"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[TerriLaChicks]

I try to keep mine at 40% . I'm new to hatching all info is appreciated. Here is pics of the olive eggers Ron calls muffits he says they remind them of beaker.

Those are hilarious! I just love their topknots!

 

[topdog24]

Hi all, just wanted to introduce myself in this thread. I am RodneyCrypto's girlfriend Casey in Metairie. Thanks for all the useful info. I will be posting a thread once I have pictures for help with sex identification to our flock. Wish we were going to the big show in Baton Rouge tomorrow, but my boyfriends sister gets married tomorrow night and we leave for vacation the next morning.

from central LA.

 

[topdog24]

Here's the olive egger. Tomorrow I'll post new ones this in a month or so old. This is legbar hen x with BCMaren rooster. I wonder if you had BCM hen over CCL rooster if you get the same look and color eggs. Pam

Maybe I can cross my CL with a friends FBCM hen and find out, those are some nifty looking pullets you have

to hatch something soon, ugghhaa, I can barely stand it, I don't care about the results as much as the fact of creating anything to get a start and get a hatch under my belt, I can always use more layers. I must say again, those are really cool looking Xs.

 

[Ron Skekel]

Maybe I can cross my CL with a friends FBCM hen and find out, those are some nifty looking pullets you have to hatch something soon, ugghhaa, I can barely stand it, I don't care about the results as much as the fact of creating anything to get a start and get a hatch under my belt, I can always use more layers. I must say again, those are really cool looking Xs.

Thanks! You have the fever, lol! I must say it was fun to hatch my own. They seemed to be more vigorous than chicks that I bought from a hatchery. Pam

 

[Ron Skekel]

Hi all, just wanted to introduce myself in this thread. I am RodneyCrypto's girlfriend Casey in Metairie. Thanks for all the useful info. I will be posting a thread once I have pictures for help with sex identification to our flock. Wish we were going to the big show in Baton Rouge tomorrow, but my boyfriends sister gets married tomorrow night and we leave for vacation the next morning.

 

[Ron Skekel]

I like to keep it around 28, on the dry side. Don't like it over 30 until closer to lockdown.

Do you have better hatches on the dry side? The booklet that came with the incubator says 40 to 50 for poultry but I think experience is more reliable than the booklet.

 

[LindaB220]

Thank you for that Linda plus pointing out the thread. I didn't know it existed. This forum is so huge.
The info is still a bit over my head. Cody

If you don't have time to read it all at once, go back 50 pages and read up to date and join in and tell what you are doing and interested in. Good people. Fred is so smart.

 

[LindaB220]

I like to keep it around 28, on the dry side. Don't like it over 30 until closer to lockdown.

Right on!!!! I go for 25 to 30%. And bump it up to 50 or so at lockdown. May add a little more if needed. I leave my caps off at all times.

 

[LindaB220]

Hi all, just wanted to introduce myself in this thread. I am RodneyCrypto's girlfriend Casey in Metairie. Thanks for all the useful info. I will be posting a thread once I have pictures for help with sex identification to our flock. Wish we were going to the big show in Baton Rouge tomorrow, but my boyfriends sister gets married tomorrow night and we leave for vacation the next morning.

Hi Casey, have fun at the wedding. Show are always there, but weddings.........

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Do you have better hatches on the dry side? The booklet that came with the incubator says 40 to 50 for poultry but I think experience is more reliable than the booklet.

I sure do. I found out about it several years ago when I got some eggs from a BYC-er in Florida, gee can't even remember her name right off - she told me she went to dry incubation when her whole family came down w/the flu & for 2 weeks everybody, including her, were sicker than dogs---- she wandered past her utility room one day & heard cheeping -- had totally forgot she had chicks in a bator in there -- her bator was bone dry & had been for several days, but they were hatching & jumping around on the still-tilting turner like it was a carnival ride -- great hatch & healthy. I had had problems up to that point with "sticky chicks" hatching w/bits of shell still sticking & losing some in the shell & I gave it some thought -- look at how our humidity here fluctuates -- the very atmosphere here is unsettled humidity. I ran low humidity my next hatch & voila! great hatch & no sticky chicks. So I've done it that way ever since.

I think everybody needs to find the method that works best for them in their home. For me, low humidity, my Brinsea runs temps at a steady 99 degrees, & I don't candle - because I am lousy at it so I just lift the lid every 3-4 days to add a little water if needed, & do a quick "sniff test" if one is going bad believe me, you will smell it -- I've only had that happen once & I carefully removed the culprit & safely disposed of it way out back in the fields. Otherwise I leave them alone. I figure less is better.

And you know, if you think about it, Mother Nature is pretty forgiving. Conditions are not perfect under a broody hen. So, there is some leeway to hatching. When I stopped being so nervous & anal about every little detail, my hatch rates went way up. Not to say I'm not worrying over this coming hatch, since shipped eggs are always a gamble!