Technology nowadays is too easy!!

Watching a few eggs hatch in our basement and I decided to use my Iphone to video this one who just finished zipping, ready for the big birthing part. Then after it hatched, I hit on the phone screen "publish to youtube" and 2 minutes later it was on there!!! How simple is that? Also, I am amazed by the clarity of picture from this little phone toy. I am just not looking forward to the phone bill Here is the shot:
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Piet

Geez it looks like hard work, doesn't it?

Cool video!

Okay that was flippen amazing, I have seen many chicks hatch, but you caught it so wonderful. That is alot of hard work, and then rest baby, rest!!

Thanks for sharing that Piet. I hope your phone bill isn't too astronomical! I can never get enough of watching chicks break out of their shell.

Oh my, first time ever seeing that! How delightful, thanks for sharing.

Golly, that was wonderful. Loved seeing the steam come off it once out. So dear.

BTW Piet - off topic - what temperature approximately is your basement at when you're hatching chicks. I've heard to hatch in a room at 70-75 degrees right down to a cool setting less than that. I've been thinking about hatching in my basement where I don't smell my living room up with the scent of 'au de chick hatchery'.

ChicoryFarm wrote:

BTW Piet - off topic - what temperature approximately is your basement at when you're hatching chicks. I've heard to hatch in a room at 70-75 degrees right down to a cool setting less than that. I've been thinking about hatching in my basement where I don't smell my living room up with the scent of 'au de chick hatchery'.

Just put a themometer out in the room and let it sit for a while. It's a cool 68 degrees F right now in the basement (20 Celcius) and I also have the blinds shut all the time, so no sunlight or any other bullshit can hit the eggs . As long as the temp is steady is all I worry about. I have a nice thermometer/hygrometer that I trust and look at all the time, no guessing that way. I just use a hovacremator and just ordered another one that supossedly comes with digital temp and humidity which would be sweet. I don't really hatch enough to go with a Brinsea 190, but it is CERTAINLY on my wishlist!

Piet

That's great. Good to know. My basement is much cooler but do have a plug in oil heater I could put in there to take the edge off. I just hatched in my new Hovabator (I assume that's what you meant) and had a really good hatch, however the digital readout window collected so much condensation, I couldn't read temp nor humidity while chicks were hatching. I have to put a call in to them to figure out how to correct that. No other condensation developed on the lid....just in the little digital window.