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[minihorse927]

4 pips! 3 of them chocolate AM's and one black AM. no chocolate orps yet but they are chirping. Only day 20. Go brinsea!

 

[minihorse927]

She's a mutt. Best we can figure is porcelain d'uccle and old English game or maybe mixed game. She has muffs and a beard but lays brown eggs. she looks like an EE but the lady had no easter eggers and she has some rather large porcelain d'uccle and the games running around. Mostly mixed and a few pure games.

the chicks

angry momma

I am bringing some if these chicks to the swap. They should all be light OE/EE chicks. They all hatched out of eggs from this broody machine so these are 100% related just so everyone knows.

 

[loveourbirds]

are they full size OE's or bantams?

 

[loveourbirds]

4 pips! 3 of them chocolate AM's and one black AM. no chocolate orps yet but they are chirping. Only day 20. Go brinsea!

congratulations by the way! ive never owned a brisnea, but i don't hear many complaints other than digital temp readouts are sometimes off.

is it an incubator you would recommend? have you had any readout problems?

 

[minihorse927]

They're out of her which she is a very large bantam. Honestly wouldn't even consider her bantam. She lays medium size eggs and from a lf EE roo. He's a big boy at 12 pounds and stands past my knees and I'm 5'8". These chicks are large for hatching frher eggs.

 

[minihorse927]

congratulations by the way!  ive never owned a brisnea, but i don't hear many complaints other than digital temp readouts are sometimes off.

is it an incubator you would recommend? have you had any readout problems?

I've just got a octagon 20eco. No digital readout. It's the poor mans version. I've got no complaints other than if you hatch in cleaning the fuzz out of the top is a pain because you have to take it half apart. I'd love to have one of their larger incubators. Hoping my eggs and chicks can pay for it next year.

 

[minihorse927]

I would definitely recommend it. Mine does best if we keep the house at 68-70 degrees. I get it set and it hold between 99.5 and 99.8 as long as we keep the house at normal temps.

 

[loveourbirds]

i do love my sportsman cabinets, but it takes a lot to fill them up. of course i dont use the spacers, i guess they would make it a little easier.

for someone who just has a few chickens you can set one tray a week and move them down when they are ready to hatch. im thinking with the egg spacer racks they hold somewhere around 72 eggs per tray. with mine i can get about 100 standard eggs per tray and 150 bantams per tray, sometimes more not using the spacers. the biggest drawback i can see, is if one goes out..... its hard to find a buddy with enough room in their incubator to save your eggs. and i dont have that many broody hens

i have recommended brisnea to several people, i always like to hear opinions on them so i know if im doing right.

 

[Rnbwbrite1207]

Here is an MSDS (material safety data sheet) sheet for diatomaceous earth http://www.sciencestuff.com/msds/C1668.html
It is my understanding that food grade DE is non carcinogenic (non cancer causing) however it can lead to pneumonia do to lung irritation. Chronic lung irritation is a warning sign of a propensity for lung cancer. Other types of DE like that used in a pool filter is superheated and processed in facilities that also process other things like PVC that are carcinogenic this is why those products are not safe for consumption. The FDA offers guidelines for nutritional use of DE in humans. My impression of the article that claimed 1600 illnesses did not only include cancer but all forms of lung irritation. Such as silicosis. Breathing DE is bad for you like any small particulate but ingestion is totally safe.

 

[loveourbirds]

ingestion shows some good properties such as better weight gain and feed efficiency. some say it makes an excellent wormer, i havent used it for that myself.

im just not sure about it being used as a pesticide dust, or anti caking agent in feed any more, chickens constantly kick. and lets face it chickens have tons of respiratory issues, i tend to inhale before i take a bite - not sure if a chicken does the same thing. take that as you will, not necessarily offering advice.

im kind of stereotyping here, but most of us older farmers smoke. that makes it more dangerous for us.