Summertime Hatching Hacks: Mastering Humidity & Avoiding Incubator Fails

Join Carey and Jennifer in this lively episode of the Poultry Nerds Podcast as they crack open the secrets to successful summertime hatching! Discover essential tips on humidity control, preventing common incubator mistakes, and the hilarious realities of poultry parenting. From handling incubator maintenance (without breaking the bank) to navigating humidity spikes, this episode equips you with practical solutions to improve your hatch rates. Plus, enjoy some entertaining "egg-ventures" and cautionary tales from the world of poultry social media. Tune in for laughs, learning, and lots of poultry wisdom!

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Transcript

Carey: 0:23

We are back in the studio, just Jennifer and I, and we are talking today about summertime hatching. I'm a huge fan of hatching in the wintertime because it's easier to regulate your humidity and stuff, and also because I don't like to get hot and going out in the barn in the summertime's hot. So there's that.

Jennifer: 0:50

And I just had cheer around.

Carey: 0:53

That has become a thing, I used to, would take a break every couple months I would cut my incubator off and pressure wash it, disinfect it so I could say I could, until I this was on the hatching time unit. I. I had the, the big fan that's in the back of the CT series? That's like stupid expensive when they go out. So

Jennifer: 1:21

I haven't heard one yet.

Carey: 1:23

I, okay, so you probably blow yours out a little more often than I did the first time.

Jennifer: 1:29

Of all the incubators I have, I've blown'em out one time.

Carey: 1:34

We also have a separate hatcher.

Jennifer: 1:36

I do. Okay. So that does make a difference.

Carey: 1:38

Okay. At the time I had this thing running, like I had something hatching every weekend in it. While other eggs were in it turning, and I mean it was going for five or six months, maybe a little longer, and it just sounded like a jet engine one night. And my wife says, I don't know what that is, but you gotta make it stop.

Jennifer: 2:10

It does get a little cruddy.

Carey: 2:11

I say that because yeah, they get a little cruddy, one of the big, most important things about incubating, which I will be the first to admit, when you let Mother Nature do it, that is the best because I don't know why, but you let a broody hen sit on some eggs and she's gonna hatch out 98% of'em no matter what the weather does outside, no matter what the humidity does. But when you take control, it's gotta be like a science and airflow is very important. Gotta blow those fans out every now and then, or get a separate hatcher.

Jennifer: 2:56

So I think I've had my separate hatcher, is it two years now? Maybe a year? I don't know. I think it's two years. And I finally decided it. I had nothing hatching in it for two days, and I was like, I wanna clean this thing, it's nappy. So I rolled it out into the main part of the barn with the big doors open, and I used the blower to blow all the dust out of it, and then looked at the fan and I was like, Ooh, ooh, that's pretty bad. Lemme tell you a little trick. The fans on the back of those things, they come right off. You don't have to unscrew anything. So we learned that the hard way. And messed up some rivets so you can just pull it and it will actually come right off and then you can clean it fairly easily. But yeah, they need to be cleaned a little bit every so often because I think that was the first time I had been turned off since I got it.

Carey: 3:55

Yeah. I would highly recommend you do as we say, not as we do, because I had to replace my fan and it was about a hundred bucks. So now I have a air compressor and I give it a little

Jennifer: 4:12

Yeah. I have a raw ob. Rechargeable blower would blow the barn out, and I just happened to use that and blow out the incubators in the hatcher with it.

Carey: 4:21

That sounds like a really good idea.

Jennifer: 4:23

It's on wheels, everything's on wheels in my barn. So just roll it out to the door, blow it out.

Carey: 4:29

So when I got my Hatcher a few months ago. Did I buy that for Christmas?

Jennifer: 4:38

Yep. You did?

Carey: 4:39

Yeah, I bought that for me for Christmas. Like it was really cool. You take it outta the box and ooh, there's wheels.

Jennifer: 4:46

I think Tamara got that for you for Christmas. You better give her credit for that.

Carey: 4:50

Yeah, that's right.

Jennifer: 4:53

Listen,

Carey: 4:54

I told her about it too.

Jennifer: 4:56

Yeah.

