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

[mrleeroy]

Howdy Leeroy...what's shakin' ?

Not a whole heck of a lot. I've found about 10 of those boat trailers you were looking for... Problem is they all had nice boats on them and they all wanted $1500+ for them. How have you been?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Can I get a pole of what people think is the most beautiful non-bantam chicken breed (the hen not the rooster) I started a thread but didn't get much response on it. Thanks guys!

For eye candy, Norwegian Jaerhon, Appenzeller Spitzhauben, Yokohama, Fayoumi, Mottled Houdan, Tolbunt Polish.

For me, the beauty also lies in it's function. Except for the Jaerhon, Fayoumi and perhaps Spitzhauben, I probably wouldn't own any of those strictly for the eye candy function.

Well I floated some quail eggs today. They have blue shells and you can't see inside. After settling down from bobbing from being placed in the water half of them were dead still. The other half rotated either left or right in slow spins. I eggtopsied the still ones and they were all dead. I left the spinners in for another day. We'll see.

Thanks for that. Better explanation than I've heard. I figured to mean anything, it had to be done at a specific period during incubation.

I am in love with a new (to me) chicken breed that is ungodly expensive. The misery!!!!
The Orust. Its so pretty!!!

Probably very hard to find as well.

Went to lockdown yesterday with 45 eggs out of 48, yesterday afternoon we had severe weather and lost electricity for 5 hrs and my bator temp went down to 78 degrees. Any hope on my eggs to hatch?

At that point they can handle short temperature extremes better. Likely internal egg temperature wasn't that cold.
This should help
http://www.brinsea.com/Articles/Advice/PowerOff.aspx
In the future, I'd build a fire to heat some rocks or sand, put those in a box and prop the incubator above that heated base.

Hey, I have a question bc I'm really concerned about my eggs. I have a homemade incubator. Just made another one in hopes that it works better... Well, what happens was the temp got way too high, so I unplugged the light; I forgot about it and it got down to 77 degrees! I candled my eggs and they seem to be growing and normal. My new incubator seems to be keeping a better temp (99/100) and humidity (about 60) so I'm hoping them getting too cold didn't hurt them. I started incubation Saturday night so this would be about the 4th or 5th day. I'm SO WORRIED that I killed my babies! Had this ever happened to anyone?! Did ANY survive? These are Legbar eggs (12 cost me $12) so it's really important that they live! Do you want candled pics? Please let me know if this happened to any of you.

Not likely a big issue during the first week. WAAY better than too high.
Please read this.
http://www.brinsea.com/Articles/Advice/PowerOff.aspx

Hola gang & fellow hatchacholics.

COchix reporting for hatching action.

picked up 1 doz. of my hatching eggs from a friend, here is my set up. Had a few questions.



1. Should I be worried about the rooms humidity that things the eggs and bator are in? I have the blinds shut, door closed. It's a colder room In the house. It is currently 64 degrees and 35% humidity.Lights on or off? Am I being too picky? Worried mama

2. Got the main bator up and running with two hygrometers. It is a Farmer Innovators 4200 with fan and electric turner. The eggs are on the turner sitting on the base of my extra bator at room temp. I need to find out the egg dates but my guess is less than 7 days. Got the turner running, should it be? Drove down a fairly bumpy farm dirt road, I kid you not. Then to the main road. Should I be adding water to the main bator now? I am running it overnight, it has been completely dismantled and disinfected and reassembled. I ran it after that for 3 days dry and marked my knob on the bator. Picking up more hatching eggs tomorrow that are 7 days old and have been on a turner. I was hoping to integrate (assuming thing are all running smoothly) eggs into turner. Then set eggs tomorrow night or Friday am? Suggestions on timing, I am a newbie

Thanks gang......

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Lights don't matter, so off. It's pretty dark under a hen.
Ambient conditions are important. A more humid room is usually better. Stable temperatures are most important so I keep mine in the cellar. However that's not ideal.
Optimally, the warmest room in the house is best if the temperature is stable. It is much cheaper to heat a small room with gas, than it is to heat an incubator in a cold room with electricity.

Personally, I like the wild-type coloration like a Welsummer or brown Leghorn. Or some colors of Ameraucana, I like the muffs and dark legs.

Spangled Orloff or Mahogany Faverolle.

 

[BullChick]

 

[mrleeroy]

Yestarday we had a deadly teror day! We are licking ouer wounds but I can ashore you that we will prevail! By the fact that I worked today, and I am spending time with you is the best prufe that the teror will NEVER defeat us!

Across the seas. I'm sorry to hear that

 

[Chaos18]

Are there any demands?

 

[BertandMary]

Will be trying my hand at this incubation business. Using an LG from TSC. I have a dozen Barred Rock going in this weekend. Been playing with it and following the advice I've found on the bater and the process of incubation. Good stuff on here. Thanks to all the experienced posters sharing the info.

 

[kwhites634]

Yestarday we had a deadly teror day! We are licking ouer wounds but I can ashore you that we will prevail! By the fact that I worked today, and I am spending time with you is the best prufe that the teror will NEVER defeat us!

Yestarday we had a deadly teror day! We are licking ouer wounds but I can ashore you that we will prevail! By the fact that I worked today, and I am spending time with you is the best prufe that the teror will NEVER defeat us!

How many years is it now that y'all been fighting over the same issue? Looks like the other side would have conceded the fact by now that they can't win this one.

 

[Chaos18]

How many years is it now that y'all been fighting over the same issue? Looks like the other side would have conceded the fact by now that they can't win this one.

Ever since Biblical times.

 

[BullChick]

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[mrleeroy]

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