Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[wingstone]

This is a great picture !
Someone needs to be saving pics like this to be used at the summer get together...which will be at the farm this summer.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

for all of you who want to get an incubator to hatch just a few eggs........... why not check out this ad! its truly something and I think in the lancaster area http://lancaster.craigslist.org/grd/4846584631.html

Just a few!

ha ha! Yeah, we could feed it to the cows and goat too. Maybe the pony, but my niece is real protective of her pony. I wonder if there is residual alcohol that would make the livestock drunk. Not sure I could tell if the goat was drunk, LOL

I would love to see video of a drunken goat!

That makes my incubator seem a bit . . . inadequate.

Yes, I don't know how you've been able to get by...

Anne: Crowing isn't the only behavior to look for..I had a Showgirl boy....took him a long time to crow, but he was urging the girls to come eat at scratch he had 'found'...my two cents

Haven't seen that either yet.... . But if it is a male, I am already hoping he jumps a few of my girls right before my chicken goes broody again. Don't tell my DH...

LisaY: Humm, a bater that hatches 1000 eggs and an unlimited source of feed....think there's a theme here....

I missed that one. Good call!

Sounds better that way. Chicken "fertilizer" is the best on gardens. Manure was the only fertilizer my mom used for her garden, and she had a great one. I thought she was very tolerant, but looking back I think she appreciated the manure (and eggs) more than she let on.

If that's the case, my hostas next next to my patio are going to go nuts this spring. I am curious to see.

Egg pics: Rhodebar (top) Barred Holland Welsummer BBS Ameracaunas BCM's

. Very jealous. Perhaps in the future I can get some fertile eggs from you. Future meaning when I have more property.

Northwest PA !!

Welcome!

This is a great picture ! Someone needs to be saving pics like this to be used at the summer get together...which will be at the farm this summer.

Yay! Can't wait! I can always bring food and help.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Need some assistance with turning a small chest freezer into an incubator. Anyone have info on the process with supplies that are easily obtainable & cheap?

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Does anyone herehave Bielefelders? My are they gorgeous and useful!

 

[dheltzel]

Need some assistance with turning a small chest freezer into an incubator. Anyone have info on the process with supplies that are easily obtainable & cheap?

Was the 1000 egg Petersime incubator someone posted the link to earlier not large enough for ya?

Of course Sally Sunshine is the "go to" gal for any homemade incubator, but she's been laying low lately. I'm in the process of making a hatcher from a large cooler and am using a STC-1000 controller, though Sally favors the wafer thermostats. She uses incandescent light bulbs, I bought a heating element from eBay (or Amazon, can't remember) that is like a metal stick. It gets really hot and mounting it safely is one of the trickier aspects of this (and my reticence to drill holes into a new $70 cooler).

Another DIY project I'm working on is a really bright candler that doesn't use batteries. I want to be able to see inside those Welsummer and Marans eggs!

 

[SilkieSensation]

Need some assistance with turning a small chest freezer into an incubator. Anyone have info on the process with supplies that are easily obtainable

Was the 1000 egg Petersime incubator someone posted the link to earlier not large enough for ya? 

Of course Sally Sunshine is the "go to" gal for any homemade incubator, but she's been laying low lately. I'm in the process of making a hatcher from a large cooler and am using a STC-1000 controller, though Sally favors the wafer thermostats. She uses incandescent light bulbs, I bought a heating element from eBay (or Amazon, can't remember) that is like a metal stick. It gets really hot and mounting it safely is one of the trickier aspects of this (and my reticence to drill holes into a new $70 cooler).

Another DIY project I'm working on is a really bright candler that doesn't use batteries. I want to be able to see inside those Welsummer and Marans eggs!

If that bator were closer & I had a vehicle I would be all over it. But I have a really nice freezer sitting here that is only 3 years old & was fried by an electrical issue because someone wired stuff wrong. I'd really like to turn it into something "useful" if anyone has inexpensive plans that are simple enough for me to follow. And since the same electrical issue also messed up my fridge, it will likely join the freezer as soon as it finishes dying.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

If that bator were closer & I had a vehicle I would be all over it. But I have a really nice freezer sitting here that is only 3 years old & was fried by an electrical issue because someone wired stuff wrong. I'd really like to turn it into something "useful" if anyone has inexpensive plans that are simple enough for me to follow. And since the same electrical issue also messed up my fridge, it will likely join the freezer as soon as it finishes dying.

good luck on the homemade incubator. We have an old chest freezer that was left with the house when we moved in. We use it as a compost "tank". We empty it into the garden every fall and till it in. Works great!

 

[SilkieSensation]

If that bator were closer & I had a vehicle I would be all over it. But I have a really nice freezer sitting here that is only 3 years old & was fried by an electrical issue because someone wired stuff wrong. I'd really like to turn it into something "useful" if anyone has inexpensive plans that are simple enough for me to follow. And since the same electrical issue also messed up my fridge, it will likely join the freezer as soon as it finishes dying.

good luck on the homemade incubator. We have an old chest freezer that was left with the house when we moved in. We use it as a compost "tank". We empty it into the garden every fall and till it in. Works great!

My compost pile is behind the coops down the bank a little. No food scraps go there tho. The critters get all of that. Just poop & bedding in my compost pile.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I managed to get my extra boys moved into the spare coop today. They were NOT happy with me. Doesn't help that they were broody raised so they were a pain to catch.

 

[SilkieSensation]

I managed to get my extra boys moved into the spare coop today. They were NOT happy with me. Doesn't help that they were broody raised so they were a pain to catch.

No spare coop here. My extra boys get moved to Freezer Camp...lol