Posts by bairo

NP. LOL your right about it being off topic though. Im afraid I contributed to that as well. 

Quote: Originally Posted by labarn  I just got an incubator and I cant seem to get it to 99.5. I can get 99.3 or 99.7 but no luck with 99.5. How accurate do I have to be to hatch out my babies? Your kind of in the...

aoxa   thanks for the info; I traveled so much back then I must have mixed up my area's. That was about 20 years ago but I've talked to people from most of the places I've visited since then and they say it is about the same...

Quote: Originally Posted by themadchicken  Just remember a hundred years ago people did not have fridges. Eggs were put in a bowl and placed on the counter. If you wash your eggs then yes they need to go in the...

this is what got me started building my own btw..still good info   http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_941972&feature=iv&src_vid=ystNjNUs_6s&v=3D4gU4FnU94#t=15s

they look like new Hampshire's with a lot of white leakage from a cross in their blood lines. The white one looks pretty close to a Rhodie island white. If you got them all from the same person,I would say they are RIR / RIW mixes.

Jwatts;   I suggested earlier that you stick with a standard wafer thermostat because I see this is the first time for you building an incubator. I did not mean to take away from the posts about water heater thermos though...

Quote: Originally Posted by m35a2siek  I don't know if anyone else on this forum has tried this yet, but I set up my home made bator utilizing the thermostat portion of a fish tank heater. The thermostat for the fish...

Just found this thread as I am starting to look into blue Andalusians. I hope someone can answer a question though about breeding / crossing. I know that using an Andalusian rooster over a BR hen will give offspring that are sex...

Quote: Originally Posted by Egghead_Jr  Thermostats need to be inside the incubator. As close to the heat source as you can. Having a fan behind the heat source and thermometer in front works really well. Not...