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

[BantyChooks]

Hi Bu. Wats up? You must remember that under the broody hen, all your calculation, and worry don't make any difference! And stil they can hatch very good!
So give them tha basick needs, and live them be!

Howdy Benny, ya always make me smile.

Yes, I really need to just calm it and ignore.

 

[Pensmaster]

Waiting

Let me find the tracking number!!!

 

[Chaos18]

Bubbles this is current setup. Rocks are in troughs under the wire.

 

[Pensmaster]

Bubbles, I have been using an old hovabator still air and run at 100-101 rocks or sealed containers of water help moderate temp swings, but I still see it rise to 102-103 for brief periods around the 10-14 day mark, then it seems to settle back again after an hour or so.
The older the thermostat, the more touchy they seem to be. Just my experiences, but any heat sink helps reduce fluctuations.

Good morning all!

Country, any possibility of running two timers and different lights? I run my morning light at two sixty watt bulbs that come on at 530 am, and my evening one with a 25 watt that comes on at 5 pm and turns off at 9. I get steady production from my EE's, OE's and Rocks throughout the winter with this set up. Not as good as spring and summer, but at -20 how can you blame the ladies for trying to conserve energy? Might be worth a shot with your flock

Using a can of air that ppl use for computers and blowing the thermostat off after each incubation helped me a lot when I used mine. I've since turned that styrofoam into a coolerbator and change to wafer thermostat although it's not perfect and I've got some tweaking to do its so much better now.

 

[BantyChooks]

Bubbles this is current setup. Rocks are in troughs under the wire.

Thanks.

 

[kwhites634]

I got home late one night to feed still time but they were already starting to roost. When I open door to feed one was missing. Argh then I heard rustling in the rafters. She had flown up to roost in the rafters completely ignoring the roost I built for them.

. Now they all roost there.

Do you run a light as well? I was concerned for country lovin's timing on the lights. Seemed to me just turning lights out at 8:30 without notice to the hens might mess with them

The only light I've ever used was for heat when I had a few month-old chicks in a fairly large brooder coop out back; was concerned that the body heat from only 3 chicks wouldn't be enough for them. Other than that, I'm pretty much of a "let Mother Nature do what she does best" kind of guy. Grown birds, depending on breed, don't need artificial heat to stay healthy, as long as they can get out of drafts & stay dry. The only exception, IMO, would be if there were too few birds to generate sufficient body heat. I have 6 RSL's in a 3'4 insulated coop where temps get down into single digits overnight, and they do just fine. Egg production does go down in the winter when natural light is shortest, but I believe they benefit from the rest, just as in nature.

There you have my 2 cents worth of input; use it or not as you wish.

 

[BullChick]

@kwhites634
@Sally Sunshine
Didn't you say you wanted to see a video of me breaking an egg on my forehead?

Oops. That's Duckling doing it.

 

[kwhites634]

Ceasar had his Brutus, Charles the first had his Cromwell, Sally had her duct tape, and Bubbles had her bator lid, huh?

I really aint sure at this point, I'm just quotin whuts told me so all feedback is much appriciated.


I think maybe I'll add rocks, finish meddling with the thermometers, get temp to 101, turn on the egg turner, and walk away.
I think I am obcessing a little too much an' need to

, right?

You're no kin to CH, are you?

 

[Pensmaster]

The only light I've ever used was for heat when I had a few month-old chicks in a fairly large brooder coop out back; was concerned that the body heat from only 3 chicks wouldn't be enough for them.  Other than that, I'm pretty much of a "let Mother Nature do what she does best" kind of guy. Grown birds, depending on breed, don't need artificial heat to stay healthy, as long as they can get out of drafts & stay dry. The only exception, IMO, would be if there were too few birds to generate sufficient body heat. I have 6 RSL's in a 3'4 insulated coop where temps get down into single digits overnight, and they do just fine. Egg production does go down in the winter when natural light is shortest, but I believe they benefit from the rest, just as in nature. 

There you have my 2 cents worth of input; use it or not as you wish.

X2 I agree and don't run lights for the same reason. I was hoping to give @country lovinsome info on using lights.
Besides the roosters wake up here early enough without being kicked out of bed.

 

[BantyChooks]

You're no kin to CH, are you?  

No!
I can't help it if I am a worrywart.... But I dont got candleitis....