5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[ronott1]

Does anyone use a brinsea octagon 40 Eco? If so do you like it?

I have the Octagon 40 advance. It is completely rock steady.

Someone you don't want to take on in a fight!

That Irish/German is a wicked combo! My husband is that. I have a touch of German but more Scott and Irish with some French and English thrown in.

Just caught up on about 100 posts!

I have a question I'm hoping someone can answer. My incubator is in my unused bathroom. That's pretty much the only place it can go. But I've been using that room for brooding chicks. They are about 3 weeks old, and they are spending their days outside, but coming in at night. It just occurred to me that having 15 chicks breathing in the bathroom might make my humidity higher at night. Thoughts?

I would watch the humidity but it should be fine.

Can you leave the door open?

This is a good point for good oxygen exchange too.

 

[pamygh]

My broody hen. She is only 9 months old

She is an austrolorp. She is setting 5 eggs and as of today it's been 13 days

 

[ronott1]

She is an austrolorp. She is setting 5 eggs and as of today it's been 13 days

She looks like a good Mom too!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

No- I have a cat and a dog that would love them some chicks for a late night snack. Maybe I'll add another heat lamp to the workshop brooder and just leave them out there all the time. Is 3 1/2 weeks too early?

Mine go out as soon as they come out of the hatcher.
Unheated/uninsulated building with one heat lamp in mild weather, a hover with two lamps in winter. It's probably not as cold there. It hit 9 here last night and I have 6 week olds right now that were raise with a broody and no heat. The important thing is acclimatizing. Since yours are out during the day already, they should be OK.





I doubt the humidity would be much of a problem in the bathroom though. I would probably be more concerned about dust but we're all different.

 

[chickydee64]

FINALLY.

Me and this LG...I'm too dang stubborn to just admit I don't want to be defeated by a cheap Styrofoam box

I finally have a consistent temp of 100 at the top of the box, 98 at the wire floor, and my water-wiggler in the middle reads between 98 and 99 consistently.

As the heavens as my witness, I will beat this dang thing!

So, now everyone can soothe my troubled brow over things -- if I set the eggs on the 10th (since I will not be in town on the 11th), if I don't turn them til day 3-4 they'll be okay...if I read the research papers right, the critical days to turn seem to be days 4-7 inclusive. I then will be out of town for early Christmas around the 20th and 21st, to return late 21st, early 22nd, so if they miss a day's turning they should be alright.

I'm not looking for 100% hatch rate. I'd be happy with ONE! LOL!

Hi,
If it allows you to feel anymore confident................All I use are LG's..............have been hatching about 5 years in them.
I have found that once I learned what works for me......I have not had problems and get pretty good hatches......
I never touch the temp now..........expect for a change when you add your eggs......but don't mess with it.it will even itself out.........
I thin your eggs will be fine......

 

[tadpole98]

Figured out why my chickens keep dying. Water heater wasn't working so they had nothing to drink for awhile. I'm so mad at myself! Why didn't I check that??

 

[chiqita]

Oh tadpole I'm so sorry! / hugs to you

 

[Gardeningmama]

Figured out why my chickens keep dying. Water heater wasn't working so they had nothing to drink for awhile. I'm so mad at myself! Why didn't I check that??

Oh, that is terrible.

So sorry...

 

[tadpole98]

Does anyone use a brinsea octagon 40 Eco? If so do you like it?

I use the 20, same thing just holds less eggs.
I've tried out tons of incubators but none have given me the results the brinsea has.bear in mind I also have auto turn and a fan. If I keep the humidity right and start out with the right temp, I can't easily get 100% hatch. Even from shipped eggs.!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Figured out why my chickens keep dying. Water heater wasn't working so they had nothing to drink for awhile. I'm so mad at myself! Why didn't I check that??

What a bummer.
I had a similar issue with an automatic water system. One of the drinkers was plugged and a couple roosters went a couple days without water. I check them every day since.
But now at 10 degrees I'm back to carrying water for the next few months.