September Hatch-A-Long

[Lazy Farmer]

Pictures!

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[Lazy Farmer]

Pictures!

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Tomorrow will be lock down...
a small sample of good and bad...

Here is a freaky one... Bad obviously..

Good..

Bad..

Good..

Over all, 16 out of 25 going into lock down tomorrow.

 

[ronott1]

Tomorrow will be lock down...
a small sample of good and bad...

Here is a freaky one... Bad obviously..
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Good..
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Bad..
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Good..
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Over all, 16 out of 25 going into lock down tomorrow.

nice!

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Sept batch on lock down till Saturday.. I will post pics and pass out cigars..

 

[ronott1]

Sept batch on lock down till Saturday.. I will post pics and pass out cigars..

Hatch cickies hatch!

 

[Crooked Chicken]

I picked up a Little Giant Still Air Incubator at our local Orscheln last week. I set it up the day before putting eggs in and the temp and humidity were good. I put a batter operated temp/humidity gauge inside.

On 9/29/17 I put 8 eggs in -- 7 Barred Rock and 1 EE.

I used somebody else's idea of cutting bottoms out of an egg carton to put the eggs in and tilt the whole incubator 3 or 4 times a day.

I really dislike this incubator -- the temp gauge is not accurate at all and temperature fluctuates a lot. And that stupid little temperature probe -- I taped it to an empty dog food container so that it sits about same height as top of eggs. Bad design - it should be in a fixed position instead of flopping around when the lid is opened.

Around the end of day 1 I found it had gotten too hot. I end up having to crack the lid a smidge if humidity gets too high and then adjust temp. I now keep a closer eye on the temp. I will candle them tomorrow (7 days) and see if I can see anything.

 

[ronott1]

I picked up a Little Giant Still Air Incubator at our local Orscheln last week. I set it up the day before putting eggs in and the temp and humidity were good. I put a batter operated temp/humidity gauge inside.

On 9/29/17 I put 8 eggs in -- 7 Barred Rock and 1 EE.

I used somebody else's idea of cutting bottoms out of an egg carton to put the eggs in and tilt the whole incubator 3 or 4 times a day.

I really dislike this incubator -- the temp gauge is not accurate at all and temperature fluctuates a lot. And that stupid little temperature probe -- I taped it to an empty dog food container so that it sits about same height as top of eggs. Bad design - it should be in a fixed position instead of flopping around when the lid is opened.

Around the end of day 1 I found it had gotten too hot. I end up having to crack the lid a smidge if humidity gets too high and then adjust temp. I now keep a closer eye on the temp. I will candle them tomorrow (7 days) and see if I can see anything.

this is a good time of the year to watch for good used incubators on Craig's list

 

[Crooked Chicken]

this is a good time of the year to watch for good used incubators on Craig's list

That's a great idea! They only had 2 in the store -- the other was same brand, but larger and had the auto egg turner. I'm going to take a look at CL a bit later.

 

[ronott1]

That's a great idea! They only had 2 in the store -- the other was same brand, but larger and had the auto egg turner. I'm going to take a look at CL a bit later.

I hope you find one!

 

[Crooked Chicken]

I hope you find one!

Like this? https://kansascity.craigslist.org/grd/d/antique-incubator/6290009373.html

jk -- I just started looking