Carey: 4:56

But like having that on wheels, I. Is really nice. So one project that I've thought about, I have several GQF 15 oh twos, and what I thought about doing is stacking them on top of each other and getting one of those furniture dollies from Harbor Freight and setting the bottom one on that so I can roll them out too. But them things, I swear you should only incubate in them. Hatching in'em is rough.

Jennifer: 5:31

It is. We're not here to talk about cleaning incubator studies. We're actually here. We've done incubating shows before. If you need, if you're new to incubating and need to better understand it, there's a beginner one, and then there we did the one later. That was a little bit more advanced. So this one we thought we would do transitioning from incubating in wintertime versus spring and summertime.'cause there are pretty significant differences.

Carey: 6:06

Humidity,

Jennifer: 6:08

big time on the humidity,

Carey: 6:10

especially anywhere in the southern spot, parts of the US or

Jennifer: 6:18

I would think it would be anywhere.

Carey: 6:20

Yeah,

Jennifer: 6:20

because anywhere you're gonna turn your heat on, you're gonna be sucking the moisture out of your air.

Carey: 6:26

Yeah, that's true.

Jennifer: 6:28

Because most people have their incubators in the house.

Carey: 6:32

Like when I go up to my dad's in Missouri, even in the summertime, it's not really that humid.

Jennifer: 6:37

Really?

Carey: 6:38

Yeah,

Jennifer: 6:39

we're gonna get hate mail from all the people in Missouri.

Carey: 6:42

This, it'd be my luck this year. They'll have record high humidity. I don't know. But my dad, that was one of his favorite things about being up there is the lack of humidity.'cause it he has COPD or something like that. And this good old 80 plus percent, six months out of the year humidity in Alabama is a killer for him.

Jennifer: 7:05

I'm looking outside right now. It's a hundred percent.

Carey: 7:09

Yeah, my, my phone went off earlier and it said lightning detected in your area. I was like, really? It's been raining and thundering for the last 20 minutes. You're on top of it today.

Jennifer: 7:20

Yep. Okay, so when you're incubating in the winter time. You have your heat on and Yeah. That sucks the moisture out of your space. Yeah.'cause it's cooking out, right? So in the summertime it's raining and the heat is cooking it and the atmosphere and just humidity is higher, I would say in majority of places. The humidity is going to be higher in the summertime, so we're gonna exclude the people who live in desert climates. I would assume that would be different, but I'm not a hundred percent.

Carey: 7:59

Oh, and we'll also we can exclude people. I. Who have spouses that fully support their addiction or that their addiction hasn't gotten out of control and they get to incubate in the spare bedroom. Because in your spare bedroom, the humidity and all is what it is in your house. And summertime you've got the air conditioning on. Winter time you got the heat on. It's great. I. Yeah, I got away with incubating in my living room for a while.

Jennifer: 8:30

I started out incubating in this spare room too. Used to sit in there and candle them like 47 times to see what was going on. But that's how you learn, right?

Carey: 8:41

Yeah. People are like, have you candle'em yet, have you? I'm like, no, I don't. Yeah, I don't even have a, oh my God, I need a Candler. I don't have one. So I get on Amazon and I'm like, which one do I get? This one's rechargeable. I like that I don't have to keep up with batteries. Ooh, this one's double A. And so there's so many different options. And I finally, I ordered one.'cause I felt like I had to have a Candler and I didn't even know what I was looking at first. And I was like, okay, the thing glows. This one glows too. Whoa. Wait, what the crap is this?

Jennifer: 9:14

There's

Carey: 9:15

like a, maybe this is one. Maybe this is what they look like when there's a chick in them. So I went to, I went to Google and started Googling stuff and to me, candling eggs and what you see when you do it is really cool because like you see the veins, you see it forming, you can see it move. So it is like. Like a sonogram, but it's like right there in your hands and you're not in a weird office with odd things going on. So it's neat.

Jennifer: 9:50

It is. I remember distinctly the day I decided not to candle anymore though.

Carey: 9:56

See Me too. Because it got really old and people were like, oh, you should do, what is it? And I'm looking, and now people are like, have you candle them? What do you, how's it look? How's your hatch looking? I don't know where my Candler is.

