She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[AmyLynn2374]

More capacity with hand turning
Can't blame you there

I can't be around to turn them, unfortunately

I was fooling with the idea of putting the eggs on cheesecloth, and just pulling the cloth to turn them.
Leave both ends hanging out the bator with one end longer than the other, so you know which way to turn/pull.

Ain't tried it tho

I don't plan on doing any more large hatches. I did a full bator last year and had 33 hatch, and the broodiing was a pain...lol Way too many too keep track of. If I ever get to the point that I am hatching to sell as "day old" straight run chicks, then I'd do it, but not for myself. I'd rather do a dozen or two, at a time and do more more hatches per season than do one or two big hatches. I've also found that the few the chicks the more personable they see to be. My two highest hatch rates were the two that I hand turned. I don't know if it was a coincidence or not, but I'm keeping with it. Less adjusting at lockdown when the turner is taken out too and the bator looses the heat from the turner motor. In other incubators it may not make a big difference but I really notice it in the LG 9200.
I know I want to do the silkie hatch and maybe I'll throw in 3 or 4 of my bantam eggs when I do that. I want to either attempt to figure out which of my eggs are the Spitz's or get another dozen from the girl I got these from. And I really want to find some decent SG eggs. I'll probably throw 1/2 a dozen of my ee/nn eggs in there at some point as well to try to get a couple more olive/green eggers. My father really likes the green ones. They have huge dark yolks.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

It has been brought to my attention by one of the "Locals",

here on this thread that I am not spending enough time out in the forums. This is 110% true as I am stretched quite thin these days....saving my entire flock from what WAS a mystery disease, being complete life support for a hen that has developed heart failure, (I have brought this bird back to life from cardiac arrest several times this past week) (the dang bird must have 9 lives like a cat) and of course my main job here on BYC as "School Marm" or "Church Lady" if you prefer!

(goes completely against my grain of my normally obnoxious ways of doing the (fill in the blank here) ______ dance.

I have made a promise to this "Local" and will do my best to misbehave as much as possible!

Y'all have a fab day!!!!

Misbehave....you'll fit right in....lol Especially with that one down there.

Um, yeah. This thread. This is definitely the one you want to be on

What frog? Who said anything about a frog?

 

[scflock]

Misbehave....you'll fit right in....lol Especially with that one down there.

Two crows has posted on my thread. I'm pretty sure it was a Friday night

 

[FridayYet]

Two crows has posted on my thread. I'm pretty sure it was a Friday night

 

[WVduckchick]

Wasn't our fault...

 

[LocalYokel]

 

[TwoCrows]

Quote: Yeah, this thread could get me into a lot of trouble, that is for sure.

Frogs?? What frogs....little green ones, big brown ones, bull or otherwise??

We gots ground frogs that only come out once a year during the rainy season to eat and mate. They can stay underground for years in a coma like state and continue to survive without any added food or water.

 

[TwoCrows]

Yo, Friday...are you in NM??

 

[TwoCrows]

I gotta disappear for a while.....Y'all behave!

 

[Tumbling K]

Yeah, this thread could get me into a lot of trouble, that is for sure.

Frogs?? What frogs....little green ones, big brown ones, bull or otherwise??

We gots ground frogs that only come out once a year during the rainy season to eat and mate. They can stay underground for years in a coma like state and continue to survive without any added food or water.

he said frog? thank goodness no one said frawg!