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How do you go about becoming NPIP? Round trip from Iowa to Texas is going to be "upwards of fifty dollars", and that's not counting the time off from work I'd have to take.

We received our initial stock of chicks via mail order. But that was so many years ago that I don't recall how they were packaged nor which carrier service delivered them.

I'm confused. I thought the word "hatchling" meant a chick that had already hatched. I'm trying to send some recently-hatched chicks. Are you saying that you send eggs that are in, say, day 17 of incubation and you call those "hatchling eggs"?

I want to send some hatchlings to some friends. What is the best way to package them and what service is best?

That thermostat worked for a year then cooked my eggs, if it is the same mechanism as the AT8001. I then purchased a BTC201 and got one batch of eggs hatched before it started cooking them. I'm back with my Little Giant incubator.

I need a new home for this breed as the only neighbors out here at the end of a gravel road have asked me to coop them up. They made it through another Iowa winter without food, water or shelter and only a Blue Lacy for protection. This year, much of the breed was brooded by their hens, so...

We have improved the Bowery breed to be less reliant on guard dogs. I've witnessed a coyote coming to chase down our chickens and all he could do is watch helplessly as they took flight to the apple tree. He stopped coming after 3 days. The birds of prey don't bother the adult birds. I can...

I figured the air flow through the cartons wasn't that important so long as I didn't use the totally enclosed cartons. The main thing is the enclosed fan is really moving the air past the lightbulb so that the temperature is pretty consistent throughout the interior -- that and when the...

I've been getting 80% hatch rates on the last 3 incubator runs started June 2, 4 and 7, with the one started on June 2 having the highest hatch rate of about 23%. Since the June 2 run was exposed to basically the same conditions that the prior runs were exposed to I now think the most likely...

I have a suspicion that the reason I'm getting low hatch rates with many of the eggs nearly fully developed when I stop the incubation (usually at day 24 or 25) is that the temperature in the incubator is too low for those eggs despite the AT8001 reporting temperatures between 37C and 38C...

First, I'm not talking about farms. I'm talking about farm houses. The average family farm nowadays has about 10 times the land they did in America's heyday. The abandoned farmhouses from that era usually aren't listed because they aren't up to county code. Secondly, the abandoned farm...

I'm a special case -- surrounded by corn and soybean harvest leavings. See my breeding project description. Although its unlikely nutrition related, since I did have a good initial hatch this year -- prior to changes in the incubator set up -- in the event that it is nutrition related then...

I haven't candled. The only postmortem I've done is when I throw the unhatched eggs out. I break them open. The majority of them are nearly fully developed. The hens are being fed the same way they always have: Free range. They've never had a problem before this.

Taking cmom's trick of sponges soaked in water cups to keep the humidity up, I discovered that store-bought sponges are exactly the right width to fit in the spaces around the water reservoirs. The lengths, end to end, aren't quite right on two of the sides so I shortened them a bitand placed...

I bought an Digital AT8001 All Purpose Temperature Controller that I got off E-Bay for $15 and set up this incubator with it: The container is wrapped, more or less, with an insulated comforter. The white box is there to tilt the incubator as a kind of egg turner during the first couple...

All of the components for a DIY incubator are easy to come by or fabricate except one: The thermostat. Before we go further please note, incubator warehouse is out of stock on its $50 thermostat and, for crying out loud how can they be out of stock at that price? I'm going to explain to...

My second incubator run is on day 7 and it looks like they're developing despite a first-day over-temperature condition, however I do need a better candling system as these egg shells are thick and dark, making it hard to see.

Well its day 7 and I'm so bad at candling I couldn't tell if there were embryos or not. So I chose one at random and cracked it open, which was unfortunate for the embryo I found but fortunate for the rest. I think part of my problem is that the shells on these eggs are thick and dark, and my...

I see. Thanks.

Its only the second day. There won't be any noticeable change via candling.