Ended Official 2020 BYC Halloween Hatch-Along

[ChickenCanoe]

Everything will have the load listed as either watts or amps. To find the amperage from watts and you are using 120 volts for power, roughly you can divide the watts by 120. It isn't exact but it will get you close to the amperage.

Are you sure about the distances?

 

[RoseHawke]

Thank you! I’ll do some math to figure out what I have running. I’m sure the electric fence box doesn’t draw much. Fingers crossed I can figure it out before he finds them in the house lol

Definitely. 12 gauge - nothing less, although 200 feet if I'm reading that right? Is really pushing it and I personally wouldn't want to use anything less than 10 but extension cords don't come in 10. 200 feet of 12 gauge extension cordis also going to be pretty expensive I'm afraid. If you've got something like a small appliance circuit, or a 20 amp shop circuit, that would also help.

 

[DallasChickyMomma]

An incubator full of Spooky Babies!

 

[Pensmaster]

An incubator full of Spooky Babies!

Nice, and clean hatch.

 

[Duckee]

Im loving all the baby pictures! Im secretly shopping in your incubators! Bahahaha
Congrats to all, enjoy your littles and have a safe Halloween.

 

[smfarman]

Happy Halloween and congratulations to everyone with their new babies. I have 3 external pips this afternoon, I think I should have set them a day earlier.

 

[Pensmaster]

I have a pip.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I have 4 chicks out 8 hours early.
The one that was pipped early this morning is zipping now and there are at least 4 others pipping.

 

[jolenesdad]

SO MANY BABIES! Congrats everyone!!!

 

[- Serama Mama -]

It can be dangerous though.
She actually saved 4 chicks from certain death once when a power outage here came at the end of a hatch. What I thought was the end of hatch. I had set the non pipped leftover eggs in a carton on the fireplace ready to discard. She said you do know they are peeping right? No I can’t hear them. Power was still out so she took them and put them under her top. Power came back in a couple hours. Put them back into incubator and they finished hatching. She’s amazing.

Your wife sounds amazing. Anytime I'm moving eggs from the incubator or my shed, I'm popping those little guys in bra lest they lose any more temperature than necessary

I wish my husband was that supportive! He's mostly ok with it cuz it's my money being spent. I'm lucky when he comes home from work some nights and lays down in bed and motions towards my bedroom brooder box and says "hand me a baby, I need the healing power of a chicken."