Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[debs_flock]

Part of the problem, I think, is that the diagram that this guy has written out doesn't match his video OR the diagram for the actual thermostat. In order for his diagram to "work", you have to flip the paper over, so the writing is on the bottom of the page and you have to try to read through it that way, or flip everything else upside down. THEN, when you hook it up based solely on his diagram, the thermostat doesn't even have power, because his diagram doesn't have the wire that goes from one bay to the other bay in the thermostat itself, like it's supposed to. HOWEVER, if you DO have the power connected in that way, you're putting ac to the dc receiver, which fries that **** relay. The relay has me completely confused, because it's a "stop light" according to Ed's layman's terms. Isn't that the entire point of the freaking thermostat? To stop power when necessary?! So why is this relay necessary? The relay is what's causing problems... It intakes DC and outputs AC, so it's like a converter, except that you need another converter to convert everything back. For MY understanding, that relay is stupid and unneccesary, but the guy claims that it's required for the thermostat to work. I need to research the stupid relay and figure out exactly what it does.

What kind of incubator was it?

For the first time in months I felt like sewing yesterday. Look what I made!

Very cute. I think you could sell these, if you knew people that were "into" chickens

 

[RedBrush Farm]

Does anyone have pictures of SFH and CCL at about 2 months old. I have them together and can't tell them apart. I have googled and looked at so many pictures, but find chick pictures and grown pictures but nothing in between. Any help would be appreciated.....

Also, feel like I need to clarify something I said on here this morning. I either have, have claimed chicks, or have claimed eggs which would put me at 23 different breeds. I asked about sending eggs I had claimed to someone else, and mentioned wanting to specialize at some point. I WANT everything I have claimed. I have pens now to house 12 different adult trios or quads comfortably and my husband is building more pens. I fully intend to grow out everything I get. I want to see and watch them up close. My point was that on some of my claims, I claimed 2-3 swaps of the same breed. I was wanting to "gift" others with some of the eggs that I had multiple claims of. I enjoy hatching and I enjoy sharing. I hope no one felt I was NOT WANTING what I had claimed. I still have a "wish list" of chickens I would like to grow out. I do know at some point I will need to stop and decide what I want to concentrate on. I plan on retiring in 5 or so years. My plan is to have decided by then what I want to do. I really would like to work on some "projects" and learn more about genetics. I hope everyone understands what I was trying to say..... I have rec'd a couple PM's and just wanted folks to know I did not mean anything negative by what I said.....

 

[Bama1]

I'm so jealous. Even my neighbors flowers come up before mine do!! I guess it doesn't help that we are so far North the sun comes up BEHIND my house!! So all the people on one side of the street have flowers just poking up while the opposite side has flowers 12" UP!! But hey I guess I can't complain I am in zone 3B/4A but I still have butterfly bushes!

I have a friend that lives in Caribou. I think she is nuts for living in all that snow. In the summer she thinks I am nuts living in tropical-ish heat and humidity.

 

[tazcat70]

It's a 110. Now, I'm completely confused, because the guy's video does NOT match up to his wiring diagram at all. Not to mention, his wiring diagram doesn't match up with the wiring diagram from the actual thermostat. The thermostat has the two bays connected, his diagram does not, and when you wire to his diagram, the thermostat won't even turn on. I found out WHY my stupid relay was fried (THANK GOD I bought a second one because I was being impatient!!!) The rat's nest that was in there from the original wiring and then Ed's additional rat's nest had everything all funky. I completely removed my indicator light on the bator, which was connected to the main power source, AND the relay, and that's where the power came from to fry the relay. Now, my indicator light will not work, because I honestly don't know how to wire that in, HOWEVER, the thermostat, provided that I get this all correct the second time around, has it's own indicator light. Now, I have to figure out exactly how to connect the two bays in the thermostat together, when one is supposed to be a DC, and it's supposed to also be connected to the relay, which is AC... Since I'm literally electrically retarded, this is extremely difficult for me. I look at a simple light bulb connection, which I know is easy, and I can connect the idea that it's easy enough and should be simple, I am just missing some kind of connection in my head that tells me HOW to do it. I can't even explain why it doesn't make sense to me, lol.

Betta, let me see if I understand. The thermostat runs on DC. The relay changes the current from AC to DC. Is this correct?

 

[Bama1]

Does anyone have pictures of SFH and CCL at about 2 months old. I have them together and can't tell them apart. I have googled and looked at so many pictures, but find chick pictures and grown pictures but nothing in between. Any help would be appreciated.....

