Incubators Anonymous

What do ya think? these may the the fluffiest things I've ever seen. Ummmmm, have never been a big "silkie" fan, but oh my word. Yiiiikes. The Partridge is gorgeous, but no pouf? Only one of them really has a pouf.
Oh, the Partridge is beautiful, such a fluffy cutie
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Well I still have the borrowed Sportsman. I borrowed it when an ebay shipment of eggs came in 2 wks early and I didn't have room, I was already going to be stacking. I figured since it is here I should put it to good use. Besides I needed to replace all the eggs that were in there during the storm/power outage. So I ordered replacement eggs, they are all in there. I am waiting on a variety shipment, and I am supposed to be finished for the year. But I noticed that a couple of my EE are laying a very nice BLUE egg, so I collected them and put 9 in the bator today, I added 6 nice large eggs from the free ranging flock, I always need nice large egg layers. But I have not ordered anything new
A friend called and asked if I had a couple of extra roos
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, in various sizes. She wants them for snake food, I have several older 3-5 mo olds but she said she needed smaller ones too, like as soon as I can tell they are roos and I don't need them. I looked in the brooder and I cant seem to tell if there are any SBEL roos, they all look the same to me. The 2 black BLRW are looking like roos and I already have a nice blue roo, I need pullets!
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I may need to find some and try again
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DON'T you feed those SBEL to snakes!
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The roos really show early. They get a big red comb pretty quick..... come to think of it, I don't think I have had many SBEL roo...... I need to look. But by 3-4 weeks I can tell, sometimes 2 weeks. Pics will help.... they also should have 3 ridges that are pink. WL roos get HUGE combs early and they seem to have that trait in the SBEL too.

BTW I thought about that option until I had a guy call and want to take all my roos
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I may have to resort to that in the fall but we will see.
 
I am giving up on the Little Giant incubators. My first batch - not one hatched. Second batch - the darn incubator keeps spiking temps off and on. I gave up and ordered a Brinsea Octagon 20 ex yesterday. I'm so disappointed.
Sorry the LG isn't working out for you. I use it as a hatcher, because my homemade holds so many eggs. I've had good hatches from both my LG and my homemade.
 
With gas prices, might be easier to ship.
that might be debatable... it cost almost $90 to have a trio of bantam cochins shipped almost as far... dorkings being heavier than cochins, and larger, would need bigger box(es) and the shipping would be more. overall, for more than 1 or 2 birds, a drive would be more cost efficient. even in my gas guzzling dodge 1500 (v8), at 15mpg highway, that's about $60 for 300 miles (just filled it up, so i know. LOL)

and the birds wouldn't be subjected to us postal abuses either...
 
You mean on hatching day, just move them to the Little Giant? Or how would you do it?
put them in the LG at lockdown. if i have overlapping hatches, i will vary the day i put eggs in the hatcher, 2-4 days prior to hatch, rather than the standard 3 days. and if some are hatching when others go lockdown then i'll put them in when i take chicks out, to minimize the time it's openned.

i don't worry much about opening it prior to hatch, as long as nobody's pipped. then i just dampen some of the paper towel on the bottom to bring humidity back up quickly.
 
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Quote: If she dips down in to Nashville she can get gas for $3.11 a gall.... maybe cheaper. My car gets nearly 500 miles to a tank of 18 gal. Fill up before you go and on your way back at the cheapest gas and you have saved even more...... It only cost about $60 to fill up AND you would have gas left.... maybe only $40 in my car.

What every happened to the chicken, egg train idea we had a LONG time ago? ..... I digress..... she wants eggs NOT chickens
 
Quote: If she dips down in to Nashville she can get gas for $3.11 a gall.... maybe cheaper. My car gets nearly 500 miles to a tank of 18 gal. Fill up before you go and on your way back at the cheapest gas and you have saved even more...... It only cost about $60 to fill up AND you would have gas left.... maybe only $40 in my car.

What every happened to the chicken, egg train idea we had a LONG time ago? ..... I digress..... she wants eggs NOT chickens
YEs, but if she;s picking up eggs, she might as well get a trio while she's there. Better use of gas money . . .. right?
 

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