im setting my eggs in my homemade bator at 12 enyone with me ? :D

[Daniel_2kaii9]

what kind of incubator chicken boy sam ?

cooler/plastic/wood...etc lol ?

~Daniel

 

[chicken boy sam]

Here's the link to my incubator topic.... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=358327 I'm stuck on how big I should make it. How much space do you think a 52 watt light bulb can heat the correct temperature of 101 degrees? I'm going to have my brother help me quite a bit because he's the only one that can because he's a 4-H'er, too.

 

[incubatingisfun]

cool i want to build an incubator and i also want to get into animal 4-H im already in 4-H for robotics but im more into animals.
this is my 7th time incubating eggs

 

[chicken boy sam]

My brother is also in the 4-H for robotics, although they're the only team in the county's 4-H...Our 4-H is almost ALL animals, there's a whole barn at the fair for llamas and Alpacas (it's all one HUGE club), and then there's a whole other barn for cows, goats, sheep, pigs, and poultry. All the projects are mainly about animals. I'm actually starting to make my incubator tonight!!!! I'm SOOOOOO egg-cited!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[incubatingisfun]

that sounds awsome

 

[chicken boy sam]

Yea...I've had enough of chickens for today, apparently I left the door unlatched and it blew open. 4 out of 12 stayed in, while the other 6 leghorns, flighty as always, 1 polish, super docile, and 1 buff orpington, just a little skittish and it took me my dad and my mom 15 minutes to successfully catch them into their coop.

 

[incubatingisfun]

mine have done that legorns espeacily

 

[chicken boy sam]

I know....I HATE my leghorns!!!!!!!! I raised 16 sexed chicks as my first batch (I didn't get to choose what breed) and out of the 16, 10 were males. And the hens that were left are all mean to my 2 bantams and all of my polish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[incubatingisfun]

i know they are such jerks they used to pick on my other chickens my hens hated them and i hated them they say they are so nice and cuddly but in my opinion they are the meanest chickens and guess were they are now my friends freezer

 

[chicken boy sam]

hahahahah lol. I ALMOST got rid of one because it was eating 1-2 eggs out of the nesting box every day. And when you have only 11 chickens regularly laying, 1 that lays every other day, and one that's too young to lay, that's a lot of eggs!!!!

How's your hatch going Daniel_2kaii9 ???