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

[BantyChooks]

Doble Bubble ?

Bubble ther is 2 of you?

Well, there was, til the other Bubbles popped

It's amaze me every time!
They are seating together on the same bench and "talk" to each other with the phone instead talking each other!

It just boggles the mind.

 

[daxigait]

lol

WHAT YOU GET????

what the heck, you get four ovates and I posted the same in dry form and got notta lmao  yer special!!
May I ask how long this actually is active since its wet form? 
I need it to last thats why I use the powder and they always dust bath in shavings so it works two fold with the powder. 

hello Michael

Dang they are so dang sexy!!!

I am unsure. The vet that started the thread, Kathy, and others are discussing it on the thread. I am just following along and learning.

 

[dan26552]

lol

WHAT YOU GET????

what the heck, you get four ovates and I posted the same in dry form and got notta lmao  yer special!!
May I ask how long this actually is active since its wet form? 
I need it to last thats why I use the powder and they always dust bath in shavings so it works two fold with the powder. 

hello Michael

Dang they are so dang sexy!!!

In short, a computer.

Doble Bubble ?

Bubble ther is 2 of you?

Double bubble is a bubble gum brand.

 

[Akrnaf2]

lol

WHAT YOU GET????

what the heck, you get four ovates and I posted the same in dry form and got notta lmao  yer special!!
May I ask how long this actually is active since its wet form? 
I need it to last thats why I use the powder and they always dust bath in shavings so it works two fold with the powder. 

hello Michael

Dang they are so dang sexy!!!

In short, a computer.

Doble Bubble ?

Bubble ther is 2 of you?

Double bubble is a bubble gum brand.

Yes I know, I could figure it out

 

[Pensmaster]

Good morning. I hope you are feeling better or at least improving.

You too @meltel.

Everyday better. Thanks.
Stay warm hear it's supposed to get colder this next week

 

[microchick]

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

 

[Akrnaf2]

One of the reasons way you have to much excessive police force used in the US.
[VIDEO]

 

[BantyChooks]

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

"Fleabay"

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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Spoiled chickens. I do have electric and a light in the doe barn, though.

I hope they'll feel spoiled in the next week or so. If being able to drink water when you're thirsty is spoiled.

The worst part of chicken keeping is providing water to 7 different flocks at 10F carrying it through snow 3 times a day.

what bacteria

Any of the zillions of bacteria the egg comes into contact with in the nest box, your hands and everything else it touches. That's why people fumigate incubators between hatches.

Good evening everyone. I got deposits on the other two kids tonight so I am good to go. Chores are almost done. Then I can catch up.

That's great.
I don't know why I presumed your age but I was surprised that you are much younger than I imagined.

wait you have a bad egg? a seeping egg or cracked? try wax or nail polish on the cracks??? pics help us help you!!!

He said it was leaking out the large end. He didn't say anything about a crack.

I've used both nail polish and beeswax on cracks and no hatches from those. This year I started using liquid skin bandage. It has an antibacterial component to it. They all hatched. One egg I dropped had cracks on about 70 % of the shell. Virtually 3/4 of the egg was covered with the liquid skin. I didn't think that one would be able to hatch but it popped right out.

Hi yall can u give this to chickens because mine got lice

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but can u give it to them the reason why I got this is because of money wise

Give it? Do you mean feed it to them?
It is for dusting, not internal use.
I add it to the chicken's dust baths along with sand, wood ashes, ag lime and a little dry soil.

It is a preventative, not really for a full fledged infestation. Once lice and mites are on the birds, it's time for a chemical treatment.

I even sat within range of a Deer Crossing sign for two days in a row. Not a single deer ever crossed there.

Just wait till next month. They'll cross there every day.

can u feed it to chickens

People do but I wouldn't. It serves no useful purpose when wet.

You supposedly can. I wouldn't.

At the best, it is ineffective when wet, just wasting it. At worse, it works fine and does yucky stuff to your bird's insides.... Ask 5 different peeps, you'll get 5 different answers. That's just my opinion.

My opinion too.
An old poultry friend of mine said it possibly has benefit in the feces during fly season by killing maggots when they hatch.

So on Sunday im probably going to get an incubator.Im wondering which incubator to buy though,Im curious to see what brands you guys use.Also i would like to hatch chicks this winter i have a coop and a have a greenhouse that my older chickens use would it be possible to have my old chickens out in the greenhouse and my young chicks in the coop with a heat lamp,And when night comes put the young chicks in a cage so the older chickens cant bully/kill them but so the older chickens can roost.A lot of my family members think that the chicks will die because of the cold i think other wise.Also curious to see how you guys keep your chicks in the winter.Thanks

Others will have opinions on a 'bator. I use homemade and I WON'T recommend a Little Giant. Even though I've hatched lots of chicks in it over the years, it has also killed an equal number or more. I call it my embryo executioner.
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Thanks,What do you do with your chicks in the winter?

