Ok, so I wrote about incubating redneck style. Well, I don't know where we went wrong or what the learning curve should be but there is only 1 egg or fluffy as Lili calls it that seems viable. There isn't even any development seen beyond air sacs in some of them.
Here is incubation photo day 11
Now, we have no training candling or hatching eggs. This is our very first go round. So, we are completely going by what we have been able to read and rig up for the eggies. We are trying very hard to keep the re-use factor above the expense factor. So far, we have. But now I'm questioning should we buy an incubator? I'm still hoping that we will have a broody hen at some point, but just in case I've been looking at different incubators and pricing them and that's a scary process!
Check this out:
Incubators as you can see the prices start around $50 and go up from there depending on how much you want to spend really. From internet reading, different people have different results with all the systems, so there is no stand out favorite.
It seems to me, the main parts of the incubator are
1. box of some type that will hold heat, but have some vents
2. Light for heat most common temps seem to say keep it 99-104 until the 18th day.
3. Thermometer for measuring the heat, you don't want them too warm or too cool. They won't develop properly or will cook.
4. A chart to mark the 3 times a day turning that is necessary until day 18, when you stop turning.
Some people use humidity along with theirs as well which requires a different gauge and monitoring. We are going with the 'dry air' method, especially given where we live. There is always humidity here.
So, in approximately 7 more days, we will find out if we were at least one successful hatchers :-) Then we will see about making adjustments to our system, maybe make it a little less redneck and a little more scientific, unless of course one of our girls decide to go broody!
Speaking of the girls,
Here is incubation photo day 11
Check this out:
Incubators as you can see the prices start around $50 and go up from there depending on how much you want to spend really. From internet reading, different people have different results with all the systems, so there is no stand out favorite.
It seems to me, the main parts of the incubator are
1. box of some type that will hold heat, but have some vents
2. Light for heat most common temps seem to say keep it 99-104 until the 18th day.
3. Thermometer for measuring the heat, you don't want them too warm or too cool. They won't develop properly or will cook.
4. A chart to mark the 3 times a day turning that is necessary until day 18, when you stop turning.
Some people use humidity along with theirs as well which requires a different gauge and monitoring. We are going with the 'dry air' method, especially given where we live. There is always humidity here.
So, in approximately 7 more days, we will find out if we were at least one successful hatchers :-) Then we will see about making adjustments to our system, maybe make it a little less redneck and a little more scientific, unless of course one of our girls decide to go broody!
Speaking of the girls,
This may be why nothing is growing really well in the garden yet!
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