and here he is day six
here he is day one
just hatched slw,s the 21,st cant wait to see them feather out they are beautiful birds the cocks look like a knight in armor with there bright silver hackles
just ask, as far as a styro goes the gqf 1588 hova is hard to beat its a dry hatchers dream set it and forget it i have seen hatch rates as good if not better than brinseas that cost 3 times as much. the brinsea Eco series are fine incubators with the addition of their humidity pump you have a really nice set up but its gonna set you back almost 600 bucks and for a table top incubator ? ahhh little to much for me to justify but people here have really good hatches with them for that kind of scratch the gqf digital sportsman is probably the best you can do for the money, i have had great hatches in my Colman coolerbator my son built in ffa class in school we had some 100% hatch rates with our own eggs and it was just a old metal cooler with two 40 watt bulbs and two snap disk thermostats wired in series i honestly believe knowing the process a egg needs to go through during incubation and hatching proper hygiene and method and the quality of the eggs at the time of setting are the true measure of success in hatch rates,, a better bator will do a better hands off job by taking care of all the variables the egg needs to go through during incubation but if all the other criteria are not followed hatch rates simply will not get any better,,,,,,just sayin
yea jac my slw,s are starting to fatten up im real happy i ended up with four healthy chicks im sure i have the building blocks for a start, two hens would be nice but a pair will get it done,,,,, oh oh i forgot to tell you my odd ball chick i think is a light sussex i had no white breeds in this set except the lights i had thought for sure i had them all marked LS on the crown of the eggs and culled them clear day 9 only had one iffy and it did not hatch but im telling you this guys white with a lil black wing barr so far ill know in a few weeks but they were the only white breed in the set Soooo??? lol
wao i always washed them before incubating thank you for the info
where abouts in the buckeye are ya chickenpoop?Mind if I join in? My eggs are due to hatch June 2nd!
Sounds like my BIG incubator I made. But is styro coole,r 2 light fixures. 1 thermo and 1 pc fan. When I added stackable trays I did have to add a 2nd pc fan but it holds temps within 1 degree. All for honestly better than free. You could say I got paid for it. 100 lbs of scrap recycled =$7 I paided $1 for the scrap parts. Kept thermo recycled rest. Bulbs cost me $1.49 for four. Everything else I had on hand. So I got paid around $4-$5 to make it in the long run. LOL can't beat that. Well can if I get a great hatch rate from it, lol on 1st set but am using like a cabinet style and hatching in LG's. Last month had 1/4 the hatch capacity or less.
it will get it done acre that old cooler bator we used did a great job I don't hatch like I used to when my kids were young my second oldest son was really into the birds he had over a 100 hens laying at any given time he was involved in 4 h poultry programs he did breeding and hatching projects egg production programs meat bird projects he enjoyed it as we all did I had eggs out the ying yang over 650 to 700 per week I could not sell or give them all away the high school kids used to come buy um for 50 cents a doz to egg stuff with lol I don't hatch anything like that these days I only keep about 50 -60 birds anymore just for my own enjoyment I still love to have them around my Saturday morning chicken tv show is still the best lol
