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

[mlm Mike]

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

Wow. 90+ eggs! What are your plans for all those chicks?

 

[Kiki]

Good morning!

 

[Kiki]

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.

Are you like Wicked..with 5000 roosters?

 

[mlm Mike]

Good morning!View attachment 1135902

 

[Kiki]

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

90!
Over achiever??

 

[mlm Mike]

Are you like Wicked..with 5000 roosters?

Not even close! (that was last year)

 

[Kiki]

Not even close! (that was last year)

Good good....I'd hate to have to add your name to my cray cray list.

 

[mlm Mike]

Good good....I'd hate to have to add your name to my cray cray list.

How long is this list?

 

[Pensmaster]

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?

My neighbor hates the automatic turners. She says she has much better hatches with turning by hand.

 

[Kiki]

How long is this list?

Off the top of my head...I can count 4.
So not too long.