Jennifer: 10:15

No, I have a really terrible story and I'm gonna share it with you. So I was candle and duck eggs and the duck hen was sitting in the woods and she was fine where she was, but she was sitting in the woods and. But she had way too many eggs and so I needed to thin them down a little bit, and so I was candling them, but it wasn't really dark outside and I threw one. David was standing there and I threw one out that I thought was a quitter and it wasn't. It landed on a rock and there was a baby duck inside and. Then it was gasping and David's mad and it became a whole thing. So I just, okay, I don't need candle anymore, so I don't,

Carey: 11:27

yeah, like if I get an order for Baloo, then I will find my Candler or just find a flashlight and I'll, run it up under'em and take the ones and toss it in the trash that are no good. And I'll handle'em real quick.'cause. PE people order those. They don't want that surprise of not something being in there.'cause it, smells worse than what is supposed to be in there. I don't even wanna go there.

Jennifer: 11:59

Okay, we're so off topic. Get back to our outline here.

Carey: 12:02

Okay. So in the summertime when you're candling or when you're not candling,'cause you don't have time. I would recommend you not doing it because the more you op, if you have a dome style, the more you open it, the more you let humidity in or out. And when you take control of what Mother nature can do easily, you gotta be scientific and keep your, keep it steady. And some people, they'll say, oh, you gotta have 55%, you gotta have 70%. Any of those answers can be right, but what's most important is that you have steady humidity. And steady temperature

Jennifer: 12:49

and not too high.

Carey: 12:51

Yeah. Because, I was, I have a friend of mine up in Canada and we were trying to troubleshoot some issues that he was having. He has he bought. Brin, I always mess up how you say it. I think it's Breia. Is that right? Okay. So that's one of the better quality, like tabletop clear dome. Incubators. And he had, he bought one of those because he had that good old solid NR 360 and. Used it for a couple years and had two of them and one died. Somebody talked him into buying a breia. The Brennia had a higher capacity and all that, but now he's having problems where the feet are messed up. The toes are crooked. And when a mutual friend talked to me about it, he was like, more about incubating than I do, so this is what's going on. I said I'm gonna tell you that can only be two things. He said, oh I figured it'd be more than that. I said, Nope. It's 95% of the time. One or two things. He said, what? I said, either your genetics or garbage. Or your humidity is stupid high. And he was like he's been using the same breeder birds for about five years. And I said what is he feeding them? He said the same thing because he makes, like he makes his own feed. I said, okay. So it's a problem with incubator. And we're talking and I see he sends me video and they have it setting on one of those table, like foldable table chairs, stand thingies that you use to eat supper in the living room. Everybody has'em. They might not use'em all the time, but most people have'em. But he had it sitting on that. And in the video I could see through the bathroom. Window raised up, and then I see like their bed and another window up and I'm like, okay, we got a couple issues here. He has a thermometer, hydrometer combo. I'm like, okay, set that on the table by the incubator and send me a picture in 30 minutes after you set it there. So he does, and it's really weird because they use. Celsius for temperature, but I guess humidity is the same percentage all around the world. So he sends me this picture and I'm like, 27. What? That's freaking cold. Why? They got the windows up. And then I'm like, I see the sea. And I'm like, oh that's only like 72 3. Okay, that's not bad humidity. That's not bad. And so I ask him about the unit. And the, it is, the instructions on those things are really horrible. They should be written by a bird person. Not by a junior scientist or something, but there's fill up this until locked down and then feel this and this, and don't touch it. He was at day one of his lockdown and his humidity was like 70%. I said, dude, there's your problem. He said, what do you mean it? It's always been like 70% before I take him out. I said, yes, but ideally it'll be closer to 50 until they start pipping 50 55 when the first one pops. From then on, you're gonna see it shoot up. But if it's 70 before that first one pops, man, there's gonna be so much humidity in there that's why your toes are getting, having problems. And he was like, okay, I have three more days. How do I fix this? And him being from Canada, he wasn't. He wasn't as familiar with Southern Engineering as I call it. And I was like, I said do you have any straws? He said, straw. I said, yep. Need two straws. Three would be even better. And so he goes and gets those and they have the vent that you open in the top.

