EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Akrnaf2]

I strike the jackpot!
DW( she is an Electronic practical engeenr) work received a new company to represent, and they have this

Highly accurate and highly calibrated temp and hygro meter (0.01C and 0.01%!), which is part of an evaluation bord of a bigger system.

Guess what I am going to use it for?

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I strike the jackpot!
DW( she is an Electronic practical engeenr) work received a new company to represent, and they have this



Highly accurate and highly calibrated temp and hygro meter (0.01C and 0.01%!), which is part of an evaluation bord of a bigger system.

Guess what I am going to use it for?

sharing with us over in the US?

 

[Akrnaf2]

She gave me the "eye" when I asked from her a number of them, I hope she will soften if yes no problem there!

I made a mistake
It is fully calibrated
0.3C
And 2% of accuracy!

 

[BantyChooks]

I strike the jackpot!
DW( she is an Electronic practical engeenr) work received a new company to represent, and they have this

Highly accurate and highly calibrated temp and hygro meter (0.01C and 0.01%!), which is part of an evaluation bord of a bigger system.

Guess what I am going to use it for?

Sending it to ME??

(Well, if I had to REALLY guess, I'd say you're gonna use it in your own bator )

 

[DwayneNLiz]

She gave me the "eye" when I asked from her a number of them, I hope she will soften if yes no problem there!

I made a mistake
It is fully calibrated
0.3C
And 2% of accuracy!

LOL

They are available in the US and the price isnt terrible, about $30 on one site i found

 

[BullChick]

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.

Yeah I know, firing up the Brinsea is tempting but it's 10 degrees here this morning and brooding chicks in the house with 5 cats roaming around isn't the easiest thing to do. I promised DH I'd wait till it was warm enough to set up the stock tank in our shop as a brooder. That means March here since the shop is unheated. Yeah, it's tough. I did a dry run with it when it arrived and it was holding the temp at 99.5 confirmed. I have to check it with the humidity monitory I just picked up on fleaBay but I'm not expecting a problem with that.

@Sally Sunshine
 officially I'm a Bex

You just need a heat lamp in one corner of the stock tank. I totally think you should hatch now!

 

[BantyChooks]

LOL

They are available in the US and the price isnt terrible, about $30 on one site i found

Nice!

 

[microchick]

You just need a heat lamp in one corner of the stock tank. I totally think you should hatch now!

Well yeah, I think so too but I really do enjoy having my husband talking to me!

 

[microchick]

Besides, I only have pullets laying right now and I'm about ready to start squeezing eggs out of my mature hens. My young cockerels are wanting to make sure the eggs they lay are fertile but the hens will have nothing to do with them right now. I really don't want to set the pullet eggs as they are quite small.

Last fall an Amish neighbor gave me 8 OEGB cross (with what he doesn't know but for sure one rooster was a bantam cochin) eggs to stick under my first time broody hen just for something different. 4 out of 5 chicks survived 4 died in shell mainly because my bird brained broody crapped all over them before I caught that she wasn't getting off the nest. Later the neighbor told me that they butchered the Cochin rooster

for meat and 'ya know, that bird didn't have any meat on it at all!' quote!

I managed not to stand there gaping at him in disbelief and told my husband that I had to give those people a start of meat birds because they were eating ornamental chickens.

So I'm waiting for my girls to start to lay again and waiting for the roosters to get the job done with them so I can hatch 8 chicks in March to give to them.

THEN! Bex wants bantams! I have a source for splash Cochin eggs buy what I really would like to find is somebody nearby with pure bred OEGBs. Eggs will either go in the 'bator or under a broody, whichever comes first.

 

[ocap]

@ChickenCanoe

Isn't the Harley plant up near you?


yes, we took the tour and the workers were having lunch so every machine was shut down