INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[Indyshent]

Looking forward to getting Sweetie, Pancake and another turkey lady friend for Jake Jake from @jchny2000 tomorrow (provided everything goes as planned). Missed having the first two around and looking forward to getting to know this new young lady, and the pair of OEG. I've seen them before, and they're such lovely, good natured birds.

I'd intended to get out of birds entirely, but she was looking to downsize, too, and this us just what happens when that happens!

If I get back into chickens (for serious again, not just to keep turkeys company and pretty up the yard, y'know), I'm thinking about which breed to possibly get back into. Not sure which ones I miss the most in retrospect. I've enjoyed Rocks, Welsummers, Orpingtons, Brahmas, and Wyandottes the most, probably. EE and Leghorns have their perks too. I don't want feathered feet and single combs though because the guys always seem to get frostbite and feathered shanks attract parasites, frostbite, feather-picking, and mud like crazy. The Wyandottes I got from RK were actually fantastic layers and a lot of company, even if they weren't lap birds.

 

[JanetMarie]

@JanetMarie
Are those your legs are in the background?

What?? Those are too skinny to be my legs...

 

[JanetMarie]

...these are my legs.

 

[JanetMarie]

Welcome to our thread!

What type geese do you keep, mine aren't laying yet!

One Chinese goose. Her first egg was mid February. Have one Cotton Patch gander too.

 

[Indyshent]

I have a question for people that use a cabinet style incubator for hatching.

I built a wooden cabinet incubator this winter. Lined the inside with foil insulation, fans to circulate air from the top to the bottom, etc.

My question is this: do you incubate and then hatch in the same cabinet or do you have a separate cabinet for hatching? If you hatch in the same unit, how do you control humidity?

I'm considering putting a plastic tray/tub on the
bottom shelf and hatching right in the cabinet I built, but i didn't know if I could raise humidity enough in one section on the cabinet for hatching and keep the eggs that are not ready to hatch healthy and growing.

I'll see if I have a picture to attach of what I built.

Thanks for any advice you might have
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I want this thing sooooo bad.

Mice actually chewed through all the Styrofoam of my incubator this winter, so needless to say, I'm ticked off and won't be hatching except by broody this year. Its guts are good, but the shell is full of holes.

I don't have enough birds and certainly not of a good enough quality to warrant something that swanky but a girl can dream, right?

What's in the bottom? Why can't it be used as the hatcher? Wouldn't suggest the hatcher being on top with the fans, but you could put it at the bottom like most cabinet incubators. Humidity falls with gravity, so the bottom will have more usually (like in your fridge)

 

[Indyshent]

As it turned out, both if Kate's (the OEG hen) flockmates were killed by hawks, so the poor girl is the only chicken here. The turkeys have all settled in marvelously, and the girls have been dustbathing with great gusto in every earthy depression and heap of DE and PDZ they could find since they arrived. Jake Jake has been a happy, strutting boy, too! He's still got to figure out how to mate right, but he'll figure it out soon with all these ladies to practice on!

Tried to get some pictures, but they've turned out awful. Will have to try with a better camera. Couldn't get any of Kate. She's way too traumatized to sit still. Pancake is the bronze hen, Sweetie is the obe-eyed White Holland, I'm not sure if the Chocolate Bourbon looking girl has a name yet (but she'll get one quick if she doesn't!)

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

Newbie here from NE Indiana. Found this site last Saturday and spent so much time here already! This site is addicting!
Attached a pic of two of our new babies we bought at RK.

I am in NE Indiana too!

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

Welcome fellow Indiana'er!!
The site has wonderful people ready to help, and no one judges you on how crazy you can be or obsessed with poultry! I'll be going to TSC in hopes of new fluffy chicks and ducklings!

Did you get any?

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

I just hit 1000 likes! WOOOHOOO! lol
ANd Just hit 1000 posts!
Went to TSC sadly no chicks not even ducklings!

Oh boo. My tsc is lacking too. Rural king seems to have a lot though.

 

[Nyla]

They have chicks today!!!! Just got their shipments, but sadly didn't have a babysitter!!

Then when I did have one, TSC was closed and I ended up at Walmart where they had a toddler bed on sale and I couldn't resist. So I bought a paw patrol toddler bed instead on chicks. My son loves his new bed! I'll try to sneak a picture of him on it. He likes to hide from the camera!

Oh boo. My tsc is lacking too. Rural king seems to have a lot though.