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

[LocalYokel]

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checked out my scrap pile in my barn. Lots of fun parts and pieces out there. Coolerbator would be easy but this is stuff I don't have to pay for to make more incubators.
The oven

An electric grill

And 3 furnaces

We bought this place from a hoarder so I have no idea if anything works, but I would love some ideas on how to reuse parts or all of these things before we scrap them this summer. I am eager to learn.

I say the oven and furnaces are prime

Maybe you could rig a microwave turner in the grill

I know how the fever hits, suddenly everything is a prospective bator!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I didn't know about the kerosene and linseed oil

I'm so sorry. I got the mix wrong.

It's 2 parts linseed oil to 1 part kerosene.
You can also do 1 part kerosene to 2 parts A&D ointment.

ETA
I think the oil or ointment serve to coat/smother and kerosene does the killing.
That's a guess on my part but the treatment isn't a guess.

 

[LocalYokel]

[COLOR=FF0000]I'm so sorry. I got the mix wrong.[/COLOR]

It's 2 parts linseed oil to 1 part kerosene.
You can also do 1 part kerosene to 2 parts A&D ointment.

Sweetness.
Out of ovates

 

[casportpony]

 

Plain water, I was just trying to get the excess scales off at the time.

That's not the appropriate course of action if it is truly scaly leg mite. You need to kill the mites and water won't do that.
I didn't know there was such a thing as excess scales. They are sticking up because there are mites under them. They aren't excess.

I think I read that removing the scales can lead to infection.

-Kathy

 

[prizepete]

Well, In Mt attempt at getting my serama hen to go broody, I Finally gave up yesterday, Threw out the eggs because they where getting old, and today when I go out to Feed Chickens, She is sitting there all Flat like a pancake, sitting on one, maybe two eggs

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I think I read that removing the scales can lead to infection.

-Kathy

I'm sure you're right. It would be akin to putting several slices in your legs and letting you walk around barefoot in chicken poop.

Well, In Mt attempt at getting my serama hen to go broody, I Finally gave up yesterday, Threw out the eggs because they where getting old, and today when I go out to Feed Chickens, She is sitting there all Flat like a pancake, sitting on one, maybe two eggs

You can't predict it or make it happen. It happens when it happens. Though it does happen more often from March to June in the Northern Hemisphere.

 

[stryker]

Well, In Mt attempt at getting my serama hen to go broody, I Finally gave up yesterday, Threw out the eggs because they where getting old, and today when I go out to Feed Chickens, She is sitting there all Flat like a pancake, sitting on one, maybe two eggs

LOL

,, I put 14 eggs under three broody hens lastnight. The hens were in different nest boxes..The hens just left the eggs.. They are going in the incubator tonight..

Good luck...

 

[LocalYokel]

Well, In Mt attempt at getting my serama hen to go broody, I Finally gave up yesterday, Threw out the eggs because they where getting old, and today when I go out to Feed Chickens, She is sitting there all Flat like a pancake, sitting on one, maybe two eggs

WTH

 

[LocalYokel]

LOL ,, I put  14 eggs under three broody hens lastnight. The hens were in different nest boxes..The hens just left the eggs.. They are going in the incubator tonight.. 
Good luck... 

Lmao

 

[campingshaws]

My hona pullet is trying to be broody. She's been making broody sounds for several days, and sleeping on the eggs at night. I'm thinking of giving her eggs back.