Hatching egg arrival, angry postman and homemade automatic egg turner failure.

[Dcat]

I saw your picture and thought the same thing! I stopped using a bowl and sponge, I had it on top of the screen but took up so much room and I found if I just pour it on the bottom of the cooler I get a larger area of water and my humidity goes up. With the sponge and bowl I couldn't get humidity higher than 35%. I only have about 3/4 of an inch between the screen and bottom but since I don't put a lot of water in there I don't have to worry about flopping chicks drowning.

 

[winteree]

aww bummer.

so why guinea's feathers? eggs? meat?

i'll be trying to hatch 3 RIR's and 3 assorted bantams

 

[winteree]

yeah i see that. My humidty is around 35%-42% but i think pouring the water in the bottom is a great idea i try that on thurday when i'm going to be here the whole day. I have class tomarro i hope the temp doesn't spike while i'm done

 

[Dcat]

It's easy to clean after all the hatching too, just take out the screen wipe everything down as needed and put the screen back. I have a syringe that I use to add water through one of the lower holes I poked in the cooler so on lock down I don't have to worry about the lid. I'm going to add a piece of tubing that will fit through the hole and onto the syringe so I can take water out if I have to also. I didn't do that the last time but thought it would be a good thing to do just in case.

 

[winteree]

for sure i'm going to be biteing my nails the whole time untill something hatches

 

[goatee]

thats awesome i have been useing this avatar for allmost 8 years for different websites and your like the second person that knows the band

lol i LOVE tourniquet, pathogenic is probably still my favorite. Ted is the man.

 

[goatee]

aww bummer.

so why guinea's feathers? eggs? meat?

i'll be trying to hatch 3 RIR's and 3 assorted bantams

Sorry i didn't realize you had posted this one. I originally got guineas because I read they would eat ticks and other bugs. We are surrounded by farm and I hope they will get to work eating them. I'm afraid though that once the wheat grows this year they will disappear into it and not come back. I have read that I can keep a guinea female in the pen and they will come back to her call so I may switch off and on with that. I'm hatching guineas because out of 10 I am down to 5 and I don't think they are hungry enough to eat that many ticks.

 

[winteree]

Dang straight i think my fav album is stop the bleeding it has some insane guitar work

 

[winteree]

yeah my grand grandma would set cow patys down in the fleids with tick and after a week she would burn them for some reason the ticks love cow poo

 

[goatee]

ya some mad skills on that album. Ha the cow paddy thing is super interesting never heard of that! I'll have to give it a try.