California - Northern

[PetRock]

Beautiful eggs PetRock!

Thank you, Shantih and Kelly! I love beautiful eggs but I love beautiful chicks more!

 

[PetRock]

Now, look at how many eggs came out of this box !
It was the Mary Poppins box of eggs! Chiquita you banana I think your amazing. Only a lilt quail egg cracked. Unbelievable !


Someone a while back mentioned a few day process they use prior to loading into the incubator? I usually allow room temps then load but my shipped hatched rates are phooey . Anyone care to give me their two cents is welcome.

How fun!!!

 

[chiqita]

Yay! I was worried it might have been too tight.

I will now eat a cermel in your honor!

The more I look at your picture flowers the more I think why do my picturs of my marans eggs never look like that? Lol.

I sent you a interedting mix to try and hatch together. Should keep ya busy!

 

[PetRock]

Can someone please let me know about these:

Questions on the Genesis Hovabator:
I see the digital thermostat and humidity reading in the pic.
Does it ACTUALLY add water with a pump like the Brinsea. I'm assuming not, but a girl can wish, right?
Does it have that pain in the read twist temp nob like the old hovabators. I hated that thing. the slightest touch and I got temp spikes.
Lastly: Is it plastic or styrofoam? The pic looks like plastic, i know the original ones are styrofoam.

On the dickey:
The humidity system in the 5 gallon bucket: Does that add as needed as well?

I bought a length of clear aquarium tubing that I stick through the big vent hole on the top then down through the screen into the appropriate well in the bottom tray. I then add water using a large syringe. I use one of those kitchen syringes that are made to inject butter, etc. under the skin of poultry. The needle come off and the end of the syringe fits perfectly into the tubing. My Genesis hold steady on humidity for the first 10-12 days and then I usually have to add 2 or 3 syringe fulls of water every day or two. I have had it for almost a year and through all the hatches I have done it has been really accurate with both temps and humidity except for the weird temp spike the other day. Still don't know what caused that but it is behaving now.

 

[chiqita]

someone go get these hens! near sac.. partrige SEXED SILKIES.

http://sacramento.craigslist.org/grd/4342731354.html
Ok carry on...

 

[EZFarms]

Im happy just candled my eggs and i can see the embryos moving the blue egg i cant see in but the other two i can see the embryo moving and now im happy lol

 

[Audio51]

Im happy just candled my eggs and i can see the embryos moving

the blue egg i cant see in but the other two i can see the embryo moving and now im happy lol

 

[EZFarms]

Now they just need to keep growing :3 everyone wish me luck for hatching

 

[WendyJeepchick]

Nice eggs!

I hope you have a great hatch!

I have Delawares hatching next friday, then UofA Blues and Olive Eggers the Friday after that. I set more Delawares and SG Dorkings this morning.

I am stagger hatching now!

Oh darn-it, all if you that are hatching all of the chicks that I want!!!

And now, thanks to seeing Karen's beautiful
Olive eggs...I've got to have some of those too!

 

[ronott1]

Oh darn-it, all if you that are hatching all of the chicks that I want!!!

And now, thanks to seeing Karen's beautiful
Olive eggs...I've got to have some of those too!

Hopefully by the end of summer there will be some culls. The Delawares are very nice too! The are the ones recreated by Kathyinmo.