happening in my old Lyons bator!!!

 

[walkswithdog]

Awww mine are just pipped... wish I had a better view, those old lyons are still nice.