Okies in the BYC The Original

[sjarvis00]

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I won't need it until after I get the Sportsman filled and since I didn't get it cleaned up before the fellow from the Department of Ag arrived to do my NPIP inspection today, I probably won't start filling it until closer to March - so you still have time for at least 3 more hatches!

NooooooOOOooooo! No more failed hatches for meeeeee!

Faerie - We will help you!! More than what we did. P&B knows her incubator and should know the proper humididty levels for you. I will gladly come take a look and help you get it going if you want. You have to have at least one good hatch before giving up! Go Team!

 

[poultryand bees]

Monty - the ladies I got from you have begun laying eggs again. Just wanted you to know

They were a bit indignant at being NPIP tested today, but they will undoubtedly forget about it by the time it needs to be done again next year.

 

[muesky]

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Isn't that one of the beauties of chickens is their simplicity...

 

[poultryand bees]

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NooooooOOOooooo! No more failed hatches for meeeeee!

Faerie - We will help you!! More than what we did. P&B knows her incubator and should know the proper humididty levels for you. I will gladly come take a look and help you get it going if you want. You have to have at least one good hatch before giving up! Go Team!

I confess to being blissfully ignorant about the importance of humidity levels during incubation. I keep the middle channel full of water during incubation, consider any opening of the incubator during incubation to be like the mother hen leaving the nest for 20 minutes a day, and when I remove the turner at day 18 (if I remember) I fill up all the water channels on the bottom liner, line the edges with socks soaked in hot water so the chicks don't get caught on the wire edge of the screened bottom and wait. I am bad about removing shells and chicks a couple of times while they are hatching. As long as the window isn't fogged so much that you can't see in, I don't consider the humidity too high.

 

[b52fizzle]

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Usually P&B goes and Carla or Gerald, and Asa(B52fizzle) will be there, he is always there. So there will be a few more than you think. But we will be there!

i dont know if thats good or bad, kinda hard to miss it, i only live 2 or 3 miles away and if i have a day off its saturday, so mostly lucky i guess.

 

[nnbreeder]

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I finished up just after dark so no pics till tomorrow evening. We did get the young rooster and "his" hens in it though and they really seem to like it.

 

[ilovesilkies]

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I finished up just after dark so no pics till tomorrow evening. We did get the young rooster and "his" hens in it though and they really seem to like it.

great i cant wait to see it.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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Score!

 

[sjarvis00]

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Faerie - We will help you!! More than what we did. P&B knows her incubator and should know the proper humididty levels for you. I will gladly come take a look and help you get it going if you want. You have to have at least one good hatch before giving up! Go Team!

I confess to being blissfully ignorant about the importance of humidity levels during incubation. I keep the middle channel full of water during incubation, consider any opening of the incubator during incubation to be like the mother hen leaving the nest for 20 minutes a day, and when I remove the turner at day 18 (if I remember) I fill up all the water channels on the bottom liner, line the edges with socks soaked in hot water so the chicks don't get caught on the wire edge of the screened bottom and wait. I am bad about removing shells and chicks a couple of times while they are hatching. As long as the window isn't fogged so much that you can't see in, I don't consider the humidity too high.

Then I will help Faerie. I love incubating and have gotten pretty good at figuring out what I was doing wrong in the beginning. I was loaned the best book ever and when I find it Im going to but it. Its only a $7 book, thin paperback. But I would like it to keep just incase and for loaning out when someone else is having trouble.

 

[faerielady]

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Score!

No doubt! Also, my dad's an engineering tech, so I set him on the issue... and he's already thinking up stuff. Heh. Might give him another "pet project" and get him out of my mom's hair for a while...