Here are a few. These are old pics when I just had this single coop. The coops are now set up like a chicken village lol
Did you get plans for this? Or just make it? I love your idea of the chicken village concept and I might just do that now that I finally have space for it.
For the record...Ray was in the car the whole time we were at your house last night. No random wanderings over here, lol! My guess is hunters!
I took advantage of the snow we got today to look for predators prints around our coops…I was pretty surprised to find the 2 legged type of predator has been on my property and around my coops…Seriously?? I really can NOT imagine walking onto someone's property and just looking around at their stuff…
THIS is the land to the rear of our property and where the footprints came from….now WHERE the heck is this jerk parking???
Quote: I have the Wal-Mart therm/hygro's too, and they are not in sync with the humidity, let me tell you. Getting pretty frustrated right now!
Quote: I've heard putting a sponge or cup of water works. I havent tried this though, so backup would be appreciated.
I don't put cups of water to avoid accidental drowning, but I have put cups with soaked paper towels in them. The last hatch I remember doing where boosting the humidity became an issue (duck eggs at lockdown) I fixed my problem by putting a sanitary napkin (yes, your read that right) directly under the vent hole, I used a straw to direct the water into the sanitary napkin. held the moisture and nobody drowned….worked great.
OMGoodness, I've used the sanitary napkin a.k.a. Maxi Pad too!! For containers that I leave out in the open Ray bends 1/4 inch wire to fit the openings so they don't drown!
WOW! He IS gorgeous!!
Oh, I am so confused! When I sold my last Serama roo the buyer argued that he looked more like a Japanese bantam. I said he was sold to me as a Black Tailed Buff Serama, but he looked just like this(but buff). How the H@!! do you tell the difference?
Quote: The only thing I will add to this is that for the Cinco de Mayo hatch-a-long I decided to throw caution to the wind with humidity. I didn't and couldn't keep it where I would have normally. At the end of the hatch I raised it as much as possible, and had a VERY bad outcome. I think I should have always ensured it was at least at 20-25% and I didn't . Upping it at the "last call" didn't work for me at all. It was my only bad hatch to date, and I still keep kicking myself over it!
Wow!! I go out for the day to pick up my last eggs and do some shopping and I fall 20 pages behind!
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Oh, this does not hold a candle to my awesome stick figure!!! Lol!Just Kidding, Just Kidding!
We have a winner!
The winning post was by tadbole98 on pot 2314. The prize is a dozen Mystery eggs from msladyhawke.
I will set up one more of these contests.
Cheers!
Marans eggs are lost in the mail, no one can find themdmrippy is going to send me new ones. I will be setting 28 trader joes eggs and 8 feed store eggs. This will be my first hatch ever
send me a PM of your roo and ill find out for you!! HAHAFor the record...Ray was in the car the whole time we were at your house last night. No random wanderings over here, lol! My guess is hunters!
I have the Wal-Mart therm/hygro's too, and they are not in sync with the humidity, let me tell you. Getting pretty frustrated right now!
The only thing I will add to this is that for the Cinco de Mayo hatch-a-long I decided to throw caution to the wind with humidity. I didn't and couldn't keep it where I would have normally. At the end of the hatch I raised it as much as possible, and had a VERY bad outcome. I think I should have always ensured it was at least at 20-25% and I didn't . Upping it at the "last call" didn't work for me at all. It was my only bad hatch to date, and I still keep kicking myself over it!
Oh, this does not hold a candle to my awesome stick figure!!! Lol!Just Kidding, Just Kidding!
thanks for that.. im not about to throw caution to the wind but i wont be worried about fluctuations of a few percentages here and there
The hazards of owning an incubator!thats okay! the more the merrier!! im already planning with my boyfriend how im going to expand my coop because i know that my flock is going to grow exponentially once i start getting chicks... Im lucky hes so handy and can make something out of scraps laying around
Mine aren't numbered. I have had my Genesis for a few years. I am referring to the two outermost channels. It will be clear when you see the pictures. Don't worry about the eggs getting cold. At that point the chicks generate/hold enough heat that it isn't a problem.i think thats what im doing this time too! and im going to document everything to see if i need to tweak it
just to be clear, are you referring to the troughs labeled one and two? or the three that are in the center with no numbers?
and i would love to see your set up! i actually have some airline tubing and a turkey baster all ready but i wasnt exactly sure how to set it all up. what im most stressed about is on day 18 i have to candle my eggs, remove my turner, set up my aquarium tubing, and then make sure it is all absolutely perfect cuz i wont be able to fix it after that! im afraid that my eggs will be cold by the time i figure it all out
