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

[jwlpoultry]

Quote: Thats what I was thinking. Thanks for helping whites!!

 

[TJChickens]

I will have red golden pheasant eggs later on this spring if that helps.... @jwlpoultry

 

[attimus]

@Sally Sunshine If not for a bad cut, all pieces would have come from the 4x8' sheet. I just finished stripping some 1x1s off the 2x2 scraps from the pond fence. Sanded and ready to measure for the interior frame. I'm gonna get the plywood edges sanded down before work, then I'll think about putting it together over my weekend.

 

[Penny Hen]

Ok, I looked everywhere first (I know it is there I just can't find it). How do you set up the salt and water to test the hygrometer?

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Hatch is over. 15 hatched out of 18 in lockdown. I'm happy with that

 

[BantyChooks]

Ok, I looked everywhere first (I know it is there I just can't find it). How do you set up the salt and water to test the hygrometer?

This is from a cigar company, but it works for incubating too!

Place a teaspoon of salt in a bottle cap or small cup and dampen it with a few drops of water (without dissolving it).
Carefully place the wet salt and the hygrometer inside a see-through container and close tightly. You can use a zip lock bag provided it seals well and you leave some air inside as well.
Let it sit for at least 6 hours and note the reading on the hygrometer without opening the container. The hygrometer should should read 75%. The difference is how much your hygrometer is off. For example, if your hygrometer reads 70% during the salt method test this means that to obtain the real humidity level you should add 5 points.
If you have an analog hygrometer, you can correct the reading. You will need to adjust the needle to the 75% mark by turning the screw on the back using a small screwdriver. Your hygrometer is now ready to be placed inside your humidor.

 

[kwhites634]

Hatch is over. 15 hatched out of 18 in lockdown. I'm happy with that

 

[TJChickens]

Sooooo.....Here's why I haven't been on here in awhile....





Finally got pictures of the darn cat. Bad part is, I'm not working fast enough to keep ahead of this problem and he tore up Tobin's porcelain d'Uccle pen and ate every bird!

It's taken me awhile to feel like posting this news on here. I off and on have a USDA sniper camping out on a rooftop next to the pens so I can sleep, I have a lion trap set, and I'm trying to get my husband to agree to taking up the offer of an Anatolian to guard at night. The Dobermans are great during the day, but this cat is very wiley and tip toes in when everybody is asleep. I did not hear a thing when he killed Tobin's birds. I think I had gotten too sleep deprived and actually went to sleep with both ears and both eyes closed for a few hours....As it stands now, we caught sight of him a few nights ago, he had been climbing all over one of the Sebright pens..couldn't get a clear shot, so fired anyways just to scare him. I have not seen him since. Don't know how long before he'll be back. That's why I'm opting for a night dog. I need to sleep better and worry less. Can't watch all the time and can't watch the entire ranch.

That's what I've been doing! Also husband goes for radiation treatments every other day, but will be done with that next week.
I am trying terribly to find some replacement d'Uccles for Tobin....We will be getting some eggs from wonderful people who bought and hatched eggs from our birds. So eventually he will have some of his own bloodlines back. And one egg from the dead birds is in the incubator. They had just started laying and that' was the first fertile egg....If anybody knows any adults for sale please let me know.

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[Saris]

Sooooo.....Here's why I haven't been on here in awhile....





Finally got pictures of the darn cat. Bad part is, I'm not working fast enough to keep ahead of this problem and he tore up Tobin's porcelain d'Uccle pen and ate every bird!

It's taken me awhile to feel like posting this news on here. I off and on have a USDA sniper camping out on a rooftop next to the pens so I can sleep, I have a lion trap set, and I'm trying to get my husband to agree to taking up the offer of an Anatolian to guard at night. The Dobermans are great during the day, but this cat is very wiley and tip toes in when everybody is asleep. I did not hear a thing when he killed Tobin's birds. I think I had gotten too sleep deprived and actually went to sleep with both ears and both eyes closed for a few hours....As it stands now, we caught sight of him a few nights ago, he had been climbing all over one of the Sebright pens..couldn't get a clear shot, so fired anyways just to scare him. I have not seen him since. Don't know how long before he'll be back. That's why I'm opting for a night dog. I need to sleep better and worry less. Can't watch all the time and can't watch the entire ranch.

That's what I've been doing! Also husband goes for radiation treatments every other day, but will be done with that next week.
I am trying terribly to find some replacement d'Uccles for Tobin....We will be getting some eggs from wonderful people who bought and hatched eggs from our birds. So eventually he will have some of his own bloodlines back. And one egg from the dead birds is in the incubator. They had just started laying and that' was the first fertile egg....If anybody knows any adults for sale please let me know.

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Oh that's so scary.

I'm not usually an advocate of poison but are you allowed to go that route?

 

[TJChickens]

Here's my incubation report... @Sally Sunshine

Only one of the Guinea eggs was fertile and it's developing in the mind reader bator (what am I going to do with one Guinea?!) along with 2 Serama eggs from my silkied Seramas and Tobin's one porcelain d'Uccle egg.
In the R-com are 13 shipped Serama eggs from two sources.