rebelp74 wrote:This seams right, I've had some hatch before they were supposed to. Sometimes it dpends on temps. Did you turn the eggs or do you have an automatic turner?
assateague wrote:rebelp74 wrote:This seams right, I've had some hatch before they were supposed to. Sometimes it dpends on temps. Did you turn the eggs or do you have an automatic turner?
Automatic turner. I've been told that you can hear them, though, and there's definitely not anything coming from these two. Don't know if I should let them stay, or toss them.
assateague wrote:I don't know, it's not my incubator, I know my neighbor has hatched out probably 1,000 chickens with it, no problems. They're Plymouth Rocks, Rhode ISland Reds, and Americanas.
aunt betty wrote:We raised quail when I was a kid. I remember watching them hatch and they didn't all come out at once and some didn't make it. We also had mass die-offs when they got stress about ANYTHING. The dog barking...anything.
Once we got established it was easy.
Never did chickens. Wish we would have.
rebelp74 wrote:assateague wrote:I don't know, it's not my incubator, I know my neighbor has hatched out probably 1,000 chickens with it, no problems. They're Plymouth Rocks, Rhode ISland Reds, and Americanas.
Well shit, ask your neighbor what he thinks. He'd know better than any of us if it's his incubator and has hatched that many with it.
assateague wrote:rebelp74 wrote:assateague wrote:I don't know, it's not my incubator, I know my neighbor has hatched out probably 1,000 chickens with it, no problems. They're Plymouth Rocks, Rhode ISland Reds, and Americanas.
Well shit, ask your neighbor what he thinks. He'd know better than any of us if it's his incubator and has hatched that many with it.
He just came up. Said he'd never seen something like that before. There were two other eggs which had holes in the small side (which was down), and another which was cracked. I've kept the water full, so it wasn't a humidity issue, but he said even if it was empty, it wouldn't crack the eggs, would just make the chicks die before they could get out, because the eggs would be too hard. We cracked the ones which had holes open, and they had about a half-developed chick in them. Who knows. They're out of the turner now, and in cartons with a wet rag back in there. Hopefully we'll have at least 15 by the weekend. We candled the rest, and they are either all too solid or full of chick to see anything in them, just solid black.
assateague wrote:Didn't cost me anything. Eggs were free, and incubator is borrowed. Although it's definitely easier just to go get some damn chicks from the neighbor, but the wife brought these home.
shaken the piss out of it and see if it peepsassateague wrote:How will I know?
jehler wrote:shaken the piss out of it and see if it peepsassateague wrote:How will I know?
jehler wrote:shaken the piss out of it and see if it peepsassateague wrote:How will I know?
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