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

[dan26552]

 is she one of the oldest?

Yes, she's one of the ones we got as day olds on the 10th of December 2015, she was about nine months old when she went broody the first time and she hatched 6 out of 10. She's just over a year now.

 

[The Duck Ladie]

Just bought my egg turner! It'll be delivered in a couple days!

 

[daxigait]

Your toes are lactating? gig)

Stupid voice typing errors.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I built a new brooder in my coop underneath the poop boards, but my power outlet is about 6 feet away. I am going to use one of the light strings like Pensmaster uses and want to get them to the brooder. I can either put it through some PVC pipe or electrical conduit, or put some holders along the wall to the brooder. I was just wondering since it generates heat if it would be an issue in the PVC and or on the coop floor or if I should hang the PVC along the wall.
Please excuse any voice type errors and lack of punctuation.

Is the rope light for heat or light?
If it is for heat, why not just run an extension cord to a brooder lamp fixture and a smaller wattage ceramic heat emitter (perhaps 75 to 150 watt)?
The rope lights aren't supposed to be covered or touch themselves so I gather there is sufficient heat generated. It probably wouldn't hurt the PVC or the conduit but you have that length of rope light doing nothing. That's why I suggested an extension cord.
3/4 or 1" thinwall conduit (EMT) would be a bit safer since it is metal but the enclosure and generated heat may cause the ropelight to fail.

I have a egg turner thankfully I was doing it by hand last time and I don't think opening the incubator a lot helped so this time I'm just leaving them to it and adding water every couple of days!! Hopefully I'll get a hatch

I'm currently turning by hand because I spend too much time on here and haven't gotten my cabinet rebuilt nor started the next generation one.

Quote: I thought I was coming on a little strong and tried to tone it down. As you can tell, it does drive me a little insane when people do stupid things with animals.
I thought about not posting at all but couldn't help myself.

Well. just finished talking to the HVAC guy. Looks like the heat exchanger manifold had 3 cracks about an inch long. System wouldn't stay on due to the fact that the fusible link had shorted out(did it's job). The whole inside of the unit is torched and the guy said he'd never seen one that bad that didn't cause a house fire. Luckily it's under warranty so it's only gonna cost the $100 service call and thankfully it wasn't any worse than it could have been.

Good and bad news.
Our upstairs furnace gave up this winter. It still works from time to time but I'm sure it is from not getting good air exchange. I think the wasps built a nest in the exhaust pipe that goes through the wall. The screen that usually keeps them out disintegrated. I ran a fishtape and brush in from the outside. Problem is it is 30 feet in the air. Scary.
That made it work periodically and the downstairs furnace air migrates up the two stairways. Luckily we like it cool when we sleep. It never really got much under 60 and it was a very mild winter.
I was going to open up the unit and run the fishtape from inside. It happened once before so that's why I think that's the problem. Worse comes to worse, I'll have to call my HVAC guy.

 

[daxigait]

Well. just finished talking to the HVAC guy. Looks like the heat exchanger manifold had 3 cracks about an inch long. System wouldn't stay on due to the fact that the fusible link had shorted out(did it's job). The whole inside of the unit is torched and the guy said he'd never seen one that bad that didn't cause a house fire. Luckily it's under warranty so it's only gonna cost the $100 service call and thankfully it wasn't any worse than it could have been.

I am thanking the Lord that you didn't have a fire.
I am glad too that it is under warranty. You have mouths to feed and heating units are awfully expensive.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Just bought my egg turner! It'll be delivered in a couple days!

Stupid voice typing errors.

You're excused.

Maybe it is from the confusion over the accent.

A combination of where you grew up and then the Joplin/Sarcoxie influence.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Well. just finished talking to the HVAC guy. Looks like the heat exchanger manifold had 3 cracks about an inch long. System wouldn't stay on due to the fact that the fusible link had shorted out(did it's job). The whole inside of the unit is torched and the guy said he'd never seen one that bad that didn't cause a house fire. Luckily it's under warranty so it's only gonna cost the $100 service call and thankfully it wasn't any worse than it could have been.

I am thanking the Lord that you didn't have a fire.
I am glad too that it is under warranty. You have mouths to feed and heating units are awfully expensive.

You don't use air-conditioning for heating? (I can't stand it, but here alot of people do use it)

 

[ChickenCanoe]

You don't use air-conditioning for heating? (I can't stand it, but here alot of people do use it)

Are you talking about heat pumps or heat exchangers?

In this part of the country, a furnace, wood stove, boiler or similar heat source is necessary since it can get down to -20F.
In the summer, people used to live without air conditioning but it was miserable (I remember). It can get to 120F and it doesn't cool down at night in the hottest summers. There are nights it doesn't drop below 90F.

 

[5Sons Coop]

Just bought my egg turner! It'll be delivered in a couple days!

What one did you get?

 

[newchickmama91]

Is the rope light for heat or light?
If it is for heat, why not just run an extension cord to a brooder lamp fixture and a smaller wattage ceramic heat emitter (perhaps 75 to 150 watt)?
The rope lights aren't supposed to be covered or touch themselves so I gather there is sufficient heat generated. It probably wouldn't hurt the PVC or the conduit but you have that length of rope light doing nothing. That's why I suggested an extension cord.
3/4 or 1" thinwall conduit (EMT) would be a bit safer since it is metal but the enclosure and generated heat may cause the ropelight to fail.

I'm currently turning by hand because I spend too much time on here and haven't gotten my cabinet rebuilt nor started the next generation one.

I thought I was coming on a little strong and tried to tone it down. As you can tell, it does drive me a little insane when people do stupid things with animals.
I thought about not posting at all but couldn't help myself.



Good and bad news.
Our upstairs furnace gave up this winter. It still works from time to time but I'm sure it is from not getting good air exchange. I think the wasps built a nest in the exhaust pipe that goes through the wall. The screen that usually keeps them out disintegrated. I ran a fishtape and brush in from the outside. Problem is it is 30 feet in the air. Scary.
That made it work periodically and the downstairs furnace air migrates up the two stairways. Luckily we like it cool when we sleep. It never really got much under 60 and it was a very mild winter.
I was going to open up the unit and run the fishtape from inside. It happened once before so that's why I think that's the problem. Worse comes to worse, I'll have to call my HVAC guy.

Mine developed well when I was hand turning but died later on in development. Pretty sure it was the humidity that caused that though! Trying to do different techniques to see what works well hopefully this one will