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

[kwhites634]

White naked necks also lay brown eggs
Watched a cooking show once, I actually believe it was Bobby Flay, said there was no difference between a brown egg and a white one, just that dark colored chickens laid brown eggs and white one's laid white eggs :O

That makes sense; brown cows give chocolate milk, don't they?

 

[BullChick]

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That makes sense; brown cows give chocolate milk, don't they?

X2

 

[minihorse927]

That makes sense; brown cows give chocolate milk, don't they?

that's what I've been told?

 

[dan26552]

I considered painting the bottom to seal for easier cleaning. Are you glad you did it?
I have a large (too tall) cabinet I built from scratch starting with a shelving unit my son was throwing away.
I keep upgrading it. It has STC 1000s for the both the incubator and hatcher.
My next one will be smaller and lighter but still able to incubate 150 eggs and 50 in the hatcher using an Arduino uno for control.

In a nest box she would have been able to cover her toes. She likely slept on something narrow where she wasn't able to cover her toes. I've had a few mild cases when they were out on snow all day in cold weather but they'd recover overnight by covering their toes on wide roosts.

Good luck with the Arduino! Mines worked pretty darn well so far.

 

[NaJoBeLe]

I considered painting the bottom to seal for easier cleaning. Are you glad you did it?
I have a large (too tall) cabinet I built from scratch starting with a shelving unit my son was throwing away.
I keep upgrading it. It has STC 1000s for the both the incubator and hatcher.
My next one will be smaller and lighter but still able to incubate 150 eggs and 50 in the hatcher using an Arduino uno for control.

In a nest box she would have been able to cover her toes. She likely slept on something narrow where she wasn't able to cover her toes. I've had a few mild cases when they were out on snow all day in cold weather but they'd recover overnight by covering their toes on wide roosts.

Absolutely, haven't regretted it even for a minute. I wish the paint was a bit more durable. I thought it would have stuck to the Styrofoam better. Like I said, I can go about 3 hatches before it starts flaking and has to be repainted. Makes clean up so much easier. I would have used the liners but apparently I have an older model and the water trough's have changed.

I managed to find a large 3 door display cooler on craigslist for free. It's been sitting for just over a year waiting on me. It will be overkill for what I want and need but couldn't pass it up being free. I was originally trying to find a single door.

 

[NaJoBeLe]

I considered painting the bottom to seal for easier cleaning. Are you glad you did it?
I have a large (too tall) cabinet I built from scratch starting with a shelving unit my son was throwing away.
I keep upgrading it. It has STC 1000s for the both the incubator and hatcher.
My next one will be smaller and lighter but still able to incubate 150 eggs and 50 in the hatcher using an Arduino uno for control.

In a nest box she would have been able to cover her toes. She likely slept on something narrow where she wasn't able to cover her toes. I've had a few mild cases when they were out on snow all day in cold weather but they'd recover overnight by covering their toes on wide roosts.

I'm torn if I want to stick with the STC-1000 or go with a wafer set up. The Arduino looks intriguing but significantly over my skill level.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

That makes sense; brown cows give chocolate milk, don't they?

well duh!

either that or they have to get them to drink a bunch of hersheys syrup and jump on a trampoline

 

[ChickenCanoe]

It is not a big problem, we in our border in Lebanon, have a border wall on our territory and between it to the official border we have the army patrolling. The US can bild the wall on its part and proclaim that it doesn't abandon its rights on the land and water that can be delivered to the US farmers. It is just a wall that is needed to block illegal immigrants and not to stop an army.

True but your border is much shorter and more inherently dangerous.

Terrestrial animals can't get over or around the wall but humans still can.
http://www.defendersblog.org/2014/07/saving-wildlife-north-south-border/
" Five of North America's six big cat species live in the borderlands, three of those don't live anywhere else in the U.S. The jaguar, ocelot and jaguarundi are all critically endangered in the U.S. due to habitat loss..."
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wi...-mexico-border-policy-is-devastating-wildlife

Ladders come in all lengths. Now we can concentrate interdiction in places where it is easiest to cross the border. With a wall, a long ladder can be used anywhere on the 2,000 mile length.

Just another small glitch. What about where the wall has to cross the Rio Grande where it comes down between Texas and New Mexico. How big of a hole will the wall be to allow flood water to exit and still keep humans from entering?

White naked necks also lay brown eggs
Watched a cooking show once, I actually believe it was Bobby Flay, said there was no difference between a brown egg and a white one, just that dark colored chickens laid brown eggs and white one's laid white eggs :O

That unenlightened train of thought comes from those that have only seen two breeds of chickens. White Leghorns and production reds.

But why did I get white eggs from my Black Leghorns. They should have been black.
Anconas should lay black and white speckled eggs.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: How 'bout unicorns? They come in all kinds of colors.