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  1. BobMcDuff

    The Moonshiner's Bootleg Incubator Reviews And Discussions

    Update: Last egg hatched overnight (needed a little assistance but I believe that was my fault). If you don't count the many (expected) clears, we went 15/15, even with our first trial of shipped eggs.
  2. BobMcDuff

    Expanding the flock

    Yeah sure, why not let's have a perfect hatch. Truth be told I had to help this one, as I think the hole I made to observe it caused it to get stuck. I woke in the night with a coughing fit (we've all been sick ) and checked on the little one, and could see it trying to peck hard to zip, but...
  3. BobMcDuff

    The Moonshiner's Bootleg Incubator Reviews And Discussions

    My post to go along with first use of the Maticoopx (so far, 8/8 of our own eggs, and 6/7 with shipped eggs, but the last egg is still in there and active, so thinking it may hatch as well. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/expanding-the-flock.1654930/
  4. BobMcDuff

    Expanding the flock

    That was quick
  5. BobMcDuff

    Expanding the flock

    Two more starting to unzip
  6. BobMcDuff

    Expanding the flock

    Some pics of the earlier hatches
  7. BobMcDuff

    Expanding the flock

    This is Flash Bang... The egg that the flashlight smashed into, seems to be just fine (this was the 7:30am hatch).
  8. BobMcDuff

    Expanding the flock

    Over the night 1 more hatched at 2am (camera), and then 2 hatched at the same time just before 7am, and then another around 7:30am. While several more pipped as well. 2pm one of our big eggs hatched, just as I was starting to transfer some to the brooder. So far 12 out of 15 have hatched. Of...
  9. BobMcDuff

    Expanding the flock

    Wouldn't quite call this a Hatch-a-long as much as a hatch in progress. Over the winter we were considering trying to hatch out some of our own egg (we had incubated our own birds last time) to expand a little. Sadly New Years day we came home and found our rooster had passed. We tried...
  10. BobMcDuff

    The Moonshiner's Bootleg Incubator Reviews And Discussions

    I actually went into lockdown today to test out my attempt at 3d printing. You can find similar to these on Etsy by searching "Maticoopx divider", or if you have a 3d printer that can do 13 inch prints I can share the files. If my computer cooperates I'm going to try and make a version that...
  11. BobMcDuff

    The Moonshiner's Bootleg Incubator Reviews And Discussions

    What's the largest print dimension, I was contemplating making a version that could be printed in smaller pieces and then assembled (glued?).
  12. BobMcDuff

    The Moonshiner's Bootleg Incubator Reviews And Discussions

    I present, chicken jail. I can divide into 2, 4, 6 or 9 (if I printed one more piece).
  13. BobMcDuff

    Do they stud out roosters??

    For reference, we just put a new rooster with our girls around the same time we got some eggs shipped to us. Because of the timing we only had eggs from their first week together before we started to incubate. We have six hens. We put the rooster in on a Saturday, the first first fertile...
  14. BobMcDuff

    The Moonshiner's Bootleg Incubator Reviews And Discussions

    When I get home I'll take a pic of them. Hopefully they work /fit. Never designed anything for 3d print before. Printed at work as they have a printer large enough to do in single pieces. I have seen a number of them on Etsy though. If they work I might be able to break the files into...
  15. BobMcDuff

    The Moonshiner's Bootleg Incubator Reviews And Discussions

    Also, my first tinkering with a 3d printer, found some files in verse for supports for the eggs that aren't in a full rack of the turners, and made my own dividers for when they hatch so I can tell which chicks can't from which eggs.
  16. BobMcDuff

    The Moonshiner's Bootleg Incubator Reviews And Discussions

    Well... Thanks to this thread and several others I picked up one of the 30 egg maticoopx to replace my home made incubator (wanted autoturners and a smaller footprint). Currently on day 12 I believe (should hatch March 8th). This will be our first try at shipped eggs, and last minute we got a...
  17. BobMcDuff

    Hen looks... drunk??

    Coop is about 28sq ft, 9 birds (more than I had originally planned on). Run is about 160 sq ft. Dust bath was a mix of peat moss and play sand with a couple handfuls of DE thrown in and mixed.
  18. BobMcDuff

    Hen looks... drunk??

    All of our birds are slightly over a year old at this point, most have been doing pretty well lately other then some bald patches as the base of the tails on about half (not sure if an overly active rooster, of maybe a mite issue, we started spraying them on occasion with Poultry Protector and...
  19. BobMcDuff

    April/May Grow-a-long!

    I need to get some updated pics. Sadly 1 of the cream leg bars died a little over a month ago, wasn't sure why. Still have 5, and 1 or 2 have started laying, have to setup a camera to see who is actually laying
  20. BobMcDuff

    February/March Grow-a-long

    Sadly last week our only white chicken, rapidly got sick and then died 2 days later. A few days before that she had started laying shell-less eggs. It's a shame as she laid a pretty blue egg. From our march hatch we started with 12 eggs, 1 was clear, 9 hatched, of those we had 6 roo's (kept...
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