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

[mlm Mike]

Morning Mike. Too many chickens here as well. Not looking forward to the rain and feeding here either. We are one degree warmer than you.

Hi Pensmaster! What is you expected high today, we're headed towards a whopping 70*F?

I'm going to need to feed a lot of this into winter, broody hens got out of hand, and I thought I was pretty good at catching them and breaking them this year.

 

[mlm Mike]

You and me both I had to dust everyone last night and did a rough head count...about 65 and that's only the chickens and nobody in brooders. I thought that I had already narrowed down the flock apparently, not enough. I'm going to have to make some tough choices here soon.

I thought I was at a decent count too, now not so much.

 

[Pensmaster]

85* today

I tell everyone I've stopped counting when asked. 3 broodies still going. Not even taking them from them anymore.

I will also need to send lots to freezer camp before rain I hope.

Probably 65+

 

[mlm Mike]

85* today

I tell everyone I've stopped counting when asked. 3 broodies still going. Not even taking them from them anymore.

I will also need to send lots to freezer camp before rain I hope.

Probably 65+

That's a lot of processing! We're heading to the low 80's on Sunday for a few days I think. I'm heading back to the lake tomorrow. Going to smoke some turkey for me and a neighbor out there on Saturday. Getting hungry just thinking about it.

 

[mlm Mike]

Weather forecast looks really good

 

[Christinecam]

After being away a few days, then coming home and feeding the chickens, I have come to the conclusion that I have too many chickens.

Nooo! That's just not possible.

 

[mlm Mike]

Nooo! That's just not possible.

LOL, It's possible!

 

[Christinecam]

Good morning everyone! Drizzling and 66 here. I truly need to invest in making a PVC feeder for my chickens. Much to tropical here, and I waste a lot of feed tossing the wet muck.
I'm trying something new with my incubators. I noticed that the turner vibration is to much. So I'm turning by hand 5 x a day. I have thermometers all over the hatch/ brooder room. Which I also have a large fish tank in so the temps and humidity stay about the same, when I open slightly to turn. Of course hands are washed and gloves on.
Right now I cannot invest in new turners so has anyone had luck with hand turning?

 

[mlm Mike]

Good morning everyone! Drizzling and 66 here. I truly need to invest in making a PVC feeder for my chickens. Much to tropical here, and I waste a lot of feed tossing the wet muck.
I'm trying something new with my incubators. I noticed that the turner vibration is to much. So I'm turning by hand 5 x a day. I have thermometers all over the hatch/ brooder room. Which I also have a large fish tank in so the temps and humidity stay about the same, when I open slightly to turn. Of course hands are washed and gloves on.
Right now I cannot invest in new turners so has anyone had luck with hand turning?

Hand turning is perfectly fine.

 

[Christinecam]

LOL, It's possible!

Okay, okay to be fair I'm a bit overwhelmed with 90+ eggs incubating, in my urban setting.