Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[CluckyCharms]

I just opened my bator and chicks came popping out from every shelf, lol I think it is a 100% hatch -1 white leghorn that still hasn't pipped. Soooo I lost that cheat sheet you sent I think I see splash Marans? And all 4 blue eggs with L or ML are lav amers? And TONS of blue barred rocks. Some white chick with a spot on it's head? A sex linked maran? I didn't expect them until tomorrow so I didn't have the hatching baskets ready. There are a lot of either blue,splash or lav chickies.

congrats!

 

[CasieD]

I'm looking for a few more eggs to put in for the NYD hatch along.
If you have any of these available to ship around the 7th so I can set them on the 11th please PM me for a possible side swap.

Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameracauna
Partridge Penendeseca
Basque


I have in spring or sooner:
18 week old SFH - 3 pullets & 1 cockeral none of mine have crests
18 week old trio of Wheaten Marans

Or paypal.

Thanks much!

 

[madamwlf]

I think it's hatch day at madamwlf's house today.......has anyone heard from her yet?

I have 2 eggs pipped and hoping to get more. I'm down to 6 eggs now.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

PP for post 4200 to kraftyladies has been sent.

I will get her English orp eggs one of these days. I will!

 

[kraftyladies]

received pp from hollowoakfarm... swap on!!

 

[kraftyladies]

received paypal from filumene, swap on!!

and received 2nd pp from hollowoak farm.... keep swappin!

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

On more pp sent to kraftyladies for post # 4207!

 

[cluckitall]

WOW, AyeUpChuck! That is quite the setup!

Sometime this winter I'm building another incubator. A big one. With auto-turning, because turning 60 eggs by hand is for the birds! (No pun intended, but, well, it IS!) What I'm trying to figure most of all is how to keep the air temps consistent throughout. I'm thinking heat source at the bottom, actually, because heat rises, and then a fan at the top to circulate air back down. Anyone here had experience building large 'bators?

 

[chiqita]

Cluck
For hand turning eggs try putting them in egg cartons and propping up one end then the other. Much less hand in the hand turning.

 

[cluckitall]

Chiquita, that's what I was going to do, but the temp variation between the bottom eggs and the top eggs made me too nervous! I don't know why it's so large in this particular 'bator, but it's like a degree and a half. So yeah, I'm hand-turning I suspect the problem is it's a cheap cooler, and pretty porous.