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I'm trying a separate hatcher for the first time. I'm using an old Hoverbator that I've incubated lots of eggs in over the years. This year, with a cabinet incubator I didn't think I'd ever use that old one again, but I decide to try it. Plus, this week I finally overran my ability to hatch all I can incubate. I just put 74 eggs into lockdown ! They don't all fit well into the bottom of the big incubator.

I'm trying to run the separate hatcher at a high humidity (70+ RH) and slightly lower temp (targeting 98.5). That comes from Porter's website for hatching turkeys, but I think it's probably good for chickens too. Chicks contribute their own heat in the last few days and I want to make sure the temps don't spike too high in that little incubator.

The turning racks sure look empty now, only 30 eggs left there, but that will change this weekend, I'm getting over 100 eggs to set this week (thanks in part to wingstone and blarneyeggs). Fortunately over half of both sets get immediately handed off to a friend that I am hatching for, so I don't have to raise them all.
 
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The TSC sold out of all the meaties by the time I got up there. Oh well.
 
CierraandDaniel said:
From these photos Cloud looks like a cockerel. Cotton I am unsure of. Right now, just from that photo, it really looks like she could go either way. Also, look at their legs , is Clouds thicker then Cottons?Also is he/she bigger over all? I have two white ones myself the same age lol and I have a roo and a hen. I also have a silver partridge from that batch from TSC that I forgot to mention earlier, but he/she is a runt. I cant really tell with her yet. (i hope its a her anyway lol)
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I was thinking cloud was a cockerel but I'm going we're wrong :/ my husband is claiming him for the chopping block of he is. We can't have any more boys and hubby's dying to try black chicken. Let's just hope we're wrong and they're both girls lol. Cotton is hard, he/she has a single comb so I can't compare the two to each other. Cotton is slightly smaller than Cloud but they're both big, large fowl type silkies. The waiting game :/
 
jmayday said:
I'm going to make a PVC waterer with 2" pipe schedule 40. 4 nipples hooked directly to my garden hose, do I have to put a pressure reducing valve inline? I think the psi for the nipples needs to be no more then 5.5. Does anyone have pics of there's ??? Thanks in advance....
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Yes, you need a reducer. A lot of people rig it to a gravity feed like a bucket then fill the bucket with the house. Or rig a toilet valve in the bucket, garden hose feeds bucket through toilet valve, bucket feeds nipples.

Me, I use a rubber bowl.
 
jmayday said:
I'm going to make a PVC waterer with 2" pipe schedule 40. 4 nipples hooked directly to my garden hose, do I have to put a pressure reducing valve inline? I think the psi for the nipples needs to be no more then 5.5. Does anyone have pics of there's ??? Thanks in advance....
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we don't have our together yet..sorry..we were not hooking up to the hose though..we were doing the bucket-hose-pvc w/ nipples set-up...gravity fed.
 
chiques chicks said:
Yes, you need a reducer. A lot of people rig it to a gravity feed like a bucket then fill the bucket with the house. Or rig a toilet valve in the bucket, garden hose feeds bucket through toilet valve, bucket feeds nipples.

Me, I use a rubber bowl.
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Using the rubber bowl now, but for summer & when we want to "get away"..the water system will work better for us & probably cleaner for them
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...when we got back from our Lancaster Co. weekend...
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is all I can say about the water..
 

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