California - Northern

[lawatt]

home again! and Daisy Jr #2 (a sibling hatched several weeks ago) has hatched!!!!

quite loud and healthy-sounding!

but the isbar eggs are quiet in contrast -- still just the one pip, and it's progressed a teeny bit to actually having what looks like a hole in both membranes, but that's all -- and none of the other 11 eggs show so much as a crack. here's the one, i can see movement inside so it's still working:

hoping hoping hoping to at least manage to hatch two chicks, the one Daisy Jr. would be lonesome all by itself!

 

[chicksnthestiks]

Glad Daisy jr. hatched out, now I can go to sleep.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Gotta jump in with a question, haven't had the time to read, forgive me for butting in. I'm getting ready to hatch a couple more times before winter and when I plugged in the Brinsea Octogon 20 w/advanced humidity pump, the humidity pump just keeps turning and turning and the humidity is only at 28% (trying to get it to 35%).

I have eggs ready to go but can't set them until this humidity pump stops wigging out! I unplugged it, waited a minute, plugged it back in and it's still turning non-stop. Anyone?

 

[BCollie]

Our coop is almost completely finished! I mean, it was 90% done when they moved into it at a couple months old or so, but we didn't put in the nest boxes until yesterday. We are doing a communal nest box but if they don't like it, I can easily put in dividers. It hangs off the back of the coop...Now we just need to add trim and paint it all.

I have 7 hens, but the coop is built for 8. I'm planning on selling a couple of my hens and hatching out babies in the spring, if I get a broody hen(I have Andalusians, Light Brahmas, and Speckled Sussex)

But what do I use as bedding inside the nest box? What do you guys prefer?

 

[alibra]

I use shavings, like you use in horse stalls. A big bag will last quite a while and they're nice and absorbent and clean

 

[BCollie]

"It's behind me, isn't it?"



"It's got my ear, it's got my ear!!"

 

[BCollie]

I use shavings, like you use in horse stalls. A big bag will last quite a while and they're nice and absorbent and clean

So like the same stuff I use in the coop?(Eco Flake, I think it's called...I don't remember. Eco something.)

 

[ronott1]

Gotta jump in with a question, haven't had the time to read, forgive me for butting in. I'm getting ready to hatch a couple more times before winter and when I plugged in the Brinsea Octogon 20 w/advanced humidity pump, the humidity pump just keeps turning and turning and the humidity is only at 28% (trying to get it to 35%).

I have eggs ready to go but can't set them until this humidity pump stops wigging out! I unplugged it, waited a minute, plugged it back in and it's still turning non-stop. Anyone?

I had a problem with the hose that goes around the pump--it goes flat with wear and will not move the water to the end of the hose. I replaced it but then had trouble getting the hose wrapped in the correct direction. When the water finally started coming out of the end of the hose, the humidity went up and the pump stopped spinning.

I will probably have to change the hose at the pump again next time I hatch.

 

[lawatt]

up again here, Daisy Jr. is bouncing around in the incubator among the not-doing-anything eggs, the ONE and only pipped isbar egg hasn't made much progress outwardly from last night, but is definitely still moving around a lot inside the egg. continuing to watch & hope that it can figure out how to get unzipped!

 

[PetRock]

Our coop is almost completely finished! I mean, it was 90% done when they moved into it at a couple months old or so, but we didn't put in the nest boxes until yesterday. We are doing a communal nest box but if they don't like it, I can easily put in dividers. It hangs off the back of the coop...Now we just need to add trim and paint it all.

I have 7 hens, but the coop is built for 8. I'm planning on selling a couple of my hens and hatching out babies in the spring, if I get a broody hen(I have Andalusians, Light Brahmas, and Speckled Sussex)

But what do I use as bedding inside the nest box? What do you guys prefer?

I use pine shavings in the nest boxes. I sure wish that this product was available in the US. It looks like it might be a good alternative to pine shavings.

http://hempflax.com/en/products/hempflax-products-for-the-equestrian-sector/hemparade-bedding