In my last post I wrote how I decided to hatch some eggs and had bid on some silky Serama eggs on Ebay and was hoping that my bid was highest.
The next day (Sunday) I eagerly checked my email to see if I had a notice that I had won the bid for the silky Serama eggs and I had! The auction was for 6 eggs and I really wanted a dozen so I sent a message to the seller asking if I could get another 6 eggs for the same bid price and within a few hours I received the message back that she would double my eggs with no additional shipping costs. I was excited!
Next I got out my incubator that had been in storage for the last couple of years. I dusted it off and gave it a good wash and put it out in the sun to dry. The incubator is the foam kind called a Hovabator. It has two windows on the top so I can see the eggs and a fan as well as the hygrometer that will show both temperature and humidity.
As the incubator dried I picked out my chicken books and reread through the hatching egg sections to refresh myself on what I needed to do. The temperature for hatching eggs should be 99 degrees with 35-45% humidity. I set up my incubator when it was dry and plugged it in after adding some water to the water pan. A few hours later I noticed the temperature was 99 degrees but the humidity was up at 76%! I opened up the two vents on the top of the incubator and poured out some of the water.
Now all I have to do is wait to make sure the humidity gets down to 45-50% and wait for the mail man to wait for my eggs to arrive!
Check out my blog for my ongoing story of hatching eggs!
http://loveschickens.wordpress.com
The next day (Sunday) I eagerly checked my email to see if I had a notice that I had won the bid for the silky Serama eggs and I had! The auction was for 6 eggs and I really wanted a dozen so I sent a message to the seller asking if I could get another 6 eggs for the same bid price and within a few hours I received the message back that she would double my eggs with no additional shipping costs. I was excited!
Next I got out my incubator that had been in storage for the last couple of years. I dusted it off and gave it a good wash and put it out in the sun to dry. The incubator is the foam kind called a Hovabator. It has two windows on the top so I can see the eggs and a fan as well as the hygrometer that will show both temperature and humidity.
As the incubator dried I picked out my chicken books and reread through the hatching egg sections to refresh myself on what I needed to do. The temperature for hatching eggs should be 99 degrees with 35-45% humidity. I set up my incubator when it was dry and plugged it in after adding some water to the water pan. A few hours later I noticed the temperature was 99 degrees but the humidity was up at 76%! I opened up the two vents on the top of the incubator and poured out some of the water.
Now all I have to do is wait to make sure the humidity gets down to 45-50% and wait for the mail man to wait for my eggs to arrive!
Check out my blog for my ongoing story of hatching eggs!
http://loveschickens.wordpress.com
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