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  1. dsljim

    Redwood Incubators - Information, help, for sale and wanted

    You're getting a slightly cooler reading in the trays because of the latent heat of evaporation ( the eggs are giving off humidity, which is cooling the air, and the eggs a little bit)
  2. dsljim

    Redwood Incubators - Information, help, for sale and wanted

    I'm gonna sell 2 gqf cabinets, just finished hatching with both in ear ly June, farm master 600 egg with push/ pull manual turners, and buckeye #14 style "E" , $350 each. I'm about an hour southeast of Niagara Falls..
  3. dsljim

    Redwood Incubators - Information, help, for sale and wanted

    [/IMG][/IMG] Anyone heard of or seen a Wyandotte incubator, its kerosene fired, it heats air and has a wafer running the flapper for regulating the temperature.
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    help, we have a chick that is hurting the rest

    Vicks Vaporub. On the pecked little on works like magic! They all keep their distance from him now! Wonder if works around plants I don't want eaten?
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    Redwood Incubators - Information, help, for sale and wanted

    Les any one know of a source for a burner or chimney for buckeye incubators? Or have you used a gas burner from something else with good results? And now I'm searching for an instruction or operators manual for the early Buckeye incubators.
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    help, we have a chick that is hurting the rest

    I got the same thing just tonight , I got 4 11 day olds with the feathers missing from the top of the wingsand bloody. I pulled the 4 and watched, nothing, so I set one back in, and one went right for the spot. I put the culprit in with my RIRs that are 4 days older and been watching for an...
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    Redwood Incubators - Information, help, for sale and wanted

    @Bresseman: I think so. Just bought a buckeye kerosene fired incubator, with a catalog and the manual.[/IMG][/IMG]
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    What age to let chickens out to forage ?

    It's never too early, last week it was nice and sunny out, so between the incubator and their box they got to play in the grass for a bit. I figure it's way better than living in a cardboard box in the mail for 3 days in March. Fresh popped popcorn or sweet clover blossoms are a real treat to...
  9. dsljim

    What age to let chickens out to forage ?

    It's never too early, last week it was nice and sunny out, so between the incubator and their box they got to play in the grass for a bit. I figure it's way better than living in a cardboard box in the mail for 3 days in March. Fresh popped popcorn or sweet clover blossoms are a real treat to...
  10. dsljim

    Redwood Incubators - Information, help, for sale and wanted

    Woulda anyone think I was crazy if I wanted to sell my 600 egg farm master to buy another sportsman?
  11. dsljim

    Redwood Incubators - Information, help, for sale and wanted

    Copper would be the way to build a pan, easy to solder, and the natural antimicrobial properties are free. Ever notice how you can see the coins in a public fountain? It's the copper and silver keeping the water clear. Anyone tried a frogger or other ultrasonic humidity pump?
  12. dsljim

    tips and secrets of the GQF 1502 sportsman...

    @ momhunter, do you watch the humidity with the wick on the thermometer? I'm trying a dry hatch, checked it once a week it hovered between 49 and 51% humidity. I'm using my other sportsman to hatch 30 eggs for Wednesday, it's hanging at 89° wet, it's using a pint of water in 24 hours, that's a...
  13. dsljim

    Redwood Incubators - Information, help, for sale and wanted

    Seems odd, the leahy in MD you posted a month ago is still advertised. They would sell in about 30 minutes around here. Any ideas what people did years ago instead of buying humidity pads? Does anyone know of any old time books written on hatching eggs, back in the days these beauties were built?
  14. dsljim

    tips and secrets of the GQF 1502 sportsman...

    I have no complaints with the thermostats, it's been 52° up to 95° around the incubator and the temperature has held so close I can't see it. on these humidity % , is everyone going off wet bulb / dry bulb readings?
  15. dsljim

    tips and secrets of the GQF 1502 sportsman...

    I have no complaints with the thermostats, it's been 52° up to 95° around the incubator and the temperature has held so close I can't see it. on these humidity % , is everyone going off wet bulb / dry bulb readings?
  16. dsljim

    tips and secrets of the GQF 1502 sportsman...

    Looking for some info on the older electronic thermostats used in the sportsman incubators. Last week I picked one up used, set the temperature, and depending on how warm the room was it would heat for 3 or 4 seconds then rest for 3 or 4. Then yesterday I added another 159 eggs and now it blinks...
  17. dsljim

    Sears RoeBuck FarmMaster Incubator Info Needed

    Just picked up 228.1036, it has 6 drawers with the same push/pull turners described above. Can't wait to find enuf eggs to fill the old girl, then monitor the electric useage with my kill-a-watt meter. Its4 times as thick as the sportsman's + it's painted silver inside to reflect the heat back...
  18. dsljim

    Help testing thermometer accuracy

    This is insane, just finished checking my thermometers against 2 new people thermometers, the $28 gqfs are reading 2-3.5+5° low. I'm glad I only put 30 eggs in the sportsman last night, and hopefully 24 hours of 102° didn't cause too much damage. The original thermometer that came with the Farm...
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    Help testing thermometer accuracy

    I checked 9 thermometers yesterday, and even the ones from my sportsman's were off 5° from each other. I'm going to find a medical grade one today , to find out which ones are right.
  20. dsljim

    Cabinet incubator maintanance

    Got the back off, the mouse nest is made from yellow fiberglass insulation. Feather dust from hatching? Maybe? It has accumulated while it was running. Looks like dust from paper bedding used for cows, I wonder if she was lining the hatching trays with paper bedding?
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