Also, feel like I need to clarify something I said on here this morning. I either have, have claimed chicks, or have claimed eggs which would put me at 23 different breeds. I asked about sending eggs I had claimed to someone else, and mentioned wanting to specialize at some point. I WANT everything I have claimed. I have pens now to house 12 different adult trios or quads comfortably and my husband is building more pens. I fully intend to grow out everything I get. I want to see and watch them up close. My point was that on some of my claims, I claimed 2-3 swaps of the same breed. I was wanting to "gift" others with some of the eggs that I had multiple claims of. I enjoy hatching and I enjoy sharing. I hope no one felt I was NOT WANTING what I had claimed. I still have a "wish list" of chickens I would like to grow out. I do know at some point I will need to stop and decide what I want to concentrate on. I plan on retiring in 5 or so years. My plan is to have decided by then what I want to do. I really would like to work on some "projects" and learn more about genetics. I hope everyone understands what I was trying to say..... I have rec'd a couple PM's and just wanted folks to know I did not mean anything negative by what I said.....

Cjwaldon has wonderful pic article on CCL here is the link. Hope it helps
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/cjwaldons-member-page

 

[ssterling1776]

I'm so jealous. Even my neighbors flowers come up before mine do!! I guess it doesn't help that we are so far North the sun comes up BEHIND my house!! So all the people on one side of the street have flowers just poking up while the opposite side has flowers 12" UP!! But hey I guess I can't complain I am in zone 3B/4A but I still have butterfly bushes!

I have a friend that lives in Caribou. I think she is nuts for living in all that snow. In the summer she thinks I am nuts living in tropical-ish heat and humidity.  

I will take mild winters with snow every 10 years (1-2" maybe) and hot humid summers...even hurricane season in the gulf... over freezing cold winters with tons of snow anyway!

 

[KYTinpusher]

Does anyone have pictures of SFH and CCL at about 2 months old. I have them together and can't tell them apart. I have googled and looked at so many pictures, but find chick pictures and grown pictures but nothing in between. Any help would be appreciated.....

Also, feel like I need to clarify something I said on here this morning. I either have, have claimed chicks, or have claimed eggs which would put me at 23 different breeds. I asked about sending eggs I had claimed to someone else, and mentioned wanting to specialize at some point. I WANT everything I have claimed. I have pens now to house 12 different adult trios or quads comfortably and my husband is building more pens. I fully intend to grow out everything I get. I want to see and watch them up close. My point was that on some of my claims, I claimed 2-3 swaps of the same breed. I was wanting to "gift" others with some of the eggs that I had multiple claims of. I enjoy hatching and I enjoy sharing. I hope no one felt I was NOT WANTING what I had claimed. I still have a "wish list" of chickens I would like to grow out. I do know at some point I will need to stop and decide what I want to concentrate on. I plan on retiring in 5 or so years. My plan is to have decided by then what I want to do. I really would like to work on some "projects" and learn more about genetics. I hope everyone understands what I was trying to say..... I have rec'd a couple PM's and just wanted folks to know I did not mean anything negative by what I said.....

If you can post pictures, we can help. I have lots of pics of my SFH growing up in the albums of my profile page. The younger ones are in the Uploads album, I believe. Many of them are labeled with age.

 

[flocksalot]

Hello all! This has been a great chicken weekend for me!! I got to meet some of the local chicken nuts Friday, I met a lady who offered to give me some frizzled EE hatching eggs for a test hatch. She also threw in a serama egg and some barnyard mixes. With my luck, just the serama will hatch :/ but we keep trying. I am loving the hova bator. Steady temp all the way

Saturday, I drove up to Logan, about two hours north of me and picked up some wheaten ameracauna chicks and some (hatchery) houdans. The houdans were sexed pullets, so I can use the best of those for my breeding program, I hope. The weather was perfect driving weather. Beautiful clear day, but too cold and windy to really want to be outside in it. I think I need to go on pleasure drives more often... Hope all is well in chicken land

But gosh what a pretty drive it is! My oldest son was born in SLC and it was such a pretty place. Course going up to the high Unitas for the forth of July and waking up to snow made me realize the valley was the place to be.

 

[RedBrush Farm]

Cjwaldon has wonderful pic article on CCL here is the link. Hope it helps
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/cjwaldons-member-page

Thanks for the link!! From her pictures, it appears I have all CCL in the group. Must have the SFH in with the other group I have together. Many of that group look alike also. I had planned on banding their legs after they were hatched to keep them apart. I had not anticipated that many of them would look so much alike I would not be able to tell them apart in order to put the band on! Time will tell

 

[cluckitall]

Maybe putting a little paper towel folded to raise them up a bit?

That's a good idea. Or something, at least, to get them higher/looser in the cup!