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[mjgigax]

@mjgigax how are the eggs from the auction doing? I just tossed half of them, including most of the mottleds. I'm glad I take a whiff of the bator regularly, because one was WHOOOEEEEE rotten! It tickled me because it smelled green, and it WAS the only green egg in the batch!

:rofl

Mine have been in the incubator one week and most are developing but I don't know exactly how many. I was putting in another batch on my second tray so I grabbed a LED flashlight and quickly candled them the top tray. I usually wait til I move them to the hatcher to candle (and throw out bad ones) but this year I am too curious - I want chicks now!!!!! I didn't notice anything looking or smelling bad but it was a quick peek.
I couldn't see into my Blue Copper Marans eggs.

This is a pic of my Marans roo, Oz. I think he probably has too much copper color on his hackles and saddle but I think he is just beautiful.

 

[mjgigax]

It could be inexperience.
I ALMOST took a bunch of turkey eggs, to auction, recently, that I would have sworn my life savings on being fertile, and just found out, last night, that they were not fertile at all. I saw BOTH of my toms, copulate with both of my hens, multiple times, during that week. The eggs have been in the incubator 3 weeks, got candled last night, and nothing. No embryo. So, either both toms, are infertile, or their youth and inexperience, are keeping them from "getting the job done" with the hens.
I've been reading a bunch. And, I found, that Narragansett toms, are not supposed to be capable of fathering poults, until they are more than a year old. Mine are 10 months, now. So, it might be fall season, before I get poults out of them. In the mean time, the poor hens are going through the motions, and getting hurt in the process. But, I am now down to just one Tom. So, they're not getting trampled upon by two brutes, multiple times a week, each. Just one. But, I feel bad for those girls.
I have another two dozen eggs in another incubator. I'm going to ask to have those candled ASAP, to check, if any are viable. But, I'm suspecting that in my zeal, I may have been too hasty.
So, Rinda, yeah, it sucks, but, it could have just been a dummy like me, who didn't realize that their eggs were not getting properly fertilized.

The eggs I got were supposed to be from the Arkansas breeder's grow out pen. I paid only 4.00 for them and wanted to help fill up my first tray in my Sportsman. I bought 3 Orpington pullets from him at the auction last Spring and they are beautiful and great layers of big eggs. I will be glad if I get even one Orpington chick.
The Chocolates I got this time are starting to lay. I think I have a new breed love/another top favorite. Their color is really cool and they are so calm, like my Cochins. My Marans are hardly flighty and such sweet hens and my Coronation Sussex are huge and lovely -
Actually my favorite bird is what ever one I am looking at or holding at that time.

 

[SharkmanDan]

Update, on the old cabinet incubator.
It is 100% functional, as of tonight. I worked on it, all afternoon, and completely re-wired it. I lubricated the fan, straightened the coils on the heater, and unfroze the adjuster on the wafer thermostat.
Thanks to the folks on a thread for vintage redwood cabinet incubators, I found out that this is likely a Farm Master, sold by Sears, and probably from the 60's or 70's.
Tomorrow I have to go to Muskogee, mid day, to meet with my attorney, but, when I get home, I plan to clean it thoroughly, and get it ready to install a new digital temp controller, rather than the wafer type thermostat. I'll probably start sanding it, getting it ready to paint. My wife, being Mexican, LOVES bright colors. (You should see our kitchen or bedroom colors) Me, being color blind, I simply don't care about color. So, it can be whatever color she wants. We have dozens of cans of paint, that she's bought, for a dollar or two, here and there. I just have to get it prepped to paint, then put the paint on.

I am so excited. I can hardly wait......
More details to come.

 

[mjgigax]

I have some LF Frizzle Cochin eggs on there way. I'm very excited. I haven't hatched anything before so I will probably bombard you with questions next week. I also have some Lavender Orphingtons eggs to set. I just got 2 cream legbars from Rinda last weekend and I have a silkie I'm picking up tomorrow. My husband is going to kill me. LOL He says he doesn't mind but we'll see when they all start to hatch...I kinda think he enjoys them as much as I do but just wont really admit it yet.

My husband is a secret chicken fan too.

