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

[BantyChooks]

Great helpful thread!
I've been incubating for about 6 years now.  Last year was such a bust.  I only hatched 8 chicks, and then I put them in an enclosure without enough protection, and we had a massacre.  Only one chick survived.
Nobody tells you when get into birds that buying the birds is the cheapest part of it!!  I finally have the right setup.  I have a commercial coop, supposedly for 15 birds.  I have my seven layers there, and I just butchered down my 14 Dark Cornish roosters (4 1/2 month's old) to 5, so I have 11 birds.  There is enough room in the coop and enough birds to help survive winter temperatures.  After lots of buying and grabbing freebies these birds have a 12 x 30 ft enclosure (dog fencing) with a poultry netting roof.  The other "coop" is a makeshift building that DH built on top of a pallet, 4 x 5 x 5 high, with a rubber mat for the floor, and a makeshift roost from the handles of an old wheelbarrow. 12 x 12 dog fencing, wooden frame chicken wire roof, and outside is lined with chicken wire.  (Amazing how they can escape!) This is where I want to move the baby chicks out of the brooder, so, understandably, I won't be incubating until May.
My layers are 5 EE's and 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes.  The roosters are Dark Cornish.  Any guesses as to what the chicks this year will look like?

Welcome!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Okay,now just need some eggs my hens need to lay

 

[fire370]

CH, I just ran down the road to the neighbors house to take some pics. (Your welcome).... Anyway, I put a $4 computer fan in her little giant a year or two ago to help her out. I want to say it's a 44mm. It fit right inside of the elements. See pics. And also a pic of the phone charger we used. She hatches well over 80% with eggs she gets from me and a lot of times higher. You do not need a full 12v for that little styrofoam job. You just need to move air and not too much.

 

[SilverHair]

Ahhhhhhh, got an escapee in the yard, went to change the water and boom Mr. Cogbrun got past me, oook fine got the girls in the coop and the run door open, he'll go in or not I ain't chasing no chicken. gotts to get you guys some more pictures. I sit on the tail gate of the truck with a beer watching him, I'm easy dude I don't run after nuttin, bird or human.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

CH, I just ran down the road to the neighbors house to take some pics. (Your welcome).... Anyway, I put a $4 computer fan in her little giant a year or two ago to help her out. I want to say it's a 44mm. It fit right inside of the elements. See pics. And also a pic of the phone charger we used. She hatches well over 80% with eggs she gets from me. You do not need a full 12v for that little styrofoam job. You just need to move air and not too much.

we have a bunch of three and five volt out put plugs.

 

[kwhites634]

Ahhhhhhh, got an escapee in the yard, went to change the water and boom Mr. Cogbrun got past me, oook fine got the girls in the coop and the run door open, he'll go in or not I ain't chasing no chicken. gotts to get you guys some more pictures. I sit on the tail gate of the truck with a beer watching him, I'm easy dude I don't run after nuttin, bird or human.

Works for me!

 

[fire370]

we have a bunch of three and five volt out put plugs.

Use the 5v one. It may not feel like a lot of air but you are only trying to move a cubic foot of air. You don't need a whole lot to get it moving around. You'll be fine.

 

[fresnofarmer]

The 5v one should be fine

 

[fire370]

Oh and in case anybody cares, I don't but, I was just in Atwoods a little bit ago and they had the little giants and farm innovators still air jobbers for $30. Don't know if it is all over for the sale or just here.

 

[kwhites634]

Great helpful thread!
I've been incubating for about 6 years now. Last year was such a bust. I only hatched 8 chicks, and then I put them in an enclosure without enough protection, and we had a massacre. Only one chick survived.
Nobody tells you when get into birds that buying the birds is the cheapest part of it!! I finally have the right setup. I have a commercial coop, supposedly for 15 birds. I have my seven layers there, and I just butchered down my 14 Dark Cornish roosters (4 1/2 month's old) to 5, so I have 11 birds. There is enough room in the coop and enough birds to help survive winter temperatures. After lots of buying and grabbing freebies these birds have a 12 x 30 ft enclosure (dog fencing) with a poultry netting roof. The other "coop" is a makeshift building that DH built on top of a pallet, 4 x 5 x 5 high, with a rubber mat for the floor, and a makeshift roost from the handles of an old wheelbarrow. 12 x 12 dog fencing, wooden frame chicken wire roof, and outside is lined with chicken wire. (Amazing how they can escape!) This is where I want to move the baby chicks out of the brooder, so, understandably, I won't be incubating until May.
My layers are 5 EE's and 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes. The roosters are Dark Cornish. Any guesses as to what the chicks this year will look like?

I wouldn't trust chicken wire; if chicks can walk through it, a coon can reach through it to grab one. My run is also made from old dog panels. I used 1"x2" welded wire all around, fastened to the chain link, with a 12" apron on the ground & weighted down with 6' wooden fence posts. Not pretty, but it works. JMO