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

[kwhites634]

I built a cabinet incubator (thanks for the info specially sally). Test runs are great but having no luck with humidity. Any tips? tried various pan arrangements with wicks. I'very started a cooler hatcher project as well and hope to be full go by the end of January but no luck getting any humidity whatsoever. Doesn't help I heat with wood and it's winter

I also heat with wood, and keep a pot of water on the stove so the heated air isn't so dry. You might give that a try.

 

[BantyChooks]

I totally know what I'd order from them.... Anyone care to lend me 15,000$ or so??

I want a mini barn with a large run done in HWC, with netting and buried edges....

 

[Phage]

Came back from travels with tales of chicken woe -how stinky the chicks are, how they eat so much and that the garage is over run by rats, and how the rooster crows day and night.


DH is not a fan of chickens.


Well there may have been a rat in the garage (there was food all over the floor) but none have been caught in the trap (rat zapper -never fails IF there are rodents present). The garage was stinky, but outside the rooster only crows for about 3 minutes once at dawn and once at dusk so pretty good in my book!!!


PLUS there were 4 eggs in the coop (ayam cemani) and the lone hen has laid an egg every day since I got back so there are 7 ready to go into the Bator!!!


Planning on setting the eggs tomorrow. Seems a waste to set maybe 8 eggs in a cabinet bator.


Now there are now NO CHICKS IN THE GARAGE


The cemani youngsters that went outside 2 weeks ago look really great.

The new chicks that just went outside to the baby coop refuse to go up into the coop space and huddle in the mud outside

They are mostly trader joe chicks - sweet but SO not smart

I only have 8 eggs in the cabinet bator lol

 

[timperkins]

I do that already. Contemplating a humidifier run off a humidistat but was hoping to keep it a tad less complicated...

 

[Pensmaster]

Hey guys & gals Just checking in to say hi to everybody. What a wonderful morning it was... Such a beautiful sky..... Everybody was safe and Bill was able to fix it when he got home from work

Ouch. Glad you were safe. On the drive in tonight the neighbors lost a tree parallel to their new motor home. Completely missed it. So close

 

[timperkins]

I do that already. Contemplating a humidifier run off a humidistat but was hoping to keep it a tad less complicated...

 

[Pensmaster]

You mean these sweet hearts that came today? 5 Ayam Cemani babies Well, technically they're 8 weeks old but still! They've joined some of my other babies around the same age. The bigger black one is Onyx. I hatched him and he's 2 weeks older than the ones that came today.

Sweet. I'm glad they all made it safely.

 

[timperkins]

sorry for the repeat! Still learning on the fly... Has anybody got any input on automatic humidity control good or bad?

 

[Phage]

I built a cabinet incubator (thanks for the info specially sally). Test runs are great but having no luck with humidity. Any tips? tried various pan arrangements with wicks. I'very started a cooler hatcher project as well and hope to be full go by the end of January but no luck getting any humidity whatsoever. Doesn't help I heat with wood and it's winter

What is the humidity and how are you reading it?
Maybe the hygrometer is uncalibrated.
If you have pans of water in there you should be able to get it up. Especially if you place sponges in the water to increase the surface area.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

These are the calmest chicks I've ever met.

Mine are really mellow like that as well. I'm sure it's because we are AWESOME chickie parents...

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I may or may not have loaded my MPC shopping cart with over 20,000$ of stuff before sighing wistfully and closing the tab.....

That's nothing, you should see me putting together a wish list for Greenfire chicks!

(Yes, ok, I've been looking at real estate listings for more land south of San Antonio as well, soooooo...

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Quote: Off to go check that out...

- Ant Farm