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

[melbah]

Thank you! Maybe I'll lower to 99 on day 19 and 98.5 on day 20. That's not as low as the article recommended, but I could see how it goes.

 

[aliciaplus3]

Nope just got off the phone and my poultry dealer is out of town for the week...... dang

 

[BantyChooks]

Thank you! Maybe I'll lower to 99 on day 19 and 98.5 on day 20. That's not as low as the article recommended, but I could see how it goes.

I found that I tended to have rapid hatches when I left it at 99.5--100, which led to more open/raw navels---and those are always a tad disconcerting. So, I like the slower hatches for that reason too.

 

[kwhites634]

Not that I've seen.

I wonder why we do it, then. Must be some good reason for it.

 

[BantyChooks]

I wonder why we do it, then. Must be some good reason for it.

Keep reading; I posted a link.

 

[kwhites634]

Keep reading; I posted a link.

Interesting, and makes perfect sense when you understand the "why" of it.

 

[BullChick]

I’ve considered it. I apparently have to threaten the manager’s life to get the panels. I’ve been told repeatedly at various places that they don’t sell them. Of course by guys that don’t know their job (including a feedstore owner’s gs being groomed to take over). According to the TSC website, they do have the panels after all. I looked last week. I just have to figure it all out.

 

[kwhites634]

Interesting, and makes perfect sense when you understand the "why" of it.

The temp setting on my HB is so touchy, though; don't know that I could change it 1/2 a degree at a time.

 

[kwhites634]

I’ve considered it. I apparently have to threaten the manager’s life to get the panels. I’ve been told repeatedly at various places that they don’t sell them. Of course by guys that don’t know their job (including a feedstore owner’s gs being groomed to take over). According to the TSC website, they do have the panels after all. I looked last week. I just have to figure it all out.

I got my 1st ones from Southern States Co-op, but I'm not sure you have them there. Most recently I've gotten them from TSC, no problem.
The one I'm building for a greenhouse will be at the base of a foundation wall, so I'll be able to use the wall to help hold one edge in place while I secure the other.

 

[kwhites634]

Didn't get off with no storm damage, after all. On the way out to get a chain saw to cut up a Pine of the neighbor's that had fallen across our lane, I saw where the lid on a chest freezer had been blown all the way past the normal range of travel, bending some sheet metal. Don't know if it'll seal properly now. Fortunately, it's the one that we thought had died in August, then discovered it hadn't reset after a power outage a week earlier while we were in WI. We replaced it, but I was going to use it to keep venison in.