California - Northern

[casportpony]

Lol, my cat raises the humidity in the Janoel 48 when she sleeps on it an covers the air holes.

-Kathy

haha, naughty kitty!

I don't know much about malposition but hatching is a race to get out of the egg before the o2 goes away. So airflow and o2raito in the incubator are huge. I think that's why cabinets can have better hatches lots of fresh air with high o2 content.

there is a gal on the Muscovy thread that uses homemade incubators and gets amazing hatches on EVERYTHING! She hatches muscovies, parrots, emus and well everything . She swears the homemade has better o2 . Not sure percentages but I think she gets 80-100, if I remember. I believe 80 may actually be too low. She can hatch a rock in those babies!!

Is that Yinepu?

-Kathy

 

[ronott1]

haha, naughty kitty!
there is a gal on the Muscovy thread that uses homemade incubators and gets amazing hatches on EVERYTHING! She hatches muscovies, parrots, emus and well everything . She swears the homemade has better o2 . Not sure percentages but I think she gets 80-100, if I remember. I believe 80 may actually be too low. She can hatch a rock in those babies!!

The Brinsea Octagon 40 has 4 fans. It has very good ventilation.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

That's great! Did they all go to the same person?

no a bunch to someone that wants to eat them then had 2 people come from Nevada that breed crele. they took 3 of my young roosters

I have feathers everywhere, it looks like I've been plucking in the chicken yard.


It has been getting quieter around here too. In the last couple of weeks I've sold about thirty laying hens and a couple of roos, gave away five roosters, sent 27 roosters to my person that buys birds for the freezer and yesterday took 35 small/bantam roosters and two gimpy pullets to the auction.

I STILL hear crowing constantly, but it's certainly quieter.

I need to do one more sort through my breeding pens (who needs ten hens of the same breed???) and we will be down to 75ish birds from the high of around 500 we had.

Now I'm not counting the 50 growouts, the thirty chicks that hatched over the weekend, the dozen eggs on lockdown or the 30ish on the counter that DH wants set. Those don't count, you always need "up and coming" birds.

nice Deb

I have heard about cats messing up a hatch before.

Bad Kittie!

been there

 

[Hangtown Farms]

chicken assortment
black Penedesenca
white Pmpordanesa
crele olive egger
splash bantam Ameraucana
brown red bantam Ameraucana

 

[Happy Chooks]

I'm afraid to count mine!

-Kathy

Me too, so I'm not gonna count them. And I still have broodies hatching chicks too!

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Lol, my cat raises the humidity in the Janoel 48 when she sleeps on it an covers the air holes.

-Kathy

How well does the Janoel 48 work?

 

[caychris]

Yeah 2 foster buffs down.

 

[PetRock]

I'm afraid to count mine!

-Kathy

I definitely don't count mine!!!

 

[PetRock]

Yeah 2 foster buffs down.

Are you sure you don't want this cute little Pita Pinta pullet now that you are down 2 chicks???

 

[caychris]

Are you sure you don't want this cute little Pita Pinta pullet now that you are down 2 chicks??

Want but unless I want to sleep in the coop I can't have.