Girls vs Girls

[Kagu]

Oh ya does the fan work automatically?

Oh and we are going to buy an egg turner (then maybe 50 quail eggs- a person sells 50 for $5

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[Kagu]

 

[Marty1876]

Circulated air is good! LG (Little Giants) are functional, but need a little help, but its easy.

1. They don't always hold heat great, so its important to have heat sinks. (ex, a whole bunch of eggs, not like 6 - or if its NOT an auto turner, I'd fill some small jars w/lids up with water, and stick them all around the outside edges) Heat sinks are basically anything with enough mass to get to the right temp, and stay there. The fuller your bator is, the better it will hold the idea temp of 99.5 F. You want it too hold this temp, and hold it well. This will make your eggies hatch better.

2. They have humidity issues. I simply keep 2 sponges (the normal dishwash sort with lots of various sized wholes, kinda feels a bit like cloth, not the one that is clearly just some kind of plastic) below each bator window. When you turn eggs (3 x a day, as close to 8 hours apart as humany possible- I like 7am, 3 pm, and last minute before bed....remember how I was always up until 11 pm our time? It was so I could turn the eggs and go to bed!) add water to the sponges, if they are dry. Just check when you turn. Wait until they feel dry, than soak them again and back in the bator. (use lukewarm, not hot or cold water)

3. That

little tiny skinny knob used to adjust temps is gonna make you want to pound your head on a wall, it adjust TOO MUCH! Here is the solution. Do you have a hot glue gun??? I hope so, otherwise you gotta use superglue or rubber cement. I find a stiff piece of clear plastic (like you find in wrapping from packaging) and I cut out a 1.5" round disc. I mark the center with a pen. I warm up the hot glue gun, and put a drop of glue onto my dot, and quickly stick it onto the LG KNOB for adj. temps, and hold it firmly 30 seconds. Now, draw on arrows with a permanent marker noting UP and DOWN. Know, you can very finely adjust your temps without moving it by 2 degrees. BARELY move the thing at all when you make adjustments, and then wait 3 hours before you touch it again. LGs temps range a bit, but if you do #1 well, you'll have FAR FAR LESS TROUBLE AND NOT LOSE YOUR MIND like you will if you don't. Trust me on this, I'm giving you pearls.

4. Put folded washclothes or cut pieces of cardboard over the windows when you leave the bator. This will help it hold in heat much better.

I'm so happy you have a bator! Remember, first attempts to hatch don't count. Make the bator get to temp for 2 full days w/o trouble before you put in a living egg. Use the heat sinks, its very important.

 

[Marty1876]

Oh ya does the fan work automatically?

Oh and we are going to buy an egg turner (then maybe 50 quail eggs- a person sells 50 for $5

)

Fan works when you plug it in. The egg turner you plug in seperate. If you get the auto turner, it'll take up space you really need for heat sinks. LGs are harder to use a bit, but they do work and they are affordable. WTH are you gonna do if even 25 quial hatch??? Please, start with just 12 or 24 eggs. Quail are kinda flightly, but no worse than a partridge I guess. Worse than pigeons.

 

[Kagu]

Circulated air is good! LG (Little Giants) are functional, but need a little help, but its easy.

1. They don't always hold heat great, so its important to have heat sinks. (ex, a whole bunch of eggs, not like 6 - or if its NOT an auto turner, I'd fill some small jars w/lids up with water, and stick them all around the outside edges) Heat sinks are basically anything with enough mass to get to the right temp, and stay there. The fuller your bator is, the better it will hold the idea temp of 99.5 F. You want it too hold this temp, and hold it well. This will make your eggies hatch better.

2. They have humidity issues. I simply keep 2 sponges (the normal dishwash sort with lots of various sized wholes, kinda feels a bit like cloth, not the one that is clearly just some kind of plastic) below each bator window. When you turn eggs (3 x a day, as close to 8 hours apart as humany possible- I like 7am, 3 pm, and last minute before bed....remember how I was always up until 11 pm our time? It was so I could turn the eggs and go to bed!)

3. That

little tiny skinny knob used to adjust temps is gonna make you want to pound your head on a wall, it adjust TOO MUCH! Here is the solution. Do you have a hot glue gun??? I hope so, otherwise you gotta use superglue or rubber cement. I find a stiff piece of clear plastic (like you find in wrapping from packaging) and I cut out a 1.5" round disc. I mark the center with a pen. I warm up the hot glue gun, and put a drop of glue onto my dot, and quickly stick it onto the LG KNOB for adj. temps, and hold it firmly 30 seconds. Now, draw on arrows with a permanent marker noting UP and DOWN. Know, you can very finely adjust your temps without moving it by 2 degrees. BARELY move the thing at all when you make adjustments, and then wait 3 hours before you touch it again. LGs temps range a bit, but if you do #1 well, you'll have FAR FAR LESS TROUBLE AND NOT LOSE YOUR MIND like you will if you don't. Trust me on this, I'm giving you pearls.

4. Put folded washclothes or cut pieces of cardboard over the windows when you leave the bator. This will help it hold in heat much better.

I'm so happy you have a bator! Remember, first attempts to hatch don't count. Make the bator get to temp for 2 full days w/o trouble before you put in a living egg. Use the heat sinks, its very important.

We're most likely putting the eggs in tomorrow, but their chickies eggs, and if the hens lay enough, MAYBE 8? So might want to try quail first....

1) OK, well, last night when I checked it was at like 80, when I checked like a couple hours ago it was still 80 (nothing in), but I adjusted the temp. According to what you said maybe too much....Ya I just checked it was at 120*F

2) I'll do so, but how do I tell when its to much or to little humid?

3) It works for me

But I'll see if my moms OK with doing that

4) Right now I want it to cool! Lol!

Me too!! I'm just waiting for our turner! Are quail hatches easier or harder or same as chicken? If it works instead of buying chicks we'll just order hatching eggs (I'm planning on Ameracaunas from a BYCer, leghorns from either a hatchery or a BYCer, Sumatras, cochins, japanese bantams or more seremas or a mixture of eggs from a BYCer!

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[Kevin565]

Aww

Oh, hes so cute!!

Heres my buck

 

[Kevin565]

I missed everyone???

ah man, talk about breaks. I'm stuck most of the day up a ladder painting, until my most annoying "friend" shows up and hangs out like 5 hours. Makes us feed her and her brat son. Spends her time fussing at MY kids, while she lets hers go wack classic cars with a stick.

I intend to do everything in my power to avoid her in the future.

I was rather hoping to get to come chat with a real friend for the first time in days.

. I'm here too!

 

[Kagu]

Fan works when you plug it in. The egg turner you plug in seperate. If you get the auto turner, it'll take up space you really need for heat sinks. LGs are harder to use a bit, but they do work and they are affordable. WTH are you gonna do if even 25 quial hatch??? Please, start with just 12 or 24 eggs. Quail are kinda flightly, but no worse than a partridge I guess. Worse than pigeons.

Does the fan plug in seperate then the bator?
We need it because I have school, my sister work, my parents work, and while I could do it in the morning then when I get off school but some days I have physical therapy and I don't trust my memory...

OK OK I won't get 50,

I just wanted to up my chance

 

[Kagu]

KEVIN!

 

[Kevin565]

Kagu :D

Marty :D