4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

congrats!
i got that once and got duccles, silkies,yokohamas, Cochin!

Nice. I probably wouldn't keep any of the chickens, as I'm trying to focus more on my waterfowl, but ya never know, right?

Oh WOW! I love this picture! So glad you got what you wanted for Christmas! (Even if you picked them yourself)
I'm thinking my hubby needs a new incubator.....are we all in agreement?.

I like how you think!

Passed by my incubator around 3 this morning, I look over and decided to check the temp... it was 110!!!!

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NO clue how it spiked that high, luckly enough, I have a food dehydrator ( no lamp or heating element) So I turned it down and it went back to below 100 within a min.

I candled, all seem fine.. a few hours ago checked agian, the ones I candled seem to be alive still. THANK GOODNESS..
I have to put my Double blue laced Barnevelders, EE, and Birchen Marans in lockdown tomorrow...

Oh No!! I hope they are all okay. Keeping my finger's crossed!

Its a homemade incubator, cabinet, with pvc shelves, the dehydrator sets at the bottom, and you just plug it up and go, it has a dial on the side to turn the temp up or down, it always sets at 99.5 without ANY changes unless I open the incubator up, and then after shutting, the temperature sets back at 99.5 within a minute. no lies. I then put the eggs in a styrofoam bator as my hatcher. I have decent hatch rates. and can incubate up to 200 eggs or more.. I really need to build me automatic turners for it. I only have one turner, the rest I hand turn.

Very neat idea. I've actually done something similar before.

~ Aspen

 

[Countrypunk92]

Fluffy, you know how bad, I want to grab that sebby and hug it? Really bad.....Lol

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Nice. I probably wouldn't keep any of the chickens, as I'm trying to focus more on my waterfowl, but ya never know, right?

~ Aspen

Should you run out of room, my pens will have space (so will the freezer)

 

[FeyRaine]

Here's 2 of my Christmas presents the wife got for me LF Mottled Cochins 5 hens an a cock bird what a great Christmas gift I hope you all get great gifts like these Merry Christmas everyone.

they look small till you consider I am 6.5 LOL

When I saw the pic. I thought, What nice BIG birds. Then I read what you wrote which made me laugh, my DH is 6ft5 so apparently I just picture all guys that size in photos now.
So how soon are you gonna set some eggs from your new flock ; >
FeyRaine

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Would yall want it just for the hatch or do ya wanna try to do a map database type thing open for all of byc?

 

[coldupnorth]

Oh WOW! I love this picture! So glad you got what you wanted for Christmas! (Even if you picked them yourself)
I'm thinking my hubby needs a new incubator.....are we all in agreement?.

I'm thinking mine does too.

Roscoe sealed his fate last night... He attacked my daughter. All she had to defend herself was the feed bucket and he went after her so hard, he put two holes in the feed bucket. That's it, he's gone... I'm not putting up with this kind of behavior!

My BIL has intervened to save his life, though... He has a friend who had a mean rooster who actually acted like a gaurd dog. Wouldn't let any one near his house. Then his daugther ran him over, so he's looking for another rooster, and actually wants one with a bad attitude! Roscoe's getting put in a crate tomorrow morning and taking a ride into town so my BIL can deliver him to his new home!

Sure hope I get a nice roo from the NYD hatch...

- Hoping you get a nice roo from the NYD hatch too!

 

[missydcpc]

Ooooo! Oooooo! How bout m
Oooooo! Oooooo! How bout me? I know you're not that far. Is there egg nog involved?

Absolutely! I have a jug of eggnog and a jug of rum to go with. Plus I have the recipe to make eggnog from scratch...

 

[ronott1]

Quote: If your hubby loves you a lot, then he will want to get you one of these:

http://dickeyincubators.com/

 

[Bettacreek]

Anyone know anything about paypal and ebay? I had a purchaser for a $16 item (free ship), and I was sent $14.78. I looked, thinking "wow, are the fees really that much on paypal?!" but there were no fees taken from the payment. They did an instant payment through paypal, but I'm still not sure where the rest of it went? The paypal fees should have been $0.78 for that order, so, umm, where did the other $0.44 go? Not that $0.44 is that big of a deal, but if that's going to be a recurring thing, then I'll need to adjust my prices to account for that. :/

 

[Jessiey]

Oh my goodness, I'm so excited you guys.... I got a rabbit hutch today, a solid wood on three sides, with a door on half of it. ^.^ I'm going to use it and turn it into my coop.