Show off your Delawares! *PIC HEAVY*

[Laney]

Just a warning.... keep watch on my hatching thread...the Pips have started

And first off the mark is a Delaware!

Laney

 

[Cetawin]

woot go babies go babies

 

[joletabey]

Laney- YAY! More Del babies!!! Glad you got home safe, hope your girl gets well fast- it's good you got out of here- we got close to 12 inches on the farm.

Who asked what we do when it snows? Tacey? We shovel and slog our way through it to get to the outbuildings to feed the animals, and we jump in our 4 wheel drive with snow tires to get anywhere else.

Cetawin- Give Cannonball a BIG pancake for laying her first egg- and do forgive her for biting- attaboy Thor, no kidding- what WOULD a Thor/Cannonball baby look like?

Good luck, Jeremy and good morning everyone else!!! I am off to shovel out part of the run for those spoiled Del darlings of mine- BTW, Lizzie and Cora are squatting these last few days. . . . .maybe Cannonball has been doing a little mindspeaking?

 

[speckledhen]

Jeremy, which digital is it? Aren't mercury thermometers only reliable when inside liquid or touching something; in other words, they don't read air temps well, IMO. Also, is it really a mercury one or an alcohol one? The reason I don't think they read air temps well is that, when you sit one on a counter in the house, it doesn't read the house temp, but stays to the point it was shaken down last time it was used.

Your Genesis is preset, so I would think both your thermometers are wrong. You might call the company that makes the Genesis in Savannah, GA and ask if the preset ones are mostly right on when folks get them.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, I did it. Three of them are for sale.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3729877#p3729877

 

[joletabey]

OK, you did it! And I am really glad to see the clause about housing- that is what always worries me about selling or giving away any of our feathered or furred family. Good luck.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, someone's feelings may get hurt over it or they may give me negative feedback, but each of these girls was hatched here and have lived in draft-free, dry housing for their entire lives. None has had any respiratory illness of any type, either, so I want them to go to a home with decent management.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Cyn....I don't blame you AT ALL!! If someone wants to be offended....so be it! Those are your babies and there is nothing wrong with wanting them to go to a place where you know that they will be properly cared for.

IF someone gets offended, chances are they aren't serious about this business anyway!!! I would think most folks would feel the same way if the tables were turned.

I wish I could take them...but I really wouldn't want Pepper to be picked on and I don't think he's "man enough" to pile drive those girls if they needed it

 

[speckledhen]

I agree, Scott. I don't want Pepper to have the same problem as Isaac. And they'd teach yours to do the same thing, I bet, but there is an outside chance that a new environment or new rooster would help. If not, they're still fabulous layers and Kira's eggs are HUGE.

 

[jeremy]

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All of the instructions that came with the 1588 said it was preset to 99 degrees, all you had to do was put the eggs in a tada, 21 days later, chicks. (That's the main reason I purchased it.) I bought this hydrometer to help me keep and eye on humidity throughout incubation. The thermometer that was included with the incubator I believe is mercury, the instructions also said to keep this thermometer on top of the eggs during the incubation period, maybe because there weren't any eggs in there when I did the test run that's where the variance came from?

Grr... that's all I don't need/want, two incorrect thermometers.

Funny though, I almost ordered Brinsea's spot check last night because I was having my doubts too. Maybe now I will.