INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[mlm Mike]

for the deer! I am in is side today!

It's fine:

 

[Mirajane]

No deer.

Aww that sucks. I love deer and hunting. Got myself 4 mallard ducks and 8 Geese this season.

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Any ideas what this color pattern is? It is a buff/EE to a buff/EE.

Or this buff/EE over barred rock. It has a reddish bronze on head and striped on its wings.

That's the color pattern I'm going with, also!

Congratulations!

the big head is strange.

I don't see anything wrong with a big head. I get the big head all the time!!!

I've got a couple more pips too

YAY!!!

No deer.

Yes deer. I saw two this morning on my 2 am run...

Just messing with you, CH. Hope you get one before season ends!!!

It's fine:

How purdy!!! And the fawn isn't too bad, either!!!

 

[canadachickens]

Silver, I would drill three or four 3/4-1" holes along each of the top and bottom sides of the fridge. You can always cover them up, or fabricate plugs if you find that temp or humidity fluctuates too much during testing. And yes, I would suggest testing it before trying to hatch your first batch. Read Sally's article on page one about cabinet cooler bator and how she tested hers. She claims she over did it, but if you have followed any of her hatches with that unit, she has good success because she was patient and tested extensively. Just my two cents worth.

 

[fire370]

I would do about 4 - 3/4" holes.

 

[SilverHair]

I'm in no rush, heck I gotta finish the run and get the new coop built, time I got funds not so much

 

[Intothebuff]

Good!

The big head is rather strange, though.....

I think so too, but I will keep him and call him quazi and love him all the days of his life! We love strange here.

 

[lazy gardener]

working on this incubator, how many vent holes and located where,

Now, that is the eternal question for folks doing their own build! Lots of info out there re: thermostats, heat sources, methods of adding humidity. But precious little regarding ventilation. IMO, you should have a vent hole near the fan for drawing in fresh air. Then, any others (at least in my case) can be located to exhaust air from any places where that warm air seems to stagnate (warm spots). My bator was super easy to vent cause it was a styrofoam box 15" x 15". I put one by the fan. Then, I added one at the top b/c heat rises. Then, I tested it out and ended up taking a sharp pencil and making more vent holes here and there to help stabalize temp. I also ended up putting in some tin foil baffles to help direct air flow. You're just going to have to play around with it. You might try checking to see who has a purchased cabinet bator of similar size, and see what size and location their vent holes are.

Well the six 7-9 week old chick I put in the small backyard tractor survived. They were huddled a bit but not bad on the hay I put in the corner instead of on the roost, but it was 22 this morning and it is colder in the little coop than being in a dog crate in the big coop heated by all the big birds body heat. I know it stays warm in there since even at the teens outside last night the water stayed thawed in the coop.

Any suggestions for eggs you accidentally left out to freeze other than the pigs?

You got pigs? Any frozen eggs I get (and there are really very few as I'm always checking and gathering) get scrambled up and fed back to the flock. They'll get 1 frozen egg, 1 that looked funky inside, scrambled with some pizza and a few soggy strawberries this morning. They're gonna love that.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I got 4 milling around 65 yards out my back door.

what

 

[fire370]

Also, I make my own cabinets and I put 3 - 1" holes at the top and 3 - 1" holes at the bottom but yours is smaller. I put flappers over them so I can open/close as needed. Like I said, in your cabinet I would start with 4 - 3/4" holes and see where it leads you. If you don't have enough, you can make more. If you have too many, you can block them off.