grannys gone and done it

[Granny Hatchet]

Sounds good Granny!

well, there is 3/4th of it still sitting in there . see if the chickens will eat it tomorrow. LOL I tell you what was good, that last piece of caramel I just polished off that twisted sent me.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

ya, when i was younger i milked some but never could get that rhythm down. barn cats seemed to enjoy it. LOL !!! good times what got me was when they would puck their food and chew some more. ya, I just couldnt get the milk to come down

 

[Granny Hatchet]

campingshaws, what kind of incubator do you have ? seen my phoenix on my RIR today. the buff orphs are really big birds and he is getting them too. I think he needs to go. he is not what i had in mind for the babies. I have a ton of baby bantam roos too. fist sized and crowing. I dont know what to do with them. at least 7 are roosters. too small to eat?

 

[campingshaws]

This kind! I think the brand is Little Giant.

 

[enola]

I have 3 of those. I use 2 of them as incubators and one of them for my hatchers! I suggest you go online and buy the liners for the incubators. The liners will make sterilizing them easy as pie! And they will last longer too.

 

[campingshaws]

I have 3 of those. I use 2 of them as incubators and one of them for my hatchers! I suggest you go online and buy the liners for the incubators. The liners will make sterilizing them easy as pie! And they will last longer too.

That's brilliant. I never would have imagine they have liners. What thermometer do you use? I have three in there, all three with different readings, so I have no idea which to believe.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

aaah, I forgot, you got those same as me for Christmas. I didnt know about the liners either. Enola gets her thermometers from wally world in the hardware section. I have 3 in mine as well. Last one i bought at wally world in the kitchen stuff. a meat thermometer you can calibrate. tells you how on the back . I was there for a scale to weight the serama eggs and such. they had a good selection of those

 

[enola]

I use a digital indoor thermometer/hygrometer in mine. Bought it in wal~mart.

The liner came from Eggcarton.com ( I think ). You will LOVE the liner!

 

[campingshaws]

I picked up these at Walmart. Two in the bator, one on the wall. I wasn't sure if I could trust the digital, I don't know why. And the bator came with it's own thermometer. So the little giant thermometer is at 102, the acurite is at 100, and the second acurite (against the bator wall) is at 96. Next hatch I'll just stick one of those fish tank thermometers to each egg.

 

[enola]

I would trust a digital before i would trust the ordinary one. I have the thermometer/hygrometer one inside the incubator. Then i have a remote thermometer in each incubator. The thermometer transmits the degrees to the monitors sitting the livingroom. I can tell the temperaures by looking at the digital readout in the livingroom!

The most important tip I can give you about LG incubators --- set it up in a room that has a fairly constant temperature. A LG incubator can not work in constantly fluctuating temperatures.

The second tip for operating them is to get a button at least as big as a nickle and use super glue to glue it to the little knob that you adjust the temperature with. When you turn the knob, just turn it A HAIR ! Seriously, just turn the knob the eensiest, weensiest little bit. Wait a couple of hours before you adjust it again.