 

[MrsDickey]

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The eggs I got were supposed to be from the Arkansas breeder's grow out pen. I paid only 4.00 for them and wanted to help fill up my first tray in my Sportsman. I bought 3 Orpington pullets from him at the auction last Spring and they are beautiful and great layers of big eggs. I will be glad if I get even one Orpington chick.
The Chocolates I got this time are starting to lay. I think I have a new breed love/another top favorite. Their color is really cool and they are so calm, like my Cochins. My Marans are hardly flighty and such sweet hens and my Coronation Sussex are huge and lovely -
Actually my favorite bird is what ever one I am looking at or holding at that time.

The $4 dozen from the grow out is what I got too I plan on candling tonight for the first time now that I've read everyone else's posts. Also bought some black/ blue copper maran eggs and some "amerucana" eggs but they are green not the blue I was expecting so I'm assuming they're ees.

 

[kassward]

I've been told several ways to treat my chickens for mites/lice but I keep getting it all confused. I bought DE and dusted the coop but I still saw something on one of the chickens. I also bought permethrin but I don't know how to apply it. When I look it up it sound like a powder but what I bought is a concentrate. Any know how I should apply this.

 

[mjgigax]

Update, on the old cabinet incubator.
It is 100% functional, as of tonight. I worked on it, all afternoon, and completely re-wired it. I lubricated the fan, straightened the coils on the heater, and unfroze the adjuster on the wafer thermostat.
Thanks to the folks on a thread for vintage redwood cabinet incubators, I found out that this is likely a Farm Master, sold by Sears, and probably from the 60's or 70's.
Tomorrow I have to go to Muskogee, mid day, to meet with my attorney, but, when I get home, I plan to clean it thoroughly, and get it ready to install a new digital temp controller, rather than the wafer type thermostat. I'll probably start sanding it, getting it ready to paint. My wife, being Mexican, LOVES bright colors. (You should see our kitchen or bedroom colors) Me, being color blind, I simply don't care about color. So, it can be whatever color she wants. We have dozens of cans of paint, that she's bought, for a dollar or two, here and there. I just have to get it prepped to paint, then put the paint on.

I am so excited. I can hardly wait......
More details to come.

Very cool!
How may dozen will it hold?

 

[SharkmanDan]

The eggs I got were supposed to be from the Arkansas breeder's grow out pen. I paid only 4.00 for them and wanted to help fill up my first tray in my Sportsman. I bought 3 Orpington pullets from him at the auction last Spring and they are beautiful and great layers of big eggs. I will be glad if I get even one Orpington chick.
The Chocolates I got this time are starting to lay. I think I have a new breed love/another top favorite. Their color is really cool and they are so calm, like my Cochins. My Marans are hardly flighty and such sweet hens and my Coronation Sussex are huge and lovely -
Actually my favorite bird is what ever one I am looking at or holding at that time.

That certainly doesn't sound like an inexperienced dummy like me. I was sure my turkeys were getting the job done. Now, I'm really wondering.

 

[SharkmanDan]

Very cool!
How may dozen will it hold?

It holds 5 trays, each tray is about 18"x30", so I have no clue, how many it will hold. But, hundreds to say the least. I just ordered a digital temperature controller for it, that should be here Tuesday. I hope to have a bunch of eggs incubating, by Wednesday night.
I have a bunch here, now, and I'll have to take my last bunch to a friend to incubate, as some need to be in an incubator, Monday. I started collecting these Monday, 3/30.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I've been told several ways to treat my chickens for mites/lice but I keep getting it all confused. I bought DE and dusted the coop but I still saw something on one of the chickens. I also bought permethrin but I don't know how to apply it. When I look it up it sound like a powder but what I bought is a concentrate. Any know how I should apply this.

I only use the permethrin to treat the coop after a clean out, I use sevin dust or ivermectin directly on the birds, so I can't help you there. I do use the concentrate, 10 ML (cc) per quart of water and spray the coop down good especially cracks after I scraped out all the old bedding. I assume you COULD do a quick spray under the tail of each bird. But it's petroleum based and quite smelly, honestly I would hesitate to directly treat a bird with it. Grab some sevin dust or poultry dust next time you're at a hardware store or feed store, pour it in an old nylon stocking, and pop it under each wing and under the tail.

It holds 5 trays, each tray is about 18"x30", so I have no clue, how many it will hold. But, hundreds to say the least. I just ordered a digital temperature controller for it, that should be here Tuesday. I hope to have a bunch of eggs incubating, by Wednesday night.
I have a bunch here, now, and I'll have to take my last bunch to a friend to incubate, as some need to be in an incubator, Monday. I started collecting these Monday, 3/30.

It is going to be so exciting! Please post pics when it's all done!