Posts by wowmanacat

Quote: Originally Posted by wilbilt  I had a chance to test my solar charged battery and inverter last week when the power went out at about 5AM. While the setup will run laptops and charge cell phones for several...

I stared with a rooster last year, added three hens, then 4 more so I was up to 7 hens and 1 roo. I desided it was time to worm and all that since the hens had come from the auction. At this point hubby build me a incubator for the...

Quote: Originally Posted by TonySorrento  I thought about those hand warmers but I was worried about possible fumes??? I don't think they have any, they are a sealed pack. I found this...

Well my last two eggs hatched with some help. For some reason a lot of my egg shrink wrapped this time. With the last two eggs the temp was between 92 and 101 and humidity was at 86% I only opened once or twice really fast to see all...

Quote: Originally Posted by scorwin  Oh scary!  When I lose power, I lose everything water and stove too.  Now that gives me something else to worry about when I get my chicks in May!!! I would have...

I am so glad that I came across this thread. I have power outages from time to time and this is a great idea. The water coming out of my tap is at 160°, so it is on the hot side. hey, you can get two showers and not run out of water.

79% hatch rate for me that is good I guess.

I lost one of my chick, not really sure from what but it was by the water dish, I have marbles in the dish. the temp it the room was high at 107 or so. I really hate when the outside temp goes wonky.

Thank you so much for the answer, it did help a lot.  now how do you tell the base color of an egg? I got it, by looking at the inside of the shell under the membrane. most all my eggs are white base. I might have got one of two...

I hope this will make since. I have a rooster that came from a brown egg, a hen that laid green eggs, I am wondering if the chicks that hatch from the eggs will lay the color they hatched from or the color of the rooster came...