Recent content by CamNorth

Welcome. I am an 75 miles north west of Minot and regularly come to 'town' for supplies. I am very interested in learning about becoming commercially licensed to sell eggs. I'd like to do farmers markets, and maybe the small restaurant in town. Currently I sell to individuals one on one. Are you...

Greetings everyone. How is everyone dealing with all this March snow? My place was doing fine until that beginning of March storm, now I've got deep drifts to walk over just to get to the animals. Did I mention how much my chickens hate the snow, they have stopped going outside completly even...

I just float tested my eggs and they are done too. My final tally was: 37 eggs started 32 in lockdown 9 unhatched 23 hatched chicks minus 1 cull Saddly I have to cull one, it was half the size of the other chicks and didn't seem to know what to do, wouldn't eat, would sit in the water and...

The 'little giant' type incubator I have doesn't let me see much, just a little. And the condensation isn't helping my vision. But I've got chicks, first one popped out yesterday morning, and now (hard to count) I think I have about 6 or 8. There are a few I can see with cracks (pips?) but the...

I love your video. That Brinesea incubator really lets you see a lot of the action. I don't think I could ever just hatch out 6 chicks or just 6 of anything. Although I did try with my bantam mix I got at the feed store last year, unfortunately they all were roosters. Anyone else feel the...

I've got chirping and wiggling, no chicks yet. I am very glad I joined this group, it is way easier watching everyone else deal with the same issues. Plus there are cute chick photos and videos to keep us waiters entertained.

Put the eggs into lock down yesterday. Threw out 5 very dead clear eggs, the we'll wait and see for the rest of them. Can a person have too much humidity? Last night mine read 86% and there was condensation all over the glass. I didn't think that was right so I took out the two plugs I had in...

Wow, a web cam that is pretty cool.

looks identical to a hen I have in my flock right now. Good luck :)

Yep, I'll be in lock-down on Wednesday too. I am very excited, but am worried about keeping the humidity high enough, it seems like every time I look, I have to add water. What are are you guys doing for lock-down humidity control?

I completely understand where you are coming from. I did read the link that had the great candling pictures. So this morning I candled all my eggs. I found 5 duds, that are mostly clear with a few blood vessels, no movement. Movement at this point (day 14) was my biggest indicator. In a couple...

I am trying to keep my humidity above 35% I am happiest when I see it at 45-50% which isn't too often at the 50%. It is very dry here in Northern North Dakota, haven't see rain since July, but I am keeping the incubator on my counter next to a small nano size aquarium (2 gallon) I know that...

woke up to 14% humidity, turns out the water I've been putting in the bottom is draining out the bottom vent hole. Ooops, got to learn some how. Texted the neighbor and she told me the water goes in the middle on the bottom, so I had to open the incubator. While it was open I found two white...

Greetings everyone. I've been lurking for a couple of days. This is my first hatch and I am learning the whole way. First i have 50 brown egg layer assorted chickens in the barn yard and borrowed a neighbors still air incubator with an auto turner. The neighbor has hatched out a few batches but...

Welcome. Glad to hear from another North Dakotan, it sounds like we might be neighbors, I'm from north of Stanley as well. I just got a couple silikes this spring and am hooked. My chicken flock keeps getting bigger, I cant go to the feed store during chick days with out getting more chicks...