I think otherwise too if you have electric available and you can provide a warm spot that can get as high as 90-100F, The rest of the space can be cool.

I used to use these hover brooders that I made from scratch and I will again when I have 50-100 chicks.




Notice how most of the chicks are around the perimeter where it is cooler.


Here's 2 in use. The shavings on top are for insulation holding the heat underneath. It isn't long before they chicks are roosting on top.
You can google, Ohio brooder to see designs.


As the chicks grow, you can put bricks under the legs so they can still move in and out at will.


This is the outside of the same building.


I have since quit using heat lamps. They break and fail, sometimes provide too much heat and are inefficient.
If I use those big brooders, I use ceramic heat emitters that come in wattages from 50 to 300 so you can use whatever it takes depending on weather.
If I don't have that many chicks to brood I use the premier 1 heat plates. I have a small (20 chicks) and an extra small (15 chicks).
https://www.premier1supplies.com/p/heating-plates-and-covers
After doing the math, they use so little energy I realized I saved the cost of the heat plates in a single batch of chicks. Or at least halfway through the second hatch.
They don't work in extreme cold though so in mid winter I use the big brooders.

I always answer "Harley Davidson" when someone asks me if I need anything.

Nice answer. Isn't the Harley plant up near you?

First thing that comes to my mind I could use is a Swiss chalet in Zermatt.

Well to give them the benefit of a doubt, they are just now finishing up molting. But I saw one of the roosters dancing for a hen the other day and just told her she couldn't keep her new feathers unruffled forever and pointed at a nesting box. The Welsummers were great last year, laying all through the winter but this year they are on the ova retention program.

IMHO, most breeds will lay great in their first winter. Then they all molt their second autumn and each thereafter. Some take a winter break, some resume after completely recovering from molt. At any rate, lay rate will climb after winter solstice. Sometimes after a few weeks, sometimes after a couple months.

I'm only getting 1-2 eggs a day from my flock at the moment. I have about 20 laying hens (not counting pullets, roos, cockerels). My older girls have already finished their molt but I swear, they're in bed by 3pm, before my kids even get home from school! Only the young ones stay out til it gets dark around 4:45.

I had 10 mature hens earlier in the fall and was getting 1 to 2 eggs a day as well. 25 various age pullets are just starting up. I'm now getting 3 or 4 from the hens and by the end of February I should be getting 20 to 30 a day.

The last few evenings they have been inside by 5 but up till then I was having to chase them in at quarter after 5 with a flash light. So much for chickens being afraid of the dark. I think they figured out the coop was warmer than outside.

Up until today I have one lonely little 9 month old hen that was giving me about 5 eggs a week. I started turning on a light for them from 3-6 just to entice them inside and hoping that the three pullets I was hoping would start to lay this month would do just that.

Bless em, they started laying on their 6th month birthday.

When I have a light in the coop at dusk that shines onto the ground outside, the birds tend not to go to bed on time. I have to turn the lights out to make them realize it is night time.

You just need more daylight, Jess, like all of us. Wanna petition the gov't for year 'round DST? I'll sign.

But then it wouldn't get light till 7 or 8.

Good morning dear dax!
I am here!

The students are well educated, but unfortunately in the last 15 years every year I receive students less, and less prepared ,they came from the junior high school less prepared, join that to their addiction to the "smartphone" and I get on my hand harder preparation every year. But they are good kids, the future of our great country so I do my best.

Cold but thankfully ice free. My electrician got delayed last weekend so hopefully he will get my new line hooked into the box tomorrow which will make chores much easier.

My electrician is constantly delayed. He is so lazy. He keeps logging onto BYC with the username of ChickenCanoe.

I was thinking I could help you with that if we lived closer and then I realized I had a lot of unfinished electric and piping.





Whoever it was that wanted to see my hexagon hut breeder complex, I found some of these pictures. I have more pictures of the construction process if you want them.
This is how I started one half of it.
This side is divided into 2 equal size units. It can hold a rooster and up to 8 hens in each half but that is if they can get out first thing in the morning


That side is almost finished here and you can see the other half hexagon being build on the left. That side is 3 units. The end units are for pairs and the middle is for trios.


This is that 3 unit side showing the pair unit.


Here's the same unit doing double duty as a broody apartment.


I think this is its first winter. The breezeway between the sides allows access to all nest boxes, bulk feeders and roosts under roof.

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good morning

Good morning.

This one does OK for the cows, but the goats and horses are not patient at all. The water is not visible, they have to press a tab like a water fountain and the water comes up from below the freeze line so it requires no power to operate.

What brand. I'd like to see the video.

 

[BantyChooks]

Now even accuweather is giving me ads for hatching eggs and dark brahma chicks.

Why must they pick my weakness??