Jennifer: 17:33

I said,

Carey: 17:34

open the vent all the way. Stick a straw in it, like squish it, whatever. Stick it in there. Boom. Get that done. Now I need you to slightly lift up the side and slide the straw in and then slide the other straw in. He's okay, why? I said,'cause we need to get some of that crap out. And so I get him to blow air into one of the straws that goes into the side, and his wife is oh my God this is crazy. This is crazy. She's freaking out and this happens. And the humidity, I get into blow on it a few times and then pull those two straws, but leaves the one that's sticking out the top. And I told him to get. Like a big blanket or towel or something and just wrap around the dome, knowing where your straw's coming up. And he said about two hours later, the humidity was like 48 or 49. I was like, all right, leave it there. And called me in a few days and lemme know how your hatch is. I got a picture of this morning of a crap load of chicks in his incubator. And from what I could tell, none of'em have crooked toes. If that's one of your issues that you have in the summertime because you live in an area where it's awkwardly humid.

Jennifer: 19:01

So let me just explain how the anatomy of the egg works a little bit. So if you imagine an egg straight out of the chicken, you've got the yolk and you've got the white, it's very liquidy, it's very wet. So as the chick grows that. Moisture has to leave the egg in order to end up with a dry, fluffy chick. 21 days later.

Carey: 19:31

Gotta go somewhere

Jennifer: 19:32

17 or 28 days. Whatever it is you're incubating. The eggshell itself is porous. And the humidity needs to account for letting the moisture out not too quickly, just right. So that the progression of the chick growing. And the moisture loss coincide to end up with a healthy, dry, fluffy chick. Now, I personally incubate at 40% humidity. I don't care what it is, button quail to turkeys, it's 40% humidity. And look,

Carey: 20:16

changing that incubator like. When you change, you gotta, which button is it? Do I Hold down? Oh, okay. Not that one. Oh crap, I'm in French now, oh, here it is. Now it's flashing and then you gotta change it. Yeah. Bump that. I'm the same way. 40. My, my incubators, they're on 40. My hatcher, it don't move. Boom. That's it.

Jennifer: 20:43

What's your Hatcher set at?

Carey: 20:44

60.

Jennifer: 20:45

Mine too. Mine set at 60. Now, assuming not everybody has a hatching time incubator, which we are not at this point advocating for hatching time incubators, this just happens to be what we have.

Carey: 20:58

Hey, I'm gonna tell you right now I have hatch and time. I have more GQs than I have half times.

Jennifer: 21:04

If you have tabletops it, it doesn't matter what you have. But you need to keep it somewhat consistent. And in the summertime where the humidity is higher in the general atmosphere, it's very likely that you do not have to add any water. So always start your incubator dry and see what the humidity is. You may come in at. Anywhere between 35 and 45 without adding any water. And if so, then just leave it. Don't add any water. That's called dry hatching because you didn't add water. It's just dry. I don't know what it's called, hatching. That's stupid. It should be dry incubating, but it is called dry hatching when you don't. But it's like parking on a driveway and driving on a parkway. It makes no sense, okay? But then when you get to the lockdown portion, the last three days, take the turnaround. You do need to bump it. Now, if you are running dry. You're stable between 35 and 40, somewhere in there. At lockdown. All I used to do when I started, when I had tabletops. Was I, there was no science behind it. I put a splash of water in the bottom of the incubator and I closed it. That was it. I didn't do anything more. If I had to guess right now for those who need a precise amount of liquid that I put in there, I would go with three tablespoons maybe, and then I would just close it. Now, those incubators, those were the old. I don't even, I think they do sell'em still, but I'm not sure they're yellow and they're, they tell you to keep'em in the styrofoam. They're a box. That's what I started. Oh

Carey: 22:55

yeah. Like the, there's a couple different brands that make'em Yeah. They're yellow and they're blue. The front.

