First hatch in Brinsea DONE! See Stats and Final Pic!

[Happy Chooks]

Congrats!


I'm so all over those light brahma's if/when you have hatching eggs for sale. Or if you have extras. I LOVE my light brahma girl.

 

[ISSOLA]

I enjoyed all the photos of the bator, chicks, as well as your robust enthusiasm ! Thanks for sharing....

 

[The Sheriff]

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This batch of light Brahmas were already pre-sold in fact the eager owner already picked them up.

But I am getting more to replace the ones that broke during shipment. I plan to keep some of those. Maybe we can share the chicks that hatch from the replacement eggs?

Mary

 

[Mahonri]

I think I'm gonna SPLURGE and buy a Brinsea.

I can sell the chicks...right????

 

[The Sheriff]

Yeah, and you can use the proceeds to buy Chinese take-out like we did tonight! Who said raising chickens isn't profitable?

 

[mediazeal]

What do you have the eggs sitting in to be upright like this and get so many in?
I use egg cartons in my Brinsea. They look like they are standing upright but are not touching, so I didn't think you were using the metal dividers that go between rows.

 

[The Sheriff]

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I am using the metal dividers and the foam spacers. Some of these are bantam eggs and I could fit more in. The way I did it was to leave out the spacer next to the edge, then put in a spacer 8 notches over. I put all the largest eggs in there. That is the row at the bottom of the picture. Then I put another spacer 7 notches over and fit eggs in there. I kept fitting in eggs as I went along until the final row was the perfect size for the bantam eggs. I paid too much for this thing to have to use egg cartons! I found that having the each touching really helped keep them from rolling out during the auto-turning. I moved them to the Hovabator and spaced them out for the actual hatch.

 

[k2chickens]

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love this picture. Where is the millie? Is that him on the bottom right far side? Looks like him...lol. Where did you get your millie eggs from?

 

[The Sheriff]

Yes he is in the far right corner. I got my MFD eggs from Lynne of Wingshadows Hacienda in So Cal. I now have 38 MFD's in the incubator from bantyrooster!

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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Cull that cutie directly to MY house.