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  1. MargaretYakoda

    Jersey Giants thread for pictures and discussion

    I may have given you half information. The temp I quoted (99.5) is for forced air incubators. I don't actually know the temp needed for still air incubators. You might have had a good temp there.
  2. MargaretYakoda

    Jersey Giants thread for pictures and discussion

    Yeah, that's a bit too hot. And it explains your early hatch. Have you had any issues with sticky chicks? Or curled toes? Anything like that?
  3. MargaretYakoda

    Jersey Giants thread for pictures and discussion

    Is your incubator holding at 99.5? Because 4 days early might be a problem. A big problem... I hope I'm wrong. But be prepared for a difficult hatch.
  4. MargaretYakoda

    Mama Heating Pad in the Brooder (Picture Heavy) - UPDATE

    Agreed. My partner and I were discussing this last night and we figured it also has to do with Big Ag. Not in a nefarious way, but.... when you've got twenty chicks they don't have enough combined mass to crush each other to death when they're cold. When you have 500? That's a different story...
  5. MargaretYakoda

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Maybe, maybe not. However, one of the people I live with has dementia.... So that kind of narrows down the suspects.
  6. MargaretYakoda

    Mama Heating Pad in the Brooder (Picture Heavy) - UPDATE

    Thank you. I did edit the post to put the link in. And I'll put it here also. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1126460/wool-hen-or-how-to-raise-chicks-with-no-heat-lamp-and-possibly-no-supplemental-heat-at-all The more I watch those babies outside perfectly happy, the more I think we...
  7. MargaretYakoda

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    X2. For the money, yes. The Incuview blows all the others away. And they have a discussion right here on BYC! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/852619/incuview-incubator Even with the incuview there is a learning curve. And, with more expensive incubators the learning curve might be less...
  8. MargaretYakoda

    Mama Heating Pad in the Brooder (Picture Heavy) - UPDATE

    Thanks for this thread! I'm experimenting along the same lines, but my investigation is focusing on how to brood chicks outside with no electricity at all. I have pretty good success so far with a wool hen. But I'm wondering now how to ditch even the first day's electric warmth. I'm considering...
  9. MargaretYakoda

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Frankly? That looks like a headache in a box. Have you looked at the Incuview? https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/852619/incuview-incubator
  10. MargaretYakoda

    Wool Hen: Or, How to raise chicks with NO HEAT LAMP and possibly no supplemental heat at all.

    So far, with the outside temp anywhere in the upper fifties to lower seventies, nope. They haven't needed heat. That's with 19 chicks, the wool hen, and yesterday I added a huddle corner. Today I gave away the chicks that aren't pure Jersey Giant, so we're down to a dozen chicks. I'm pretty...
  11. MargaretYakoda

    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Well, Yeah. Everyone should use what works for them. That said, I suspect as this method gets more use we will discover ways to make it work for everyone. That day is not today, though.
  12. MargaretYakoda

    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Absolutely will keep everyone posted. On a Facebook group just now I am responding to a person whose emergency is their heat lamp died suddenly and her chicks look like floppy rags. If more people learn that the heat lamp is (for most of us, maybe all of us) an unnecessary annoyance and a fire...
  13. MargaretYakoda

    Wool Hen: Or, How to raise chicks with NO HEAT LAMP and possibly no supplemental heat at all.

    @micah wotring Ditto. Please don't ever add a bulb to a wool hen. Fire is NOT a fun thing. And it doesn't help the chicks stay warm. ;) See my video from last night. It's 98 degrees in there. They don't need any more heat than that.
  14. MargaretYakoda

    Wool Hen: Or, How to raise chicks with NO HEAT LAMP and possibly no supplemental heat at all.

    LOL thanks. And I've done a math mistake. They are FOUR days old today, not five.. I'll be correcting that on the videos. Most of them hatched on the morning and early afternoon of Wednesday the 3rd. Only two hatched half a day early, late evening of Aug 2nd. Point being, they've only had...
  15. MargaretYakoda

    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Yep. 19 chicks. I think mass is key to this no supplemental heat method. I know that hatcheries won't send out fewer than six chicks. That's probably the minimum number. Here is how they were doing about an hour ago. It has begun to rain a bit, and they do have a tarp over them at the...
  16. MargaretYakoda

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Today. Most of the chicks are growing pretty fast. We have a runt who was indistinguishable from the other Jersey Giants at hatch, but developed what looks like a hernia or something about four hours after hatch. (I checked for open navels or any other deformity at hatch and spotted nothing odd...
  17. MargaretYakoda

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

  18. MargaretYakoda

    Wool Hen: Or, How to raise chicks with NO HEAT LAMP and possibly no supplemental heat at all.

    Old styrofoam coolers work great. The one that I had that was borrowed and never returned was a styrofoam cooler. And yeah.... I'm thinking the whole heat lamp thing is a waste of time and money unless you live in Fairbanks. This method is certainly easier than fussing with the lamp and...
  19. MargaretYakoda

    Wool Hen: Or, How to raise chicks with NO HEAT LAMP and possibly no supplemental heat at all.

    Today is overcast with a few very scattered rain drops. Temps in the low 70s or high 60s. They don't seem too bothered. I would like to add in a huddle box in one corner, however. I'll probably do that this afternoon.
  20. MargaretYakoda

    Wool Hen: Or, How to raise chicks with NO HEAT LAMP and possibly no supplemental heat at all.

    :D Thanks. This isn't my original idea, I'm just running with it. As for doing this without the heat mat, these guys haven't had supplemental heat since they were in the laundry basket right after hatch. In an area without electricity this could easily be done with jars of warm water wrapped...
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