Jennifer: 23:02

Yeah. Yeah. That's what I started with, and so I just. Put a splash of water in the bottom of it and close it, and there's no vents on those things. And after they were all hatched, which if you pop the top like just a little at eye level, you can look in there. Okay. Yeah. They're mostly hatched. And then I have little reader glasses laying all over the house, and I would just stick the earpiece of the reader glasses in the corner. To prop the lid a little bit to let the humidity out. So the dr the chicks can dry and fluff. So now understanding where, how humidity works with the egg, hopefully that will help you out a little bit better moving into the higher humidity. Season to incubate?

Carey: 23:54

Like this time of year where it's more humid. I've dry hatched.

Jennifer: 24:01

And

Carey: 24:01

They were a little wet. They incubated dry. I didn't put any water in there because. I couldn't find the tube for the little water thingy, but I wanted to incubate those eggs. You gotta raise it at hatch, right? So my wife has a water bottle that she uses to spray her hair with, pop the lid, squirt squirt, put the lid back down.

Jennifer: 24:28

Nope. Squirt bottle.

Carey: 24:30

I don't even know what I mean. One of the, one of the ones that I got. That somebody sent, I can't remember what company it was about a year or so ago, it came with a squirt bottle.

Jennifer: 24:43

Yeah.

Carey: 24:43

And I was like.

Jennifer: 24:45

And we did the interview with Ty not too long ago about doing the ducks, remember? And he said he sprays those ducks till they're like dripping wet.

Carey: 24:53

Yeah. But so when I got a brand new in the box incubator with a spray bottle, that just validated my redneck ingenuity of using my wife's squirt bottle. And so I was amazed, but. People, there are some people that are diehard dry hatch. You need to dry hatch and if you live in a climate where you know your, the room humidity is 40 ish percent steadily. Go for it.

Jennifer: 25:30

You don't need water.

Carey: 25:31

Yeah. You don't.

Jennifer: 25:32

You just need a splash At the end is all you need because when they pip, that means they're coming through that membrane and they're breathing the air in the air cell. That's why it's called an air cell, and they're fixing to come out of the shell, and that's when your humidity will spike and that's what you want. That's what you want. Now, if you've got it set at 70 or in, its. Bikes to 80 something I see people say, that's a rainforest. So just think about it. If you were in a sauna and you were trying to dry off, it's a moot point. There's no way to dry off.

Carey: 26:13

I've never heard it explained that way, but that's about the most accurate way.'Cause if you get in a sauna, it's gonna be in the high eighties to nineties. On the humidity and yeah, that's what you're doing.

Jennifer: 26:27

It's trying to dry off in the rain basically. You can't do it, so it's too high. And the other problem here is, remember I was saying that the humidity needs to leave, the moisture needs to leave the egg, right? So you've got to have that humidity in the atmosphere just slightly lower. So that the, everything wants to balance, right? Yeah. So the moisture wants to leave the egg to go out into atmosphere, so it'll balance well. If you've got it too high, then all that moisture is being trapped in the egg. And what happens when you're in a closed off space full of water? You drown.

Carey: 27:09

I was gonna say, you don't go anywhere for long.

Jennifer: 27:11

Yeah. You drown. So that is why you want the humidity. Just you want things to balance. Balance is key here. Yeah. You don't want the humidity spiking at 75, 85, 95. You don't want it raining in your incubator. Open those vents. Get that out of there. You want it? You wanna start around 60 and kinda let it spike up to about 70, and then you wanna start opening some vents and start negotiating with it, but not too quick because if it comes down too far, then. It's going to mess up the balance even more for those who haven't hatched yet, which people refer to as shrink wrapping. Yeah. That's like when I think a tornado comes through and it sucks all the air out of the room. Yeah. Same concept you're wanting to balance is the key thing here. Now, I explained to a customer the other day, he didn't understand why. He couldn't open the incubator repeatedly to pull the chicks out as they were drying, and I explained it to him like this. When a storm front comes through, the dog can tell, your eardrums can tell. Sometimes you will feel that cold smack hit you in the face, as the front comes across you. If you're outside, it's the same thing. You open that incubator, you've got. A, I don't know. My house stays about 70. You open that incubator and that 70 degree air is hitting those aches. It's like a storm front. And it is going to impact the it's gonna impact the temperature for sure, but it is definitely gonna impact the humidity.

