NY chicken lover!!!!

[tao chick]

@Pyxis sorry you lost your rooster!

@Chicken girl 15 incubators are wonderful, challenging & dangerous at the same time! working now on building another one based on Sally Sunshine's cabinet cooler-bator. And I started out with a Genesis 1588 in 2013, and now have built 2 from coolers. Gutted the 2nd one as it was just a free white styrofoam cooler & after many hatches, was pretty dirty despite cleaning each time. Re-using those parts for the new cabinet cooler-bator. Hope to get it up & running for the Easter Hatch-A-Long as the 1588 is already 3/4 full.

I didn't realize you were building one too. Good luck!

 

[Beer can]

@Devona sounds like your just going to have to move upstate eventually.

 

[Purpletie3]

My current incubator is filled with duck eggs. I just ordered a second incubator

but it won't be here till next week. Once I get it and get it up and running I will need to get some eggs for it. I have the last eggs that my girls laid and I'm thinking about trying to set them first. I know that they will be over a week old, but I feel like I owe it to the girls to try!

Luv, just keep them in a dark 50 degree area and put them in an egg carton and prop one end up then switch and prop the other end up about 3x a day. I tested my Easter Eggers last year with eggs up to 20 days old. They all hatched but one 20 day old egg...



I am in Caz if you want some mixed eggs- I'd donate some to you to get your flock going again..


I don't have any of my breeding pens set up yet so, I have all pure birds for the most part but they are all clumped together so they are mutt offspring:

In one pen I have a Greenfire Svart Hona rooster over 2 hona hens (One KYTinpusher & one Ewe Crazy), 5 isbars (2 KYTinpusher and 3 Greenfire) and one black bantam orp.
I have about 30 offspring from this pen and they are sooooooo cute!!!








In my blue house I have an Easter Egger roo over 2 EE hens, one Creme Crested Legbar hen and two blue twins who are (1/2 blue isbar and 1/2 BCM)




In my BAMA house (Another blue and olive producer) I have a creme crested legbar roo over three white creme crested legbars (They were a recessive trait), one regular creme crested legbar and 5 Olive eggers.







My Greenfire coop is a Bielefielder roo, 2 isbar roo's and a sulmtaler roo over 5 sulmtaler hens and bielefelder hen and 2 barbezieux hen.




My last crew has a GFF light sussex roo and GFF orust roo over 2 GFF light sussex gals and one white creme crested legbar (SONEW) and one GFF sulmtaler.





When everyone was little they would hop bins and I let them choose their peeps.

 

[Beer can]

Those wanting to build a cabinet incubator incubator warehouse has a kit to make it easier, all parts, digital control, heater fan, turner motor.
https://www.google.com/url?q=http:/...tT6DRQ&usg=AFQjCNEIiAIP97wImFyAJ35ifLZbMB8dGg

 

[Beer can]

@Purpletie3 did you just say you hatched 20 day old eggs?
I figured can't hurt to try. With only two white giant pullets it will take me at least that long maybe longer to get enough eggs to fill a hova. I figure worst case scenario older eggs don't hatch. I have to wait till spring though
:-(

 

[PhoredaBurds]

@Purpletie3
I love that your birds all got to choose their own roommates, lol. They all look so happy for it.

 

[Purpletie3]

@Purpletie3
I love that your birds all got to choose their own roommates, lol. They all look so happy for it.

Funny you say that...When we walk around the yard that's what we always say...Man, we have some happy birds! Thank you for that sweet comment!!! Hey, BTW- I am on incubator watch!!!

 

[Purpletie3]

@Purpletie3 did you just say you hatched 20 day old eggs?
I figured can't hurt to try. With only two white giant pullets it will take me at least that long maybe longer to get enough eggs to fill a hova. I figure worst case scenario older eggs don't hatch. I have to wait till spring though
:-(

Yes, they hatched to 20 days....I was doing an experiment & it worked! LOL

 

[Devona]

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@Devona sounds like your just going to have to move upstate eventually.[/quote

Haha. I would definitely like a bigger property. I'm in two minds about whether I'd prefer to stay in the city or not. There's something to be said about not having to get in the car every time you need to get something from a store.

But any moving, my dear, will be done in a southerly direction. Winter is ok for a few weeks, but I am at heart a tropical animal.
On another note, I would like to start growing kale. My rabbits love it. And it makes great people food too. I vaguely remember you saying that you kept some growing this winter. Vates, I think you said it was. Are they still surviving? I suppose I could grow any variety in the spring and summer, but I would like a more cold hardy type in winter. Obviously yours is. Maybe if I only grow in a small raised area and wrap in with plastic, I might be able to keep it going.

 

[Susieq2015]

I so gotta get an incubator. . I gotta see what my flock turns out for chicks

Congrats, its so much fun and the kids will love it! Will you have it in time for the Easter HAL? If you ever want some eggs (blue egg roo based crosses) to add a little diversity let me know, I go to the feed store in your town about every 2 weeks