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We had a record cold March this year. I brood in a large cardboard box in my garage. The temperature in the garage fluctuates from 46 to 75 degrees daily. I usually use 2-100 watt light bulbs for heat, and mostly cover the top with a blanket to keep the heat in. in 1 week I go to 75 watt bulbs...

My Amberlink/ISA Brown cross chicks are 14 weeks old now, and beautiful. Both lines were developed from several other breeds, that showed up in the cross. Next year I an breeding Tetra brown cockerels to these pullets, as they were developed for egg production, just like the Amberlink, and ISA...

If you want gentle yet productive layers, that are extremely tame, get Hybrid layers such as ISA browns or Amberlinks. Do nothing but feed and water them, and they will still follow you around and be extremely gentle. The down side is that you cannot chase them back in the pen if they get out...

It sounds like most success is close to my figures. I run 40% till the second day of lockdown, then raise to 60%. When chicks start haching the humidity will climb to over 70%, from all the wet chicks. That is OK. When hatching 20, it only climbs to 62%, but they still almost all hatch. I have...

I just finished my 3rd hatch, with the Dickey. All very successful. 42% humidity, raising it to 62% on the second day of the 3 day lockdown. I am setting eggs every 11 days so the humidity is raised to 62% for 3 days in the middle of every cycle, but they are hatching great. No plans to change...

You can't make Amberlinks or ISA Brown's. These lines were developed by Hendrix genetics, from years of selective breeding for egg production and egg quality. My 24 Amberlinks have been averaging 166 eggs a week. You will be hard pressed to get this kind of production from any random cross. You...

I just finished my first hatch. 90% hatched with no mortality and 100% of the chicks are healthy. I collected eggs for 12 days, so they were 0-12 days old. I kept humidity at 40% till lock down ,then 62% It went to 74% when it was full of freshly hatched chicks. I am 100% happy with my Dickeys...

I just finished my first hatch, with about 90% hatch rate. No sick chicks and no spraddle legs. I kept relative humidity at 40% till lockdown, then 62% It did go to 74% when it was full of freshly hatched chicks drying off. I am well satisfied with my dickey bator. Also the eggs ranged from 0-12...

Things are going well with the ISA brown/Amberlink cross. Over 100 chicks hatched from 115 eggs. 7, brown varying from dark to very light to striped like a brown leghorn. and the rest are white. 100% healthy, and no mortality. Now in 20 weeks I should see how they lay.

I like to hatch my own, in my incubator, but I also like the extremely productive lines of layers developed by Hendrix genetics. I have 23 Amberlink hens, that are almost 100% productive, laying 23 eggs daily at least 6 days a week. I put 3 ISA brown roosters in with them, and after a month...

I have found .4 degree makes at least a day difference.

Mine has only 2 . one top and 1 bottom, in the back. Cover the humidity tray except for 1" and the vents 1/3 open, should get you 40-50%. Fine adjust by opening vents more to decrease humidity. Mine is in a room the farthest from the wood stove so the temp fluctuates. I bought a 3/4 inch thick...

I read it in a hatching guide on line someplace, and my% went up with my styro jobs when I started hatching at a cooler temo. I sold the styros and now use a Dickey. I like it.

Yes, the temp and humidity are viewed through the front window. I just candled my first setting of eggs on day 9. 7 were clear out of 150. They look great. I only want around 60 chicks,but set extra's because I don't know what I will get for a hatch rate. The humidity is easy to adjust by...

I just got my new Dickey incubator going. I love it. I got the model with 3 incubating trays and a hatching tray in the bottom. I debated between the 2x2 and this one, but Mr Dickey mentioned that with tray covers 13.40 Ea. any tray can also be used for hatching. I was happy to see that the...

Great! The Ideal temp for hatching is 1 degree less than for incubating. It should be great.

The ISA Brown or Amberlink would be your answer. Smallish birds large brown eggs and great feed conversion. I went with the Amberlink because they are slightly larger and better foragers. The cinamon Queen are larger full size birds so the feed conversion is considerable less. One reason I like...

The ISA people are the largest poultry breeders in the world. Their hybred ISA brown is only 4.3 pounds and has a feed conversion factor of 2.14, meaning that for every 2.14 Lbs of feed they lay, they produce a pound of egg. The heavier sex link birds from other hatcheries can't come close. This...

The red sex links sold by many hatcheries, that weigh 5 Lbs. + are crosses between a red RIR, or production red and a rhode island white ore other white hen. Any sold under the ISA Brown, or Amberlink labels, are from intensly inbred production lines developed for large eggs and a small 4.2 Lb...

Genetic Hackle, Fly Tie Chickens. Original bloodlines are Beaverkill valley hackleand Toni Marie Astin. At least 3/5 are pure Beaverkill, The remaining birds are from Toni Marie's fly tie hens bred to my best beaverkill cock..Great hatchability, and very good layers. I have invested over $300.00...