Carey: 29:08

So I explained to somebody pretty similar. I said, have you ever went outside when it snowed? And they were like, yeah. So how did your face feel? That's what happens every time you open an incubator. Because it's a drastic change in temperature and it just, and some of'em, if they're. If you're having hatchability problems and you're taking chicks out when they're still wet and opening that door and candling a whole lot, that might be the answer to your hatchability problems is to leave the door shut.

Jennifer: 29:46

All right. I think we have explained how it works. You wanna talk about some of the things we're seeing on social media now? I like why?

Carey: 29:59

So we have seen some pretty interesting ones here lately.

Jennifer: 30:03

This one took the cake though.

Carey: 30:05

Let's go ahead and share your story.

Jennifer: 30:09

Okay, and

Carey: 30:09

Hang on. I gotta say this. If you are the person that did this, we are not going to reveal whom you are.

Jennifer: 30:20

I don't even know or

Carey: 30:21

what Facebook group this was in. So if you call us out, you are admitting to it yourself. We are trying to protect your identity.

Jennifer: 30:31

Yep. This is, boom. There you go. No, I don't even know what group I was in. I don't know a name. I don't know anything. This is not a follower. This is just me scrolling Facebook. Okay. So she was three days before Hatch and realized her humidity had been too high because her Hygrometer wasn't working and. Wanted to know about creating an air cell to an air hole to relieve some of the moisture now that

Carey: 31:08

filling a hole in the side of the incubator.

Jennifer: 31:10

In the shell. In the shell, but that in and itself was like, okay, this is a new person. Okay, we're gonna explain to y'all. So I go to the comments. The comments, whew. Okay. So the consensus of the group in the comments section, was to take a small diameter screw. And go through the shell, through the air cell, through the membrane, but stop before the chick because you don't wanna hurt the chick. And then slowly back it back out in order to create airflow. Now after I picked my jaw off the floor,

Carey: 31:58

so like I'm just sitting here picturing, this is what I'm picturing. I'm picturing a chicken lady.

Jennifer: 32:06

It was chicken.

Carey: 32:07

She's got a sheet rock screw that she got from her husband out of the junk drawer. Got her one of those yellow handle, like the old craftsman screwdrivers, one of those, and a husband's holding a mag light over the top of it trying to find, an empty spot in the air socket pocket thing and in a dark room. That's what I'm picturing.

Jennifer: 32:35

See, I didn't even put that much thought into it.

Carey: 32:39

I feel like there had to have been some kind of substance involved in making this decision.

Jennifer: 32:46

There was a little more to the story, but that won't be said on the, while the recording button is on. So anyway, after reading the commentary and picking my jaw up off the floor, the only thing I said was. Air, eggshells are porous and allow air exchange.

Carey: 33:06

Did you get attacked?

Jennifer: 33:08

I don't, my notifications don't work, so I wouldn't know if I did. So I don't know because I can't, I don't know where it was.

Carey: 33:18

But what you're saying is not only did one person have this idea,

Jennifer: 33:22

oh, it was a consensus of the group,

Carey: 33:24

but like multiple people agreed that this was a great idea.

Jennifer: 33:29

Yes. Yeah,

Carey: 33:35

so if I wasn't exhausted from what all I did this past weekend, I would scour the innerwebs and I would find that post because I feel like that post is comedy gold. Yeah, and I will say this, if any of our wonderful faithful listeners out there, if they saw that post and they remember where it is, I'm at Carrie Blackman, C-A-R-E-Y. Just tag me in it.

Jennifer: 34:12

Okay? So let's, if you found yourself in her scenario. Where you discovered that the humidity had been too high, but you candled and the chick is still viable. There is an answer that does not require surgery.

Carey: 34:32

Just let some of it out of the hu, the incubator.

Jennifer: 34:35

You can, you're definitely gonna do that anyway, but you just simply hatch upright. Because the chick is going to go up into the air cell. It doesn't matter if the air cell's on the side, if you lay the egg down, it's on the side, or if it's upright, it's gonna go through the membrane into the air cell, because that's how it's orientated inside the egg. So if you just simply set the egg. You can use lots of things. If you have a small incubator, which I'm assuming most people do, then just cut a toilet paper, roll into a little cylinder, and just set the egg in it inside of your incubator. That should fit inside a nature Wite 360, and then the air shell will be at the top. The chick will come out through the top. The liquid's gonna be down in the pointy end of the egg.

