California - Northern

[chiqita]

Food, water, enclosed privacy and bedding ... Does this look adequate?

They will get savings all in that food can you put it on a brick? Or pull them out frequently
Shaving s not savings **** autocorrect

 

[HighNDryFarm]

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Thanks! Yes, they gave me the code when I asked if they had any discounted units and told me it was also on sale (which I had already seen). So maybe the units on Amazon are less because they don't include the metal rails and foam inserts.

So do I really need the humidity pump for our area or is it a must to make it a "set it and forget it" incubator?

It depends on if you are dry incubating. I filled up the water tank two hatches ago and have not touched it since. It is about half empty now so I suppose I will have to fill it up sometime in the next couple of weeks or so.

Ummm, I've only incubated once and it was in a Little Giant. I've used broodies to get chicks ever since! SOOOO, what is dry incubating? What water tank did you fill up? The one in the incubator itself or from the humidity pump thingy???

 

[zooweemama]

They will get savings all in that food can you put it on a brick? Or pull them out frequently
Shaving s not savings **** autocorrect

Yes the shavings are a nuisance but we pull them out. We check on them about 6 times a day at least. We top off the water and pull out any shavings. If all looks fine we just walk away though. I don't want to stress her out. If I put it on a brick the chicks are too short to reach in. It becomes taller than they are. Soon it won't be like that though. Fast growing little buggers.

 

[gryeyes]

It's snowing! Really snowing, not just faking me out with flakes that don't stick.

It's so beautiful!

 

[ronott1]

Anyone here use Poultry Protector with any success? Just read about it today...

Yes, I use it instead of sevin.

 

[ronott1]

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Thanks! Yes, they gave me the code when I asked if they had any discounted units and told me it was also on sale (which I had already seen). So maybe the units on Amazon are less because they don't include the metal rails and foam inserts.

So do I really need the humidity pump for our area or is it a must to make it a "set it and forget it" incubator?

It depends on if you are dry incubating. I filled up the water tank two hatches ago and have not touched it since. It is about half empty now so I suppose I will have to fill it up sometime in the next couple of weeks or so.

Ummm, I've only incubated once and it was in a Little Giant. I've used broodies to get chicks ever since! SOOOO, what is dry incubating? What water tank did you fill up? The one in the incubator itself or from the humidity pump thingy???
I incubate at 40% and for the last two hatches it was perfect. I am using the humidity pump. It has a tank and a hose the moves water to a paper thing in the incubator the disperses the moisture.

Happy Chooks does not add any water at all until lockdown, which for me would be about 15% humidity. In the past when I went that low the chicks did not absorb the yolk--symptom of too low of humidity.

Get the humidity pump if you want to only open up the incubator to candle and add more eggs.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

It's snowing! Really snowing, not just faking me out with flakes that don't stick.

It's so beautiful!

So exciting! We were getting snow in town too and now they're running tornado warnings across the screen! We live on a bluff overlooking the valley and watched the last one go by, it was quit an experience. I was bringing home chicks and ran out to the barn to put them in the brooder and couldn't get back to the house for 45 minutes while the tornado passed. Wind, rain, hail, lightening, thunder....very scary!!!! My husband was in the house videoing the tornado and answering the phone while everyone called to see if we were OK....when I got back in the house I was like "did you miss me? Wonder if I was OK?" LOL

I do love to watch snow fall. Do you have a nice red to sip on while you watch?

 

[capayvalleychick]

Anyone here use Poultry Protector with any success? Just read about it today...

It didn't work when I used it on my birds.

So exciting! We were getting snow in town too and now they're running tornado warnings across the screen! We live on a bluff overlooking the valley and watched the last one go by, it was quit an experience.

That one, a couple years ago, took out the garage & barn at my grandson's house on Table Mountain Rd.

Sun is out here, but it's very cold & windy.

Thanks to those who gave advice on my brooding set up.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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It's snowing! Really snowing, not just faking me out with flakes that don't stick.

It's so beautiful!

We've been getting snow too.


Quote: Eeek, tornado's.

 

[Deerling]

Deerling, I will have extra Delawares. I'm trying to breed them larger and closer to the Standard. I'm only keeping a few of the best. The culls are fine for backyard layers, just not good enough for breeding to show. I have one hen who was born last year. She's way too narrow. I shouldn't have kept her, but she's so friendly. She's always flying out of her run and coming to see what I'm doing. She did it tonight, came wandering over when I was feeding the cows, like whatcha doing? I'm trying to be professional and not get attached, but she's a cutie. It would be nice to find her a pet home.
I finally updated my chicken webpage. I can't get the text to come out right and I still need to fix the links, but here it is:
http://www.starroseranch.com/chickens.html

Ooh, that is so cool! We definitely won't be ready for any for a while (no coop yet), but I would love to add some to my flock eventually. She sure sounds like a sweetheart.

Question, do you know anyone who sells heritage breeds up in Oregon between Eugene and Medford? My Aunt sells eggs and she wants to use heritage birds. She lost about 20 hens and 5 roos in one night a year ago. They have a new coop now but are still working on rebuilding their flock. The only heritage hatching eggs she could find locally were Delawares, but for whatever reason she was unhappy with the transaction. She says "technology doesn't like her" and doesn't use the computer much so I told her I'd look around for her.