Idaho?

[La Casa de Pollo]

Chickenstock--1st weekend in May, Saturday, in Idaho Falls. A new thread should be started for it soon...

 

[Swamp Dawg]

Thanks for the lead Odelia. I spoke with Ms. Chickenhill this morning and it looks like she will hook me up in a few weeks. I'm happy to find a local chicken source.

 

[Swamp Dawg]

Thanks for your help this morning Tisha. Looking forward to your call in a few weeks.

 

[cmknight]

Hi. I just found this thread. I'm from Ashton, Idaho (about 55 miles north of Idaho Falls). I am a newbie at hatching eggs and have about 30 good ones incubating right now. I will have 4 staggered hatches. I am at 5400 elevation. Does anyone know if there are different humidity requirements at this altitude. I bought all but 8 on Ebay from breeders in Fla, Ga and Tn. I have 3 hygrometers that all read very different after calibration with the salt method (very frustrating). The air sacks are too big for the time in the incubator so I think the last hygrometer was correct and I may have been incubating at 10% instead of 40% for the first 14 days, 12 days, 10 days and 6 days (4 staggered hatches). Any suggestions for what to do now? I have increased the humidity so the one hygrometer now reads 40% instead of 10%. The other ones are reading up over 55% now (ripping hair out!!). I can see chicks bouncing around in some of the eggs and fear I have given them a shrink wrapped death sentence. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Here's my advice. Don't worry too much about it. My first hatch was some quail eggs. I followed everything I had read and stressed over the temp and humidity being perfect. I hatched 5 out of 8 eggs. On my next hatch, I didn't change anything from my previous hatch. I didn't try to regulate the temp at all. I just plugged in the incubator, put some pint size jars of water in it, and put my eggs in. I made sure the humidity was around 40-50%. Temp stayed around 95-105*. I turned them twice a day, sometimes only once because I would forget. My hatch rate was the same.

Think about the way it is in nature. The hen has to get up once in a while to feed and drink. The temp and humidity it going to fluctuate. Birds have hatched for thousands of years without our help. I just try to keep the average temp around 100* and humidity around 40% all the way from day one to hatch. I've been successful.

 

[YorkieLove]

Sorry I am editing my original post. After much thought and some research at this time I am looking for Silkie or Sizzle hatching eggs. If anyone can help me out I would so appreciate it. I don't need many at all just 3 or 4 would be fine up to 10. Thank you so much.

 

[bigbuddha09]

where are you located near boise area?

 

[YorkieLove]

Yes I am in the boise area. I am willing to travel to surrounding areas also.

 

[MeAndTheBoyz]

betcha didn't know my son, Daniel Flatt is famous! He won a coloring contest and now his crayola art is featured on note cards for the IBBA! Own a piece of artistic history (actually, 10 of them) for ONLY $5 + $2 for shipping! (All proceeds go to the Youth Program of the Idaho Bird Breeders Association) Daniel might even autograph one if you ask nicely

 

[Chickenhill]

I am looking for some Silkie, or bantam or any small breed hatching eggs. We just successfully hatched 8 out of 11 we put in lockdown and these were all EE and EE mixes. I have one Silkie girl who I would like to hatch out some more silkie or small breed because she is such a sweet heart.

Not sure if you are interested Wyandotte Bantams. We have some extra eggs this week...

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

betcha didn't know my son, Daniel Flatt is famous! He won a coloring contest and now his crayola art is featured on note cards for the IBBA! Own a piece of artistic history (actually, 10 of them) for ONLY $5 + $2 for shipping! (All proceeds go to the Youth Program of the Idaho Bird Breeders Association) Daniel might even autograph one if you ask nicely

That is sooo Awesome! Congrats on the celeb in the family!!