Set some ISA Brown eggs today from Townline. And yes I know sexlink don't breed true. I'm very pleased with the egg production, egg color and shell quality. But i was somewhat disappointed by the egg size. Not seeing that XXX large eggs size they bost. I'm still pleased with the my birds though. I had read an article about breeding them and still getting great egg layers over the F2,F3 and F4 generatios. Its been a few years ago I had seen this article. And had a hard time finding it again. The gentleman that had done the hard work logged quite a bit of information in this thread. Along with a few others doing the same thing. (You can view it here. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/breeding-sex-links-third-generation.660815/ )
So this going to be more of an experiment for me. And with these eggs I'm going to use two very different incubators. Incubator 'A" is a farm inavotor with fan I've used before. Will be using my trustee spot check for temperature control. And a Govee humidity/temperature sensor (this should give the average temperature/ humidity at hourly, daily, weekly average as well as warning me if thing go haywire. First time using the Govee sensor hope it works). The sensoris sitting on the incubator floor in a corner. The Spot check is on top of eggs. That's why there's a 1 degree difference on chart. When I first checked the Govee with my Spot check, there was a. 2 degree difference (low).
Will be hand rotating the eggs 3 times a day. (Kinda like the hand turning than automatic turners). I've set 35 eggs in Saturday. Let's see what happens.
Incubator "B" is a Delaware hen. Well... nothing special there. It will be her first time haching eggs. She has been wanting to go broody for the last 3 weeks now. Hope she doesn't give up before she hatches. Just going to give her 8-10 eggs and a nice quiet, safe place for her to sit and let mother nature do the work. Pics below are of the birds and incubators I will be working with and a chart showing the last few days of incubation.
So this going to be more of an experiment for me. And with these eggs I'm going to use two very different incubators. Incubator 'A" is a farm inavotor with fan I've used before. Will be using my trustee spot check for temperature control. And a Govee humidity/temperature sensor (this should give the average temperature/ humidity at hourly, daily, weekly average as well as warning me if thing go haywire. First time using the Govee sensor hope it works). The sensoris sitting on the incubator floor in a corner. The Spot check is on top of eggs. That's why there's a 1 degree difference on chart. When I first checked the Govee with my Spot check, there was a. 2 degree difference (low).
Will be hand rotating the eggs 3 times a day. (Kinda like the hand turning than automatic turners). I've set 35 eggs in Saturday. Let's see what happens.
Incubator "B" is a Delaware hen. Well... nothing special there. It will be her first time haching eggs. She has been wanting to go broody for the last 3 weeks now. Hope she doesn't give up before she hatches. Just going to give her 8-10 eggs and a nice quiet, safe place for her to sit and let mother nature do the work. Pics below are of the birds and incubators I will be working with and a chart showing the last few days of incubation.
