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I was mistaken about Crested Cream Legbars being an Ameraucana cross as what I read says Araucana and I thought it was Ameraucana. "The Legbar is a rare British autosexing chicken breed. It was created in the early twentieth century by Reginald Crundall Punnett and Michael Pease at the...

The history I read said the blue egg gene in the Crested Cream Legbar came from the Araucana but it is true they all came from the same distant relatives. What I call Easter Eggers are not as removed as what some call Easter Eggers but I can't change the fact that they have become so crossbred...

They would be the carrier of the blue egg genetics. The chicks do not resemble Easter Eggers (non-standard or hatchery Ameraucanas) so I am thinking they are out of a Cream Legbar cross as opposed to an Easter Egger cross. Neither Easter Eggers nor Crested Cream Legbars have feathered legs so...

Crested Cream Legbar cross, most likely. Some people are using them to make colored egg layers.

Yes, I guess I should have said skin temperature instead of body temperature. A newly hatched chick's body temperature is 103.5 which is also higher than the 99.5 temp used for incubation. And the hens do make sure not to overheat the eggs in extreme hot weather but their own bodies do not...

I have not read the article and I have a different incubator but I wanted to point out that hatching temperature is usually at a slightly lower temperature so dropping the height of the eggs would help that happen without adjusting the incubator temperature. Perhaps the increased air needed for...

I think this is why numbers don't mean anything with the Little Giant incubators and there are no number settings anywhere. The goal is to get the temp where you want it at the egg level and not worry about the temp in other parts of the incubator. If you measure above the eggs it will read...

I use fans in my Little Giant incubators that we use to incubate chicken eggs and they do hatch better with the fans. I am using still air for ducklings so they don't dry out from the fan but I have thought about trying the duck eggs in the forced air incubators and just using the still air for...

My daughter did everything wrong, including putting in the eggs dirty, but one has actually hatched! She threw out all the visibly bad eggs using a flashlight since our candler bulbs are burned out and we can't find replacements anymore and the rest went into lockdown. I did not think any would...

I think we may have lost our hatch of duck eggs that got too low when my daughter adjusted the thermostat during hot weather to keep them from getting too hot. I think it was only as low as 97 or 98 so I had hoped they would just hatch late but they were due on Monday and today is Friday. I...

I don't like the ones with thermometers installed. The Little Giant incubators come with a disposable thermometer that sits on top of the eggs so you can use several to get a sense of the temp but then you put them away or throw them away once the temp is correct and your hatches are on time...

When you reply you just need to use the quotation marks below the post and then choose "quote and reply" to get the quote coding in your message. Our Dollar Tree does not have those but I have seen other ways to make them. We don't have a good thermometer, though, so I figure if I need to buy...

Yes, I taught her that too high is fatal while too low results in late hatches and possible defects. She did good preventing a fatal temperature spoke but she did not need to mess with the setting, she could have just removed tbe lid to let the eggs cool off. I want to get a thermometer we can...

My daughter is doing her first solo duck egg hatching and the hatch is already late because she adjusted the temperature during a heat spike of 102 degrees instead of just opening the incubator to let the eggs cool down and leaving the setting alone. Now we have to set it all over again and my...

That looks like a good idea. I was thinking spray paint but it might be easier to paint it on with a brush.

I thought about trying it on my hatching incubator first since that is the one that gets messy and the chicks and ducklings are in it for a shorter time (although it runs constantly between cleanings since we do staggered hatched in it). I have dropped the temp and used it as an early brooder...

I have thought about taking apart my styrofoam incubators and painting over the stryofoam with appliance paint inside and out to make them easy to clean. Has anyone tried painting their incubator? The Farm Innovators incubator has a plastic outer shell that actually make me more afraid to...

I have been hatching successfully with them for so long that there has been no need to spend more money on something else. From what I have read, all the extra stuff does not measure accurately anyway so I won't be upgrading my LG incubators either. I would still be using my very first ones I...

What I want to add to my set-up is a thermometer that measures the core egg temperature instead of the air temperature and the plastic liner that makes the hatching mess easier to clean. Both are a bit more than I want to spend so for now I am doing without. My hatching incubator is the only...

I have 3 forced air LG 9200 incubators for chicken eggs and 5 still air LG 9200 incubators for duck eggs. I bought some new for $40 and some used for half that. I use automatic turners in 7 incubators and the 8th one is my hatching incubator. The incubators are on wire racks to give them good...