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    Teach me about this OLD humidaire chest incubator, please!!

    Very neat! I suppose I didn't think too negatively toward the light bulb concept, but you're right, that would be seemingly unreliable. Do you have any experience on dating these things? I mean is this thing pre 70s or 80s..?
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    Teach me about this OLD humidaire chest incubator, please!!

    Would this middle chamber be designed for keeping the hatchlings or simply to house the heating elements due to the lack of a fan?
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    Teach me about this OLD humidaire chest incubator, please!!

    Correct, there is NO fan! As far as the vent on the front middle door, is this a way too manually help control heat...?
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    Teach me about this OLD humidaire chest incubator, please!!

    Ok, incubator experts! I was given a free ancient looking incubator. I did as much individual research as possible, but I need more. So many questions! I would LOVE to get this thing running this week. Including pictures of plate with numbers and the machine itself. Haven't plugged this puppy...
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    Mash vs crumble

    I'm not a huge fan of a heavy corn diet, especially commercial feed. I'll eventually have my own mix after we get more established on the property come spring time, I'm hoping the mash suits them well. I haven't gotten the hens yet, I'm still debating on which ones. Thanks for the opinions!!
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    Mash vs crumble

    I'd like for them to eat the dry mash if it works out that way! I had planned on setting out food freely and monitoring the amount they eat to guage how much I should be putting out to be as least wasteful as possible. I'll be starting up some meal worms in the spring, also!
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    Mash vs crumble

    I'd like to limit the feed only to where they are getting full nutrition but not free feeding over what is optimal. I want them to keep a full crop before I put them in during the cold evenings definitely. I much rather let them pick as they go and eat when they need to, but to ration the food...
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    Mash vs crumble

    So what if I were to feed them smaller rations (enough for them to eat within 15-30 minutes) twice a day with a warm mixed mash? I see some people like giving their hens the warm meals in winter. Would the mash (before being mixed with water) keep as long as the crumble would in the cellar...
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    Mash vs crumble

    Would it be more sensible to buy and feed mash or crumble for winter? I'd like for them to get the most out of the food with wasting as little as possible. Both are 17 percent protein. They will not have too much extra through THIS winter aside from the frozen and dehydrated scraps we've...
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    Mash vs crumble

    I'll start my first post with this topic! I'm pricing my feed for 4 layers over 18 weeks old for 6 months of feeding. We'll call that 186 pounds worth. All the mills I've priced have crumble cheaper than mash..except one. The cheapest crumble would be $11.75/50lbs. The cheaper mash, though, is...
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    New Homesteading Life

    Hello! I've been debating on joining BYC, because I'm always finding great topics and tips. We are a young couple moving onto land in WV to farm and homestead. Our goal is to soon be completely self sufficient while providing enough for our farmers' markets. The plan is to start with 4 hens this...
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