"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[LemonMeringue]

I am in Leesville. I have been looking on Bookoo.

I'm sure that you probably already have some of these pages on facebook bookmarked. But I figured I would post links in case.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/544950702229936/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/LouisianaPoultryRelated/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/457779294278145/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/683854461653127/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1547310635501982/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/396875070443383/

These are all Louisiana groups. If you don't find what you are looking for you could post what you are looking for and hopefully you will have some luck.

 

[campingshaws]

I am in Leesville. I have been looking on Bookoo.

The Cluckin' Chicken in Dry Creek has chicks all the time. She's on bookoo and Facebook.

 

[birdman55]

Nice build. I use the same type of thermostat in my homemade incubators. How are you turning/tilting your eggs?

there is a water bottle under them filled with water so it can keep the water warm and its better stable temp wise in there from it...
also there is a lot of people saying dry hatch....compared to wet hatch I heard if your in high altitude you have better hatch rate with wet and lower altitude you get better hatch with dry hatch...I had a styro one and hatched 10 out of 13 in a dry setting ...now im trying wet and seeing how much they will hatch...this is an experiment for when I build the big incubator I will be able to pick the most effective way to hatch....I know all my eggs are fertile the three roos are chasing the ladies all the time and everytime we eat an egg when we break it theres always a bullseye...meaning its fertile...also I hope the hatch turns out good cause we are at 7 degrees right now and I picked the warmest eggs for three days to make sure I got good ones....also I heard you can monitor the inside of the egg to see in relation with rh relative humidity with weight loss/gain im not sure which one...and then adjust from there....
well hope this helps

 

[campingshaws]

Nothing to see here... :/

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Terri, does those red ones look anything close to a RIR?

I'm holding my breath about a couple of appliances here! I hope they hold out. Glad yours was able to be fixed!

I think so --- the only pics I have of the ones I just hatched are under red lighting, but here's a pic of the ones I hatched 2 years ago:


I really like these RIRs. I might spring for another dozen eggs from Dick Horstman's line so I'd have 2 different lines, both good egg-layers to cross. I'm also thinking, if I got hold of some good quality Barred Rocks, crossing RIRs to BRs will yield a sex-linked breed similar to Greenfire's Rhodebars.

I wish it would stop raining! May as well take advantage of it & go take a nap!

 

[LindaB220]

That is the exact thing that happened to me the first time I tried to hatch a few eggs. I ignorantly assumed that the thermometer that came with the incubator would be accurate. Nope. When laid on top of the eggs it read 99.5 degrees F. But that was at the TOP of the eggs. Down a little further in the center of the eggs it was even cooler, because its a still air incubator. So I got a couple of thermometers that have hygrometer and temperature indicators (or whatever you call them) and used them laid down at the egg yolk level between the eggs. That makes the incubator run warmer than the usual 99.5, but the average air temperature is correct. It will be nice to get a fan kit though and see if that helps.

I ran this hatch at 30-35% humidity until the last few days. Then I jacked it up. All the chicks that have been hatching were not glued in or stuck at all. Popping out clean with no membrane or anything sticking to their down. I got it up to about 50% about 24 hrs before the first pip. I know that it is recommended that it be a bit higher than that, so I will have to work on it. Maybe 2 pieces of the sponge instead of 1. The humidity would spike up when chicks were popping out and then it would slowly slide back down to 50%.

That's nice. I'm on day 17 today and keeping it at 100 and 30-35%. I'm doing a 2 hr cool down with the top off from day 8 to day 18. I have 3 clears out of 15 and the rest I'm not touching. I can't candle worth a darn. Three Lemon Cukoo Orpingtons and 12 Marraduna Basques. I don't know which will hatch. Some at least, I hope.

I have had an absolute lake in my backyard. The coop that the Cobb 500's are in is on a slope and I haven't had the time or money to put down bags of soil around it. Now I do, but the rain is coming and coming. Solving this, a man is coming tomorrow to pick up the 8 hens. $3 each. Giveaway I know but I need the aggravation gone. They are not like normal chickens, you can't leave food around or they will eat until it's gone. I've had them since Oct and have gotten less than 2 doz eggs before they shut down. $24 will buy me a bag of chick starter and a gallon of agri molasses for my EM-1 fermented feed that I make.

But they were rescue chickens and have had a fabulous 3 months extra life. Even free, I still lost money in feed.

 

[opossum04]

I am needing some RIR or red star hens if anyone has some for sale. 5 to 10 head would be perfect. Thank you.

 

[LindaB220]

Idk. I asked on SS board without much luck. Thinking I'll probably order from a hatchery. Don't need to show, just decent yard birds

How is the hatching? must be exciting!

Check Sandhill Preservation hatchery. They are much better quality than going to the normal hatcherys. You have to buy 25 min but you can flesh out your numbers by buying the assorted special. They will not be hatching until about February but the numbers of people ordering are staggering. You will wait 3 or more months for the shipment but well worth it for quality.

 

[LindaB220]

Had a power outage on one of my early hatches years ago, out almost 24 hrs (we didn't have a generator back then) but still had a decent hatch. Sit tight & carry on! We're all sending you positive hatching vibes!

This happened to me also and I just carried on and NONE hatched. I was bummed out about this but I cracked the eggs and none were viable. I would say you get what you pay for but I paid good money for clears. Fellow sent a replacement for the white rocks and only 2 were viable and hatched. Total black mutts.

 

[campingshaws]

Any of y'all ever have strong tasting eggs? A little like mud, or wet dog? I cooked some yard eggs today (not mine) and no one would eat them. I choked them down on a sandwich, but they were awful. It's aggravating because I bought two dozen. :/