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

[Lazy Farmer]

Putting in a firebreak already. While waiting on chicks to hatch.

I'm on a second day of hatching.. Very successful. Very pleased right now. I wish you good fortune as well!

 

[BullChick]

omg.. I just came to this thread and didn't read that was you posting "Dishwasher".. but when I read @Pensmaster I laughed so hard because I thought it was @mlm Mike posting this.. My head hurts now.
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Mike will understand.. he programmed my thoughts!

Know what is funnier? I thought it was Mike too.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

That and my idiot tolerance has lowered significantly

Then I should hide from you?

Day 18 for the broody and her eggs. I'm hoping they're viable, it's gotten fairly cold & I've never tried to let anything brood in these nest boxes before.

The dog is overweight, and had to be put on leave.

One out 2 pipped 3 still need to start

cool beans!

Hey there!! NIce AVY!!! How are you and the kritters? How did your kidding season go?

hey right back at cha Sally.. We buried our last Buck deep into the Garden last Fall-ish. No kidding this year.. tomatoes are beautiful but taste bitter sweet.
We have been scouring for prospects. When we find one reasonable and advantageously priced, the living conditions of the farms we visit are ______, I'll leave it at that, fill in the blank.
Glad to see your avatar popping up the last couple days. I've got 3 ovens running right now and ordered a part for my broken 4th. I ordered a digital control for a LG 9300 and they shipped me the heating unit.. That was nice they didn't charge me but... their mistake is my loss. I'm selling chicks faster than I can hatch them and now I'm waiting for the controller AGAIN

. Direct from LG btw. Instead of little giant their initials stand for "learn grammar" when reading orders.
I have the second day of a really good hatch going on. My brooder looks like a nest of rats!
AGAIN.. great to see you pop back in.. TYL.

 

[kajira]

my dishwasher doesn't work either, but that's because it's wrapped in plastic and not plugged in or plumbed yet.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Maybe poor insulation in my Hova Bators is the reason for the variance in temps for both of them, even with them completely closed up for days at a time; viewing windows let me check everything w/o popping the top. I always thought the variance was 'cause the thermostat is so touchy. Being 100% styrofoam, & fairly thick, at that, I'd think they'd be sufficiently insulated.

With my styro ovens, it's the big viewing windows that are the source of temp variations. Last season I had a couple early feathered rats running around thinking they were in a bowling alley, so I placed a couple cardboard box flaps cut perfect to the size of the plex glass widows, in an attempt to cut out light to calm them down. My temp shot up like a rocket. Had to open the lid for a couple minutes. Much of my success comes from stabilizing the room temperature. Grandson helped ruin my Easter Hatch.. oh well.
BTW.. HEY WHITES!

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I’ve found that putting a folded towel under the styrofoam incubator that the temps were better kept.

lol, I keep a towel under both of my LG's because they leak..

 

[Pensmaster]

lol, I keep a towel under both of my LG's because they leak..

That’s the original reason I started the towels. But they did better with them so I continued even when we put them in plastic tables. The plastic table are not insulated

3 out 1 pipping.
2 to start yet.

 

[kwhites634]

With my styro ovens, it's the big viewing windows that are the source of temp variations. Last season I had a couple early feathered rats running around thinking they were in a bowling alley, so I placed a couple cardboard box flaps cut perfect to the size of the plex glass widows, in an attempt to cut out light to calm them down. My temp shot up like a rocket. Had to open the lid for a couple minutes. Much of my success comes from stabilizing the room temperature. Grandson helped ruin my Easter Hatch.. oh well.
BTW.. HEY WHITES!

Kinda tough to stabilize room temp here. If I close the door the room temp is in the high 50s. If I leave the door open the room temp eventually matches whatever the temp in the rest of the basement is, which depends on how hard the stove's working.

 

[Pensmaster]

4 out 1 working on it and 1 not started yet. Getting there.

 

[BullChick]

I just unplugged the incubator. It’s just wasting electricity. I can’t deny the truth. The eggs aren’t developing.