California - Northern

[PairOFWings]

Yay for Northern California! Im in the Santa Cruz Mountains! <3

 

[ronott1]

Yay for Northern California! Im in the Santa Cruz Mountains! <3

It is great to have you posting here!

What Breeds of chickens do you have?

 

[Audio51]

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Wow!. The seller says she is happy with keeping them so would not sell for less than $8 each. I have more of her eggs in the incubator ans she is going to bring more up to set tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback everyone!

 

[chiqita]

Anyone ever use a redwood incubator?  Are they easy to fix if something isn't working?  Here is one that looks interesting. 


http://monterey.craigslist.org/grd/4420607018.html

Just realized it was listed 17 days ago so probably not available.

Those I can tell you about! We retrofitted the humidair a little at a time and mario is putting in a digital humidity system now for using it as a hatcher. Mine was SO huge it had humidity issues even with them holding humidity so well. I can give you more details on what we did . I think it ended up being not as cheap as youd think in the long run but fun! It did not have as good a start rate as the magic dicky however. I think modern digital has finally gotten better then old redwood in the last few years. But who knows what I will think in a few weeks!

You should see more incubators around now as prime chick season is over.

Had a good hatch last night! Only 5 eggs left to go

Nice! So many babies!

Yay for Northern California! Im in the Santa Cruz Mountains! <3

Welcome!

 

[PairOFWings]

It is great to have you posting here!

What Breeds of chickens do you have?

Thank you for the welcome! I love this community already!

I just picked up my babies on Saturday and they are a week old today.. I was able to get 2 Ameraucanas and 2 Wyandottes.. fingers crossed that I have all hens! The idea of culling is causing me some anxiety. >.<

 

[ronott1]

Had a good hatch last night! Only 5 eggs left to go

That is a nice full incubator!

 

[PetRock]

Yay for Northern California! Im in the Santa Cruz Mountains! <3

My DH works for UC Santa Cruz but we live in the East Bay area. He has a tiny (emphasis on tiny) studio apartment close to campus and comes home on Friday afternoon.

 

[TheKeeper]

Had a good hatch last night! Only 5 eggs left to go

That is one Hatcher full o' Happiness! Congrats!

 

[PetRock]

No where the trays go into the cabinet. A incubator has all the trays on a metal frame and Tilts all the trays on the frame. Setting up a motor for that would not be a horrible job but if you need the metal frame anyway just buy the whole set. If you dont need the frame it could even be set up to do it by hand outside fairly easily without fussing with a motor or opening up.

Speaking of all the chicken! Chores I think I need to treat everyone for cocci. I have what I think is a sympomatic silkie (hard to see a puffed up silkie) . Have not heard From davis so not sure if that is it but with corid better safe then sorry. Here is the kicker however.

I can't treat the main coop with the water. They drink from a lot of other places like the duck pond. Can I hand dose with liquid corid? If so how much? It seems like I would have more control that way.

I'm trying to talk George into coming to Karen's chicken party 5/18. Maybe he can talk to Mario about retrofitting our hatcher. My hatcher does not have the metal frame. I has metal on the sides that hold the sides of the removable metal trays. We made a tray insert that I pushed to roll the eggs but it did not work well so it's back to the drawing board for us. Hand turning by raising the end of the tray up and down is working okay but if I'm gone for the day it only happens in the AM and the PM.

 

[AlpineButterfly]

Sorry Debi..............I have to treat for mites here. 2 of my roosters have leg mites so everyone will get treated I guess. I think Aaron is coming today so I will put him to work with me.

Don't you hate those treat all the birds at one time kind of chores?!!! What do you use for leg mites? Mine have never had them but I'm sure the day is coming.

Oh, I was just wondering about leg mites. What are the symptoms and what do you do to treat them? Do they just affect the legs? Or do they migrate?