Okies in the BYC The Original

[Buckguy20]

Dandelion,
I have been meaning to tell you but forgot. THe Hamburg rooster died. He was doing fine but I think he must have gotten chilled when we had the big rains last week.
He was out of the rain so wasn't wet. He had seemed fine the evening before but was dead under the roost the next morning.
I also lost a Hamburg puillet. So I still have the two hens I got from you and three other pullets.
Now I will need to find another Hamburg rooster before spring.
Monty

 

[Buckguy20]

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Let us know what the BYC Okies can do to help make this a big success.

 

[Dandelion007]

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Fun like a root canal. They were making fun of the chickendale dancer's bosom's.
Mine in particular.

Since the Chickendale Dancers obviously KNOW what men like, I guess we normal women are going to have to work a little harder at having ideal racks. All of us (women) are just going to have to show up at the next POOPS sporting over perky boobs pointed in all directions. Any sporting goods store should be able to give us their look! Or fruit stand...

 

[smfamf]

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Since the Chickendale Dancers obviously KNOW what men like, I guess we normal women are going to have to work a little harder at having ideal racks. All of us (women) are just going to have to show up at the next POOPS sporting over perky boobs pointed in all directions. Any sporting goods store should be able to give us their look! Or fruit stand...

 

[Buster52]

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I can certainly relate to that. When I bought my cheapo LG still air bator and didn't have a clue what I was doing, I had something like an 80% hatch rate the first three batches.

It has been downhill ever since.

I read up on incubation, bought another bator with fan and turner and several thermometers (the type with relative humidity indicator and everything). Started practicing all the stuff you are supposed to do during incubation, and fretting through the entire process. Out of the last three batches, I've had a total of two hatch.

Sometimes it seems like the more I know, the harder things get.

I was getting poor hatches with a couple of Styrofoam incubators then I built the Monster Bator. That thing make my electric bill go sky high though. Now I've been steadily converting it into a "stable temp area". I found when I put the Styrofoam incubator in it that the refrigerator cabinet maintains a constant temp of 80 - 83 degrees. (I like to save electricity for the house temp and have it set for the heater to come on at 65 degrees and the A/C to come on at 83 degrees which I have found is way too much of a swing when it comes to Styrofoam incubators.) Then I have a 18 egg Marsh incubator that I use for hatching. It has a clear dome so you can easily see them hatching inside.

With this setup, I can put a few eggs at a time (think small flocks) in the Styrofoam incubator that has a auto egg turner in it and them move them to the Marsh to hatch. All of the incubators keep very constant temps and my electric bill is not noticeably higher.

So to make a long story short, maybe your room temp is swinging too much for your LG.

No, that's not it. They sit right under the house thermostat which is set at a temp swing of about 4 degrees.

But your idea will save me a ton of money. That AC is costing me a fortune just to hatch... er, try to hatch these eggs, even though it is a geothermal system.

So, thanks!

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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Same here in the SE corner!

 

[Buckguy20]

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Same here in the SE corner!

But you guys live in the beautiful part of the state.
I will trade a chicken auction for two acres of pine trees.

 

[al6517]

Morning Okies : I am rained out today, so trying to decide what to do before the DW finds something for me, I always like my ideas better LOL.
I looked out the window and looks as though I caught another coon, that make 4 coons & one possum in 6 days, justtrying to thin out the population. Every time we get some rain I see tracks around the coop's so I lay a trap and bingo I get one.

AL

 

[al6517]

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What kind are you hatching ???, did you ever get a line on some Butlers or Georgia Giants ??.

AL

 

[Buckguy20]

Cuban, I am glad you are on here now. I have a genetics question.

I just had some chicks hatch out. They are out of a mutt hen and a naked neck rooster.
Neither of the parents show any signs of Ameracauna or EE genes. However most of the chicks have fuuzy cheeks.
I don't know which parent is carrying the genes. I suspect the hen but I raised her and I am pretty sure she is out an Andalusian roo and Buff Orp hen. She lays a tan colored egg has white legs and no muff. The roo is red has white legs and no muffs.
I also have a young roo from a spring hatch that is red like his pa but has muffs.
Any way to know?