2015 HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long, Join us IF YOU DARE!

[tiffani day]

  yes I see your point!!!!  that is alot of chicks to winter! at least the should feather out well before it gets too far below! 

Yea well it's really my husband's point lol I really I wanted to

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Alright, I talked to the MPC people, my eggs should ship Saturday.

 

[sonshine15]

Babies everywhere and more to come.....this isn't all of them but here are a few pics: (the ones in the coop with the older ones are no longer doing the huddle, they are flying everywhere and playing lol!

 

[tracyjg]

19 hens total. There not all laying . 3 rooster. 3 coops. We our not counting the four coop because only truck driver servived and she only one there. I do not have a basement . The grange is 90 degrees. So is the addict. The office is also 90 degrees it has no air conditioner. There's no where else to put them.every room of my home reach 80 degrees with air on. Remember it gets hot here we live in the desert.

 

[ronott1]

19 hens total. There not all laying . 3 rooster. 3 coops. We our not counting the four coop because only truck driver servived and she only one there. I do not have a basement . The grange is 90 degrees. So is the addict. The office is also 90 degrees it has no air conditioner. There's no where else to put them.every room of my home reach 80 degrees with air on. Remember it gets hot here we live in the desert.

I live in similar conditions but you are a bit drier.

You will have to add water to the incubator where you live. Incubating at 80 degrees works fine as long as it is a stable 80 degrees.

Best!

 

[tracyjg]

I do not have a cellar . We live in a 3 bedroom home. We have a dinning room laundry room living room all connected to each other open the only door goes to the laundry room. On one side of the dinning room is a door out side to the backyard . On the other side of the dinning room there a garage. In the garage leads up to a stair way that can fold up or come down that's an addict. It's even hotter up there I don't go up there at all. Tracy goes up there. It's to high for me to climb up there.without falling. Even up there it's not stable flooring. There's pieces of wood to step on. And everything stacked between wood pieces. On the other side of that is the office there double doors. It's a big room. The size of a apt. There one door leading to outside. In back yard and two doors leading to front yard. Off of the living room is a hall way. Then master bedroom and bathroom. Eggs can't go in there my dogs would hurt them . Then bathroom and then spear bedroom where the incubator out but there's no where safe in there to store the eggs. It gets hot in there also.80-70 with air conditioner and fan running and it can't go in child's room. See example on candling. You can't monitor it.

 

[tracyjg]

I live in similar conditions but you are a bit drier.

You will have to add water to the incubator where you live. Incubating at 80 degrees works fine as long as it is a stable 80 degrees.

Best!

80 degrees room temp most of the time. Or lower. All over the house. That's with air on set at 70. Tracy will not allow me to set it lower because he pays the bills and the animals or comfortable . We all have health issues. 70 for me is living in zero below for you guys. Because of my health I wearing winter clothes in home to keep warm. Why everyone else is in summer clothing.my body can't hold tempature.

 

[tracyjg]

The one incubator will not hold water at all or the humidity goes over 80 in the incubator . It stays 60 -70 humidity on to sponges not wet but wrong out. But hard to ring them out without moving eggs and opening the incubator. The other one will hold water but will not go above 50 humidity .

 

[tracyjg]

Dogs weight is 100 lb each.and you can't put eggs where they can can get knocked over by dogs cats or child.

 

[tracyjg]

We also live under strict religious rules about eggs and hens and birds. You our not allowed to sell eggs or eat them or disturb nests. So throwing eggs out is disturbing nest of life.