YO GEORGIANS! :)

[RoboDuck]

 

[PapaChaz]

I just can't understand how anyone could not like the sound of a rooster in the morning. A man that don't like a rooster crowing makes about as much sense to me as gettin' out of the shower to pee.

LOL I tried to hit the thumbs up, but I've used my allotment today

 

[RoboDuck]

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There's a limit? That's weird. But I gave him one. That last line was priceless.

 

[GAMarans]

Yeah, been a long day. Temp is at 99.5. I was going by the information on https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101 It says humidity should be between 65-70% at lock down.

I've never gone that high except with my earliest waterfowl hatches. The trend now is running with lower numbers. Incubating around 35 and hatching around 50. There will be people that will argue until they are out of breath for one way or another. I just know that, particularly with Marans, it had horribly sticky, wet, nasty chicks when I ran the "conventional wisdom" humidity. As soon as I started dropping my humidity everything started hatching better.

 

[carlene lamolin]

I don't mind a rooster crow but I don't mind a train whistle,or tree frogs either .

 

[valleychicks]

I've never gone that high except with my earliest waterfowl hatches. The trend now is running with lower numbers. Incubating around 35 and hatching around 50. There will be people that will argue until they are out of breath for one way or another. I just know that, particularly with Marans, it had horribly sticky, wet, nasty chicks when I ran the "conventional wisdom" humidity. As soon as I started dropping my humidity everything started hatching better.

The last hatch I had to help 5 out of the shell because they were shrink wrapped in the membrane. I had been running the humidity between 45 and 55%. I just don't know what to do. I don't have a way of getting the water back out of the reservoir. When I don't have water it was around 30% humidity I put just a little and it jumps way up.

 

[RoboDuck]

I love listening to frogs at night. But if a cricket gets in my house, I will tear a room apart until I find it and relocate it.

 

[GAMarans]

The last hatch I had to help 5 out of the shell because they were shrink wrapped in the membrane. I had been running the humidity between 45 and 55%. I just don't know what to do. I don't have a way of getting the water back out of the reservoir. When I don't have water it was around 30% humidity I put just a little and it jumps way up. 

Have you double-checked the accuracy of your gauge?

 

[valleychicks]

Have you double-checked the accuracy of your gauge?

I have two store bought gauges one is digital that has the temp and humidity and the other is the old style with red liquid in the glass and a humidity gauge. They both matched up with my home temp gauge. The one built in to the bator is measuring lower.

 

[PapaChaz]

There's a limit? That's weird. But I gave him one. That last line was priceless.

yeah I think it's silly to limit the number of times a day you can agree with someone or let them know their post was helpful. I do it a lot. And yes, that last line was indeed

I don't mind a rooster crow but I don't mind a train whistle,or tree frogs either .

I know, right? when we bought this place in the country and moved out here, man oh man, the neighbors have a big catfish pond (yes they let people fish in it) man the frogs at night are awesome.

the train whistle, well, if it's off in the distance it has a nice relaxing sound to it (to me) however, we lived right at the intersection of two roads where the tracks crossed. THAT whistle every couple of hours for the 14 years we lived there got old really fast.........

and actually we have neighbors who have chickens, just a few houses down from the barking dogs. Their rooster crows off and on all day, and I can hear the hens egg songs. I haven't been over to see if they keep the coop locked or if I could manage a few 'free' eggs from time to time until mine start laying.......