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LindaB220 said:
I'm really thinking about going total organic from Azure for chicken feed as well.   Can't I buy organic bread flour from them also?  I need to get a catalog.  I was thinking of about 4 tomatoes and squash or zucchini or various things Maybe 3 or 4 kinds plus a couple of small packs of herbs.  I'm going to do a lot of green beans and cowpeas.  And a LOT of sugar snap peas.   I'm not sure what NW area of state will bring for price.  Would it be different than south?    A lot of well off people going in around me.  One fellow down the road bought a bunch of land when he realized 100 million on natural gas.   Big beautiful home.  Maybe I should be thinking of doing organic chickens also.  I'd have to have help on that but might be worth it.  Way down the road on that!!!!   :lau
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Azure is great! You can check there catalog out online. I mix the scratch and peck from them and Texas natural and ferment them. Texas natural is a non GMO non soy feed. But I'm starting a grower feed of just scratch and peck fermented for my silkies. Then eventually all the chicks when they hatch will go on that. :)
I have a ton of heirloom seeds that I'll start in the garden this spring too. I did garden in CA quite a bit. Kind of miss the nice garden boxes my hubby made for me. And my wonderful fruit trees. But I can have a great garden here, and I'll bet my tomatoes do fabulously here. Never could get much from them before and I love home grown tomatoes! Good luck! I'm sure you'll do well!
 
Ok, jumping in with both feet here. The lady up the road wants to fill up the incubator with her eggs. Like, 40 of them (I told her I just wanted 6.)

I'm thinking dry hatch is the way to go. I'm running the bator now to check temps and whatnot. What do y'all use to gauge humidity?

Is the laundry room an ok place? Our dogs sleep in there in kennels, and I run tons of laundry. I don't know that it matters... I have my "office" that's quieter, but also cooler. The laundry room is much warmer.
 
campingshaws said:
Ok, jumping in with both feet here. The lady up the road wants to fill up the incubator with her eggs. Like, 40 of them (I told her I just wanted 6.)

I'm thinking dry hatch is the way to go. I'm running the bator now to check temps and whatnot. What do y'all use to gauge humidity?

Is the laundry room an ok place? Our dogs sleep in there in kennels, and I run tons of laundry. I don't know that it matters... I have my "office" that's quieter, but also cooler. The laundry room is much warmer.
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I use these. I trapped the wire together on the end things and run the wired out through the lid. They are thin, so its no big deal. http://m.petsmart.com/h5/hub?id=rep...-hygrometer-zid36-5195367/cat-36-catid-500012

I last the therm/hygr part flat on the Turner between eggs.

And I would choose the room with the most consistent temperature. Even if your office is cooler if it has more consistent temps them that might be better. I have ours on the floor of my daughter closet which had no doors.
 
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campingshaws said:
Ok, jumping in with both feet here. The lady up the road wants to fill up the incubator with her eggs. Like, 40 of them (I told her I just wanted 6.)

I'm thinking dry hatch is the way to go. I'm running the bator now to check temps and whatnot. What do y'all use to gauge humidity?

Is the laundry room an ok place? Our dogs sleep in there in kennels, and I run tons of laundry. I don't know that it matters... I have my "office" that's quieter, but also cooler. The laundry room is much warmer.
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Where ever the temp is more stable, 65 is good 72 is good, but it needs to be stable so the incubator temps stays stable.
 
campingshaws said:
Ok, jumping in with both feet here. The lady up the road wants to fill up the incubator with her eggs. Like, 40 of them (I told her I just wanted 6.)

I'm thinking dry hatch is the way to go. I'm running the bator now to check temps and whatnot. What do y'all use to gauge humidity?

Is the laundry room an ok place? Our dogs sleep in there in kennels, and I run tons of laundry. I don't know that it matters... I have my "office" that's quieter, but also cooler. The laundry room is much warmer.
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I mostly use my laundry room - didn't this past time because I had another project going in there & needed a double wall outlet so they were in the foyer. I have a thermometer-hygrometer I got at Walmart several years ago (or maybe it was Lowes) - don't remember the brand right off hand. I wouldn't think cooler would be a problem as it's the environment inside the 'bator you are controlling - I'd be more worried about the danger of the bator getting knocked over if there's a lot of activity in there - but I see you said your dogs are crated so that shouldn't be a problem. Mine has the cat's litter box in there, so it's blocked off from the dogs & it's only me & occasionally Jim doing laundry so it's not a real busy room. I always use dry hatch method & I've had more high percentages & 100% hatches than I have opposite.
 
TerriLaChicks said:
I mostly use my laundry room - didn't this past time because I had another project going in there & needed a double wall outlet so they were in the foyer. I have a thermometer-hygrometer I got at Walmart several years ago (or maybe it was Lowes) - don't remember the brand right off hand. I wouldn't think cooler would be a problem as it's the environment inside the 'bator you are controlling - I'd be more worried about the danger of the bator getting knocked over if there's a lot of activity in there - but I see you said your dogs are crated so that shouldn't be a problem. Mine has the cat's litter box in there, so it's blocked off from the dogs & it's only me & occasionally Jim doing laundry so it's not a real busy room. I always use dry hatch method & I've had more high percentages & 100% hatches than I have opposite.
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I'm so glad you said litter box, because that's where mine is too. The cat has become unreliable overnight so now he sleeps in there also. I'm worried he'll try to sleep on/around the incubator and disturb it. Is that totally unfounded? Anyone hatch with a cat around?
 
campingshaws said:
I'm so glad you said litter box, because that's where mine is too. The cat has become unreliable overnight so now he sleeps in there also. I'm worried he'll try to sleep on/around the incubator and disturb it. Is that totally unfounded? Anyone hatch with a cat around?
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Not totally unfounded at all! I know of a young man trying to hatch out his show birds. His cat ruined the last two batches of eggs. A cat napping on top of a warm comfy incubator for even a short time can cause a high temp spike.
 

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