"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[LindaB220]

It held steady for almost a week. I think it's user error.

Meaning I think one of the times I bumped down I actually bumped it up.

It's at 102 and 100 now, and the thermometer on the side wall is at 96. So I think I'm in the right direction. I'll check again in a few hours, and sit on my hands til then.

This is what I bought. Beekissed said to buy a water wiggler and put the probe insie it and lay it on top of the eggs. Then drape thermometer outside. It is more accurate than anything I have had. I wore it out and now need to buy another.

http://www.amazon.com/SODIAL-TM-Aqu...19981755&sr=8-4&keywords=aquarium+thermometer

I can't get my computer to post it but look up clown water wiggler on amazon. $1.25 + $ 2 shipping.

These have saved me because I had three different kinds and never could stabilize them. Beekissed said that this was the most accurate because it sits on the eggs.

 

[LindaB220]

2.50 for hatching eggs don't swet the small stuff. Like I said I hatched two that were unplugged for quite a while. Beginners luck you may hatch them all.

Pam

Yeah, I remember my first hatch. I set it up in the storeroom and when I looked in late morning it was 110 degrees. I screamed and brought them insdie. Everybody local said to dump them but I kept going . I hatched 11 out of 14. Super Blue egg layers. Best hatch ever for me.

A later hatch from the same seller was 11 out of 18. So maybe it was just luck.

 

[Cody A]

Ok ya'll, my first set of 8 Bielefelder eggs are supposed to arrive tomorrow. I'm supposed to be notified by the P.O. to pick up. If I get them in the morning I will weigh, and candle to check the condition of the air cells. I've read to let them rest 12-24 hrs at room temperature before putting in incubator.
I'm thinking wait 12 hrs and put them in tomorrow evening with turner on if air cells look good. Does this sound like a good plan.
Should I do it differently.

 

[Ron Skekel]

I'm on day 13 with my Marraduna Basques and Ron Ott said to take the top off the incubator from day 8 to day 18 for a couple of hours to get a cool down.  The incubator companies are now starting to talk about it also.  I'll see if it works.  Thirty to thirty five percent humidity at 100 degrees.  Three clears of 15.  So far.  I'll bump it to 50% around lockdown.  It goes higher when they start to hatch.  e    

Pam, I thought of you when you said that La has coyotes.  I've never heard them up here at all.  Now I have an ungodly howling outside my window.  Aimee has been going gangbusters on her dog boarding.  Clint took in a german shephard  and low and behold, it's a 100% wolf.  Eyes glow at night.  She's 18 months old and really friendly. So Clint says.  I'm not gonna go out there.    

Sure it's not a hybrid wolf shepard? How did they come to that conclusion? Glad your going organic. I've known for years that their is Arsenic in conventional feed. Last week the FDA finally confirmed their is arsenic in chicken. I tell my customers I feed all organic and I keep the ingredients tag for customers to read if they wish. My recites for organic sunflower seeds I use for scratch. I'm not certified organic.this way I can charge 4.00 a doz instead of 6.99 that is charged at whole foods etc. plus my hens free range are out in the sun they have a good life not stuck in small pens 24/7. I have no trouble selling my eggs. I've had to add more hens to meet demand. If no one is selling at your azure drop that was my first sale to a lot of people at one stop. Good luck! You'll do fine.

 

[Ron Skekel]

Ok  ya'll, my first set of 8 Bielefelder eggs are supposed to arrive tomorrow. I'm supposed to be notified by the P.O. to pick up. If I get them in the morning I will weigh, and candle to check the condition of the air cells. I've read to let them rest 12-24 hrs at room temperature before putting in incubator.
I'm thinking wait 12 hrs and put them in tomorrow evening with turner on if air cells look good. Does this sound like a good plan.
Should I do it differently.

Some get their eggs in the morning let them settle all day then start that night or the next day. Pam

 

[LindaB220]

I've read numerous reports in the last 2 weeks about coop or barn fires like this one. http://www.newhampshire.com/article/20141229/NEWHAMPSHIRE1409/141239954&template=newhampshire1409

I'm so glad we decided to not use any heat lamps outside this year. We did use a different kind of heater at the beginning when we had those terrible cold snaps. But our chickens are plenty acclimated. It would be terrible to loose it all in a fire.

Aoxa lost her huge barn and all stock when a brooder light was overheated. She did a write up on it on here. Awful.

This is Beekissed's video on her sunbeam DIY brooder. In place of a heat lamp she shaped a sunbeam heating pad (the washable kind) with some chicken wire. That's the white half moon shape on the floor of her coop. Covered it with a pillowcase and had it roomy enough for the chicks to run in and out. Love it and am going to make one when my Basques hatch. Maybe the heatlamp for the first few days in the storeroom and then outside into the coop. There is another youtube on something like this. The lady kept talking about how she invented it. Beekissed was already doing it. But both are essentially the same.

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[campingshaws]

Alright. Got up this morning, and both thermometers had shifted off the eggs. Fixed that, and took one out. Then I bundled up the kids and we went shopping in Oakdale. Couldn't trust myself to keep my hands off.

When we got home I let the chickens out, and realized their feeders were empty, poor things. So I bought their forgiveness by filling the treat balls. Of course they were way more upset with being penned than with running out of feed and hardly bothered them at all. I've been steadily cleaning up behind my tornado kids and haven't had time to fiddle. I think the worst is behind me, for now.

 

[Cody A]

Yeah, I'm sitting on 100 and 30-35%. BUT I'm not expert, I just heard this was the better way to go. Dry hatching.

Yea. My problem is I've read so much and so many posts I don't know which way I should go, So I'm going with what others have said to do in the Dickeys cabinet.
There was a couple posters from LA that aren't here anymore that have the Dickeys, Perolane and Hippichic. Wish they were still here.

 

[Cody A]

This is what I bought. Beekissed said to buy a water wiggler and put the probe insie it and lay it on top of the eggs. Then drape thermometer outside. It is more accurate than anything I have had. I wore it out and now need to buy another.

http://www.amazon.com/SODIAL-TM-Aqu...19981755&sr=8-4&keywords=aquarium+thermometer

I can't get my computer to post it but look up clown water wiggler on amazon. $1.25 + $ 2 shipping.

These have saved me because I had three different kinds and never could stabilize them. Beekissed said that this was the most accurate because it sits on the eggs.

Have any of you guys seen or tried these. I don't believe it would work in a cabinet without drilling a hole.

http://www.amazon.com/Egg-o-meter-A-Better-Egg-Thermometer/dp/B004XNMH92

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Egg-O-Meter...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item3f1e1d8de6

 

[Cody A]

So I just tracked my eggs on USPS and got this V

• Your item was returned to the sender on December 30, 2014 at 7:22 pm in OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73125 because it could not be delivered as addressed.

Guess I won't be getting eggs tomorrow.