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

[kajira]

adorable

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: LOL



wanted to know if he is jigging with fatheads or chubs or what he is doing.

There is a cool straight up jig that we put a live or dead on the end wondered if he ever tried one.
You probably missed his picture of a trench he'd cut in the ice for trolling. Never heard of that one through the ice.
TRENCH!!!!
His description. Evidently done with a chainsaw

lol but their are lures that they make that actually swim in a larger circumference. I was thinking when I saw his little hole, whats he gonna do if he hooks up a bubba??? it wont pull out the hole!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: I am reading the results and am stumped as well, but again they mean nothing to me other than...... DO MORE TESTING!!! uggggg FINALLY going to do a stool sample!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hi all! I posted on here not too long ago that I was thinking of making an incubator from an old metal heater. Well, my awesome, talented DH made my dreams come true yesterday! I now have a wooden cabinet lined with 2 inch thick Styrofoam (with 1/4" vent holes around top, about nine of them) and with a inner box that has an intake fan to pull air in from the bigger box, and blows it out with another fan before a heating element. Got the wafer thermostat hooked up, showed a steady 99-100 degrees all evening! 40% humidity with NO water in the pan! Now, here's my question. The thermometer/hygrometer I am using is a cheap one from Walmart, the kind you just pop a battery in and let it work. The range is showing the high as 102 and the low as like 96, with the temp staying constant. Now, my husband explained to me what all that means, and to only pay attention to how steady the main temp number is. But I would like to buy one that keeps the tenths of a degree and cycles the high and low more often (I think this one keeps the high and low until you reset it or it goes higher or lower). I think it would help me tweek the wafer thermostat more accurately.

Any recommendations on a better thermometer/hygrometer?

HOW sweet!!! got pics?? @10AcreChick

Anyone hooooooome? I'm due to ship eggs this week to a cold region. What do y'all use to keep the eggs warm? Do hot hands get too hot? What lasts longest? Obviously they don't need the warmth leaving from here...

I double box and put a 72 hour heat pack in the outer box, HOWEVER where are they going? you may not need heat at all, just make the timing work in a warm spell, like here its not that cold this week. Make sure the outer box is large enough to pack crumbled paper in to help insulate the inner.

 

[campingshaws]

@Sally Sunshine

 

[10AcreChick]

Hi all! I posted on here not too long ago that I was thinking of making an incubator from an old metal heater. Well, my awesome, talented DH made my dreams come true yesterday! I now have a wooden cabinet lined with 2 inch thick Styrofoam (with 1/4" vent holes around top, about nine of them) and with a inner box that has an intake fan to pull air in from the bigger box, and blows it out with another fan before a heating element. Got the wafer thermostat hooked up, showed a steady 99-100 degrees all evening! 40% humidity with NO water in the pan! Now, here's my question. The thermometer/hygrometer I am using is a cheap one from Walmart, the kind you just pop a battery in and let it work. The range is showing the high as 102 and the low as like 96, with the temp staying constant. Now, my husband explained to me what all that means, and to only pay attention to how steady the main temp number is. But I would like to buy one that keeps the tenths of a degree and cycles the high and low more often (I think this one keeps the high and low until you reset it or it goes higher or lower). I think it would help me tweek the wafer thermostat more accurately.

Any recommendations on a better thermometer/hygrometer?

HOW sweet!!! got pics?? @10AcreChick

At work right now. I am going to take some pics tonight and post them. I am going to start a member page and record my progress. Have a few things to do on it yet, and I need to find a way to put the thermostat control to the outside of the box so I can adjust it without opening it. Going to be tricky, the walls are 3 inches thick almost! But my husband is very talented. Also, I might see if he can rig up a computer battery backup my aunt has to it so it won't lose power if our electric company does.

So...any advice on a better digital thermometer, @Sally Sunshine ? I don't think I want to do a wet bulb, but one that is hygrometer/thermometer with tenths of degree showing so I can exact it more.

I am so excited!!!

 

[10AcreChick]

Uh...I didn't post that quote right. Can anyone explain how I pull a single quote from someone's post and reply to it? I was trying to pull only one of her quotes, and messed it up.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Well, I made the decision to steal my broody's two babies. They both look like pure, blue silkies to me and I need more blues so I'm raising these ones inside just to make sure nothing happens to them. She still has two eggs yet to hatch and I gave her one that I had in here on lockdown. What do you guys think? Do they look like pure silkie babies to you? Both have 5 toes, dark and feathered feet/legs, black beaks. Mama is a splash silkie. Possible daddys are Blue silkie, CCL, BCM, lavender ameraucana, and RIR. Less possible daddys (younger boys) silver welbar, rir x CCL.

 

[BantyChooks]

Maple is now panting occasionally.... I don't think she's going to make it.

 

[kajira]

Maple is panting occasionally now.... I don't think she's going to make it.

I'm sorry