California - Northern

[chickee]

Does anyone have chicks for sale? Looking for colored egg layers, blue green olive etc. thank u

I have EE chicks due to hatch this Friday

They will be the same combo of mixed colored Ameraucanas (buff x blue wheaten and buff/wheaten x blue wheaten) as the ones I just sold to Jason and Scarlett. They will lay turquoise (blue green) and blue eggs.

 

[CALI CHICK]

Crested CHOCOLATE Chicks... I wish I knew how I made these pullets... These pullets were hatch from my free range flock.
These picture DO NOT do them justice. They are really beautiful little girls

They are beautiful. They have such pretty eyes and faces that remind me of Cheryl's Lavander Marans a little.

 

[lawatt]

any suggestions on how many eggs to put under a first-time broody? she's a basque hen, definitely LF but not a gigantic breed, my marans and silver-penciled plymouth rocks are all a bit bigger than her.

thanks in advance!

 

[thedollysmama]

All:
I have a multipurpose barn, it's my hatchery during the good weather and bunny barn year around. I have a three tiered stacking rabbit cage that has been transmogrified into a brooder that sits near the main door. I always announce myself when I am going in, so as not to scare the bunnies, but my batch if buttercup chicks, who are at the top of the stacker, go crazy. What the heck?! None if the others go as crazy and I am seriously considering what to do (move them?). Someone is going to get smushed in the stampede. Ideas?

Karen in Oroville

 

[Ali707]

I just got the Genesis 1588 and wish that I had gotten a Brinsea! I was thinking about the Octagon 20 early this morning then thought why not the 40?! After looking at them, I decided that what I really want is the 190! Then I saw your post!

Well I ALSO got the Genesis 1588 and wish too that I had gotten a Brinsea. I didn't do TOO much fiddling with it for hatching the quail, but out of 23 possibly developing eggs, 15-16 hatched. They move too darn fast for me to get an accurate count.

The temp was stable and it matched my spot check pretty accurately. The humidity seemed okay too and operated within the range of what the manual said it should. However, I didn't use anything else to check it. On the other hand the temperature flucuations are very dependent on the room temperature. It seems like the Brinsea holds steady no matter the outside temp. Is that an inaccurate observation?

As I was hatching I was watching others posts about their Brinsea and it just seemed their hatches were better and it holds the temp stable.

..... and some more chickens! These are a friends' birds. I call their rooster, "The Fonz". He makes this cluck as if he's saying, "hey, hey...." when he's keeping an eye on his ladies. I think he is a Delaware?



The Fonz


Ehhhhhhhh!

I did get the Brinsea Ecoglow50, and the transformer thingy (technical term) gets REALLY hot. I have heard others say their Eco 50's get hot in spots on the heating surface and mine does too, but I figure the chicks are smart enough to move away from it. However the electrical cord power pack/adapter thingy (yes I said thingy again) is HOT. It really concerns me how hot it gets. I had the GQF/incubator power cord running for the last 25 days and it is 1/4 as hot as this one. It seems odd to me that it runs that hot.

 

[Nikon]

I have EE chicks due to hatch this Friday

They will be the same combo of mixed colored Ameraucanas (buff x blue wheaten and buff/wheaten x blue wheaten) as the ones I just sold to Jason and Scarlett. They will lay turquoise (blue green) and blue eggs.

Ah don't tell me that. Must....not....buy...more....chickens! Almost came home with some of miss Molly's frizzle Cochins. Chicks are like shoes! So many but you love them all!

 

[ronott1]

All:
I have a multipurpose barn, it's my hatchery during the good weather and bunny barn year around. I have a three tiered stacking rabbit cage that has been transmogrified into a brooder that sits near the main door. I always announce myself when I am going in, so as not to scare the bunnies, but my batch if buttercup chicks, who are at the top of the stacker, go crazy. What the heck?! None if the others go as crazy and I am seriously considering what to do (move them?). Someone is going to get smushed in the stampede. Ideas?

Karen in Oroville

Hi Karen!

Some breeds seem to be more flighty for me. I do not have buttercup chicks but the worst so far were Blue egg layers. They were under a red light and they liked to jump up into it when I opened the garage door. They are much calmer now in the chicken hutch. They have an eco glow 20 there.

Maybe give them some treats each day?

 

[PetRock]

Well I ALSO got the Genesis 1588 and wish too that I had gotten a Brinsea. I didn't do TOO much fiddling with it for hatching the quail, but out of 23 possibly developing eggs, 15-16 hatched. They move too darn fast for me to get an accurate count.

The temp was stable and it matched my spot check pretty accurately. The humidity seemed okay too and operated within the range of what the manual said it should. However, I didn't use anything else to check it. On the other hand the temperature flucuations are very dependent on the room temperature. It seems like the Brinsea holds steady no matter the outside temp. Is that an inaccurate observation?

As I was hatching I was watching others posts about their Brinsea and it just seemed their hatches were better and it holds the temp stable.

My Genesis is holding steady and fairly accurate compared to my separate thermometer but the humidity reads much lower than my hygrometer. I'm crossing my fingers that the eggs hatch! I was so excited to get them started that I didn't fiddle with the incubator before loading them in. I just unpacked it, let it run for a couple of hours, and loaded in the eggs. In addition to being the first time in a new incubator, I am doing a staggered hatch with chicken eggs and the free quail eggs that were included with the incubator. The quail eggs arrived after the incubator and I had already put the chicken eggs in. So, I have the chicken eggs in locked down in egg trays inside a Costco grape container. The quail eggs are still in the operating turner. I'm trying to keep the humidity at around 60% so it's going to be high for the quail for the rest of their incubation. I started with 10 chicken eggs from chiqita and 8 went into lock down (1 blood ring at 10 days and 1 early quitter). I don't remember how many quail eggs we started with but there were over 30. We candled them last night at day 15 and there were 25 developing and the rest were totally clear (infertile?).

 

[ronott1]

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Happy hatching wishes!

 

[tommysgirl]

I am a wreck over my impending hatch. I just don't want to mess up and bake anyone. I wanted to incubate and hatch during the waxing moon because the Old Farmers Almanac says it's the best time and since I am doing this with shipped eggs I figure it couldn't hurt . Full moon is the 27th I am going to set on the 6th. I won't be home the1st-4th so want to iron out all kinks this week but the bator is in my daughters' room and they are home for Easter this week. Therefore, the conditions in that room are not what they will be during incubation. Hoping that I have got things close enough to right to pull it off.

Re the plugs. Have any of you experienced hatchaholics used them to regulate temp like Renee talks about in her "Cheat Sheet" I have had mine out the whole time I have been fiddling with the LG.

I think this may be my only time using an incubator. I am getting Speckled Sussex, Easter Eggers, and Partridge Rock chicks and hope to pick up a couple of Kim's Dorking culls later in the year so

I should get a couple of broodies shouldn't I???....My hatch will include some Dorking eggs too as well as a bunch of unknown "hen's choice" coolness. I think I may not have the "attention to detail" gene that broody hens do.