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

[runt325]

Shalom pen.
We are both victim's of the green house effect. .......
We surly need it and you certainly too, I am praying for good and wet winter!

hi

 

[daxigait]

See this
One of uses of Hydrogen peroxide is killing biting parasites!

[VIDEO]

A vet told me food grade hydrogen peroxide is good for water tanks too.

@Sally Sunshine@BantyChooks
We should add the hydrogen peroxide to the list for dealing with mites.
Thanks Benny

 

[incubateme]

Can anyone help me all three of my thermometers are showing different temps including the incubator that I need to calibrate what should I do?

 

[Akrnaf2]

Shalom pen.
We are both victim's of the green house effect. .......
We surly need it and you certainly too, I am praying for good and wet winter!

hi

What's up? Do you have a dirt bike?

 

[LittleLakePhil]

It's freaking cold out... I got 8 degrees.... Time to book the heat lamps up for my ducks.
My flock of AC's are in a heated cage..... Bet they are happy about that right about now.

 

[dan26552]

It's freaking cold out... I got 8 degrees.... Time to book the heat lamps up for my ducks.
My flock of AC's are in a heated cage..... Bet they are happy about that right about now.

 

[BullChick]

Can anyone help me all three of my thermometers are showing different temps including the incubator that I need to calibrate what should I do?

The instructions are at the beginning of the thread.

 

[dan26552]

The instructions are at the beginning of the thread.

Morning MC

 

[kwhites634]

It's freaking cold out... I got 8 degrees.... Time to book the heat lamps up for my ducks.
My flock of AC's are in a heated cage..... Bet they are happy about that right about now.

Break out the ice fishing equipment

How'd you fare in the deer hunting arena? Our rifle season ends tomorrow, and I've yet to drop the hammer on a single deer. Seen plenty, more than ever before, actually, but nothing worth spending a bullet on...all young stuff from the Spring. If I'm going through gutting, skinning, and cutting up a deer, I'm getting more than a sandwich out of the deal.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

First hatching is going to be some eggs from my Buff O hens. Roosters will be either Buff O, Welsummer or crosses. I have Welsummer hens but last summer I had fertility problems with some of them. The hens were beating up the roosters. No kidding. Saw it with my own eyes. My Buff O Welsummer cross chickens are robust, friendlier than the Welsummers and lay nice large brown eggs.

Then I would like to try to hatch some bantam chicks for myself and a friend. She and her husband have been very kind to my husband and myself and their OEGB rooster just died of old age. I thought I would try to hatch some OEGBs if I can find eggs near by. If I can't I'll try to hatch more of our Amish neighbors OEGB cross eggs.

My husband once got thrown out of a mall for taking pictures. He was a photographer and just taking pictures of people for fun. That was 40 years ago.

Are your Welsummers laying dark eggs?
Mine were very dark but I got a real surprise when I crossed them with the extremely dark line of Penedesencas. The offsprings' eggs weren't dark at all.
Complicated genetics.

I was worried about the pictures but I saw 3 others taking pictures. The place is quite a sight.

@ChickenCanoe Are you saying I sound old

The waterer is a a Bar Bar A if you google it.

I have the wire hung and burried, I am just not comfortable with the GF outlets and the breaker box. My friend is too busy not lazy.

Whoa there Nellie. I was afraid it would come across wrong. I don't think you sound old. It was just a perception of the summation of all your writings. Lets say they were - maturation.

I also wasn't implying that your friend was lazy, I meant I was because I haven't finished my electric projects.

Chickencanoe, what you need is a smaller camera! DH buys cameras that are less than an inch in size to use in his FPV airplanes. He's telling me how easy it would be to run a wire up you sleeve and nobody would know the difference.

My Dad was Pennsylvania Dutch. Pickled tripe was one of his favorite snack foods. I could eat it as long as I didn't think about it being cow stomach. It was sorta kinda like calamari only chewier....definitely an acquired taste.

Assuming it is an acquired taste. I don't like when my calamari is chewy so chewier than that could be a problem.

State of confusion

I don't post my location on the 'net, sorry... I do have OEGB, but as my flock has a nagging respiratory illness that might be MG, I don't feel right shipping eggs to people who might be MG free.

They couldn't find you anyway.

I've wondered, since first hearing the term, just what are essential oils? Essential for what?

Not essential for something, essential, as in the essence of something.

...
Purely Poultry actually sells Silkie broiler chicks for raising for meat... I thought about getting some, but I already have an order in for 25 Naked Necks from Dunlap plus planning to hatch some of my own. That's PLENTY for this year...
@FaerieChicken , Brinsea sells an incubator cleaner/disinfectant concentrate that I bought when I got my Brinsea incubator. Not all that expensive, will likely last nearly forever...
...

I guess at $11 for a 2 pound bird, it may be worth raising them for meat if one has an Asian community nearby.

Yeah, that's what I couldn't make sense of.

I successfully raised chickens through the winter in this same coop last year, no issues at all (in fact, they were the Naked Necks). And Tank has a big comb...

It just occurred to me - there is a tarp over hardware cloth as the roof, and the roof is slanted on the sides - I wonder if he's roosting nearer the side and his comb was touching cold HW cloth overnight? That's the only thing I can think of. The Naked Necks slept on the floor in a pile (weirdos...)

- Ant Farm

Are you in the panhandle?
If not, you have your nerve calling what you have - WINTER.

See this
One of uses of Hydrogen peroxide is killing biting parasites!

Thanks. Interesting.
I use it a lot.

And did he lose the points?

I just went out with the red headlamp to double check how they sit on the roosts and the ventilation. Ventilation is as expected, very good, BUT - their tractor coop is one of the first I built before modification to add the roosts, and the roof is set a little lower than the other tractor coops, so less headroom. And indeed I found Monkey on one end of the roost - comb not touching the HW cloth when I looked, but easy to see how it might when he raised his head. I think this is what may have happened, comb touching very cold metal of HW cloth overhead. I think I may lower their roosts a couple inches.

Meanwhile, wondering how the comb will look tomorrow. It would be great if I got a "heads up" in this before any major stuff. (I don't care about appearance, but I'd rather him not be in pain or injured if avoidable.)

- Ant Farm

It has just gotten into the mid teens and no damage to huge combs yet.

A vet told me food grade hydrogen peroxide is good for water tanks too.

@Sally Sunshine @BantyChooks
We should add the hydrogen peroxide to the list for dealing with mites.
Thanks Benny

I'll try that for the tanks. It would be better than bleach.

Can anyone help me all three of my thermometers are showing different temps including the incubator that I need to calibrate what should I do?

I've been through that. You can compare them to an oral thermometer but I opted for a guaranteed accurate thermometer.
I love this one.
http://www.thermoworks.com/RT301WA
A Brinsea Spot Check is a good one too.
After I got those, I threw away all the others.

It's freaking cold out... I got 8 degrees.... Time to book the heat lamps up for my ducks.
My flock of AC's are in a heated cage..... Bet they are happy about that right about now.

It's cold here now too.
Is it pricey to heat your coops? How do you do it?