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

[country lovin]

Does it do Celcius?

Yes

 

[LocalYokel]

For a styro, hard to top a Hova bator

X2

 

[LocalYokel]

Almost 100 pages behind!!!! Yikes! How has everyone been!!!???

Good!

Still got the Koozie or ya give it away?!?!

 

[LocalYokel]

Nope.
Never too old

 

[LocalYokel]

Yes

Set to 37.5 Celcius

 

[fire370]

What a day. Had feeding chores done by sun up. And then decided to build another overflow coop. 4 or 5 months ago I came up with a never used shipping crate for free, just had to go pick it up. It measured 16' long x 3.5' wide x 3' tall with 16' x 3' dividers on the inside spaced at 6", all 3/4 plywood. Base was (3) 2x4 skidders, 4x4 spacers and then a 2x6 floor. Stripped the crate and split the floor at 8' and tied them together making a 7'x8' floor. Leveled it out on blocks and went to town on it. It is complete and already has chickens roosting in it. Then we got a very good start on getting everybody split back up and into their breeding pens. Still got a little work left to do there tomorrow. Needless to say, I'm gonna hit the drink.

 

[kwhites634]

The pennies resist bacterial growth, pre 82 coppers


Yessa.
has no channels in the bottom of the styro.
it's flat except for a drain hole.
The tray/liner does the water

I'm surprised there's such a difference in the same model; mine has 3 channels molded into the bottom. Does your lid set down in the top edge, or over it? Mine fits inside; PITA to remove. Thinking of installing a handle on top if it won't interfere with anything inside...haven't scoped it out yet.

 

[LocalYokel]

What a day. Had feeding chores done by sun up. And then decided to build another overflow coop. 4 or 5 months ago I came up with a never used shipping crate for free, just had to go pick it up. It measured 16' long x 3.5' wide x 3' long with 16' x 3' dividers on the inside spaced at 6", all 3/4 plywood. Base was (3) 2x4 skidders, 4x4 spacers and then a 2x6 floor. Stripped the crate and split the floor at 8' and tied them together making a 7'x8' floor. Leveled it out on blocks and went to town on it. It is complete and already has chickens roosting in it. Then we got a very good start on getting everybody split back up and into their breeding pens. Still got a little work left to do there tomorrow. Needless to say, I'm gonna hit the drink.

Fricken Sweet King!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Why did Bama get the ban?

Thank you! I am hopeful for their recovery as well.

Bama was banned for posting and messing with CH on this thread. I feel guilty too, Bama was drinking and saying to CH to mess with him, and it looked pretty bad, then he and shellee got into it I guess and shells didnt know bama well and was downhill from there, we all know bama just messes around and is harmless. Sucks cause he really is a character and helpful, but he knows he was an azz about it. He drank too much not a good combo. lessons learned? idk

Quote: CH!!! your bator acted up with temps since first hatch!!
you want me to go pull all those posts of yours????? nevermind not worth the time, but your thinking wrong again!! its not your bator its your room, told you to clean your closet and put it in there again!!!!

Just dropping by to see you all. Sally, I hope you feel better today. Thank you for taking the time to post those links for me.

I'm my coolerbator is it better to set the thermostat at 101 and click back on at 100 or set it at 100 and have it click back on at 99? It does not go in .5 increments.

I always run 100-101 you know that!!! I never see 99 unless its lockdown

Quote: I will go !!!!! @lindalouly

I might be able to do the EHAL

Im getting my incubator on 3/2!!

Quote: UPDATE @gotro17

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it was funny!

Does anyone have a Magic Fly incubator? Please tell me What you liked and disliked about it. It holds 10 eggs. Thanks.

nope sorry!! see you have the links! try amazon and reading the ratings from peoples?

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Quote: ohhhhh like hot choco too?

I haven't been on much lately... and I miss chatting with everyone here!!!

Too much stuff going on, but I'm hopefully catching up! Here's a pic of my current (chicken-related) project... which is near completion. It's set up so I can divide it into 3 separate breeding pens, or use it as a single 100 square foot pen. My next step is to install 3 separate doors on the front of the coop, so each section can be accessed individually when the dividers are in.



PS: It took over 5 minutes to upload this pic. Now I have to go do what I promised to do... cook supper. TTYL!!!

Got them switched to a bigger home

And yet this is where they hang

awwwwww they are loving that room!!! I would love to see them close up, they blue?

Hi All, I threw 2 more hygrometers in my first incubator. Temps are steady at 100 to 101. Which to me is too high, for a 'bator with a fan. The temps in the "hatcher" are running at 99. MULTIPLE hygrometers. How can my temps be too low to cause my chicks to hatch late, or not at all?. 20 dead out of 20 set is a little extreme.

Again MY eggs hatch with no trouble, even though they hatch day 21 - 22. I've had no heat spikes, my humidity jumps around, but nothing extreme and we are very careful the last few days. I want to try to crack into these eggs to see if anyone is still alive. Should I, or should I just leave them alone ANOTHER DAY with no movement, no pips and no zipping? I'm on day 24 right now.

Thanks!

I havent a clue, that temp didnt do it.

Just finished my day 14 candling. The 2 "suspect" eggs from day 10 are early quitters and removed. Still have 23 eggs going strong. The 320 Lumens is strong enough to see chicks and movement in the dark shells - I cannot see blood vessels in some of the darkest shells, but I can still see the development and movement. Lockdown on Wednesday

Quick question:

I had one suspect egg when I candled that I couldn't tell if there was the start of a blood ring or veins. Will it be OK (if it is a dud) sitting in the bator until day 14? Or is there a chance of it exploding?

let them in until 10-14 candle

 

[LocalYokel]

I'm surprised there's such a difference in the same model; mine has 3 channels molded into the bottom. Does your lid set down in the top edge, or over it? Mine fits inside; PITA to remove. Thinking of installing a handle on top if it won't interfere with anything inside...haven't scoped it out yet.

Down in it.

Rounded edges.

Not Square.

Is yers more boxish than roundish?

They did make this model fer DECADES, and now they make it in 1602 etc

The early one were channels in the bottom, although mine is aged. they stopped selling the 2362 new im pretty sure