Carey: 35:31

Then it's gonna eat it

Jennifer: 35:32

and then the chick won't drown. So there is answers that don't require screws and surgery.

Carey: 35:42

Yeah, like I just, I'm not overly confident that would work.

Jennifer: 35:47

And I'm gonna also say that I don't think it would work at all, but I will say that hatching upright. If in doubt at any point, hatch upright, because I'm gonna tell you right now, I hatch all my buttons upright because I have dropped too many of those suckers trying to get'em out of the turn of the thingies that I put'em in

Carey: 36:11

the rails.

Jennifer: 36:12

Thank you. And so I just pick up the whole rail and set it in the hatching basket and they hatch just fine. It's not a problem. They will figure out how to get outta that shell. And if you forget and mess up your hatch days and they're still in the turner, they're gonna hatch in there too. They do not care that you didn't take it and set it on its side. I promise you they do not care. So

Carey: 36:37

what I wish is that my, like I have the same hatcher that you do and I really wish that I could just take the tray out. The incubator and just sit the sucker in the hatching box.

Jennifer: 36:50

It would be nice to put in it.

Carey: 36:54

Oh,

Jennifer: 36:54

what else have we seen

Carey: 36:56

on? I moved a thousand eggs over to the Hatcher in five minutes.

Jennifer: 37:00

Have you watched the Quail lady flip purse? The Bob Whites? She just flips them out.

Carey: 37:06

Oh, speaking of that,

Jennifer: 37:08

what?

Carey: 37:09

That Hatcher incubator that she has?

Jennifer: 37:12

Yeah,

Carey: 37:13

the, is it Rosewood?

Jennifer: 37:15

Yeah.

Carey: 37:17

I bought one

Jennifer: 37:18

big one. Oh, you can keep it.

Carey: 37:22

I got,

Jennifer: 37:25

You're gonna have to clean it up and tell us about it.

Carey: 37:28

Yeah. I'm really excited about it because. There. Just by, if it didn't work, it's a beautiful piece, but it does, it is fully functional.

Jennifer: 37:37

Oh, awesome.

Carey: 37:37

So I'm really excited about getting that and scared of what it's gonna take to fill it up because this person used it primarily for quail, and he said that he knows it'll hold 24,000.

Jennifer: 37:50

Holy mackerel.

Carey: 37:51

So

Jennifer: 37:53

that's for Bob White people.

Carey: 37:54

I won't need another one.

Jennifer: 37:56

No, you won't.

Carey: 37:58

And it's got two, two walk-in rooms and one he uses to hatch and one he uses to incubate. And then I'll be able to do like the quail 80. I'll just take thing, flip it,

Jennifer: 38:15

flip an eight. Done. Yep.

Carey: 38:16

Yeah, because that. Have you seen anything else crazy? I mean I have, but it wasn't really about incubating so much. I've seen some other stuff in some other groups and I don't know, I'm not happy at a lot of groups, especially some of the larger ones, because you have so many people that know absolutely nothing about chickens. But when you actually try to help somebody stop spreading those lies but what do you mean you're spreading lies and you need to stop? I'm gonna report you to admin.

Jennifer: 38:57

Yeah, I quit on Facebook. I don't care.

Carey: 39:00

I said, am Prolia does block? That's science. That's a whole

Jennifer: 39:06

nother, that's a whole nother podcast.

Carey: 39:09

Yeah, that's another episode. But like people, but when you're using a tabletop and it's new. I would consider the instructions for one, because the manufacturer knows their incubator, and if they include a spray bottle, try it out at Hatch. You know it. It will help. And when you do go to Facebook for answers. Close your browser, open another tab and go to YouTube. And to search for the same thing or check the person's reputation out that you're receiving advice from, because there's probably more misinformation than accurate information in a lot of the groups on Facebook.

Jennifer: 40:00

Yeah, I agree. Too. Many

Carey: 40:02

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