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Daria, You will be fine. how do you add moisture to your incubator?
Andy in Fredericksburg
there is a well (for lack of a better term) thru the entire bottom of the bator.
BTW Andy, how much cold protection do you use for your Icelandic's? I am guessing they dont need much with the central TX weather. I think I spent a total of 10 days over the winter below freezing. And that never lasts for long.
It's going to be 89 here today
Daria,
I am guessing those are Hovabators then. I have one like it, as well as a Sears round tin incubator that used a metal bowl for water. One suggestion I have is heat the water before filling the well. if the water is 99.5 to 100.5 there will be less fluctuation in overall temp. And if you can get some use distilled water. I osed only covering, as in shed and chicken house during the winter, no heating. We had some very cold days here, records, like 9* which in a place where many houese are uninsulated is painful. We never got our place heated above 53 with central heat, bathroom heaters, the stove and plug in radiator heaters running full time. The Icelandics native environment is actually much LESS harsh, the farmers mostly living in regions that stay relatively stable and never getting as cold as we get. Its the name Iceland that invokes arctic images. In the higher regions it is cold and desolate but thats not inhabited for the most part.
Soon you will be an Icelandic FANATIC!
Daria, You will be fine. how do you add moisture to your incubator?
Andy in Fredericksburg
there is a well (for lack of a better term) thru the entire bottom of the bator.
BTW Andy, how much cold protection do you use for your Icelandic's? I am guessing they dont need much with the central TX weather. I think I spent a total of 10 days over the winter below freezing. And that never lasts for long.
It's going to be 89 here today
Daria,
I am guessing those are Hovabators then. I have one like it, as well as a Sears round tin incubator that used a metal bowl for water. One suggestion I have is heat the water before filling the well. if the water is 99.5 to 100.5 there will be less fluctuation in overall temp. And if you can get some use distilled water. I osed only covering, as in shed and chicken house during the winter, no heating. We had some very cold days here, records, like 9* which in a place where many houese are uninsulated is painful. We never got our place heated above 53 with central heat, bathroom heaters, the stove and plug in radiator heaters running full time. The Icelandics native environment is actually much LESS harsh, the farmers mostly living in regions that stay relatively stable and never getting as cold as we get. Its the name Iceland that invokes arctic images. In the higher regions it is cold and desolate but thats not inhabited for the most part.
Soon you will be an Icelandic FANATIC!
