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[Kilsharion]

my "americaunas" from ideal are definatly EE's....no muffs or cheeks, and missing the slate colored legs, but still beautiful!

Mine from Ideal have the muffs, slate legs, one of them is even **gasp** the proper colour plummage. No beards, though.

 

[chickletteSarge]

Mine from Ideal have the muffs, slate legs, one of them is even **gasp** the proper colour plummage. No beards, though.

mine have beards but no muffs!

 

[Cockle-Dood]

JEALOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[showbarnmom]

I love my fuzzy EE

 

[chickletteSarge]

started this thread earlier this mernin... if you have any input on the subject (im sure many here do) please, dont hesitate to add your knoledge!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/749273/tips-for-a-good-hatch-rate-for-shipped-eggs

 

[Kilsharion]

started this thread earlier this mernin... if you have any input on the subject (im sure many here do) please, dont hesitate to add your knoledge!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/749273/tips-for-a-good-hatch-rate-for-shipped-eggs

Wow...the guy in post #5 is something else....

I'm a bit nervous about my incubator. We are currently in the middle of a test hatch to see if we have built one that will actually work. My Red Dorking eggs from Dick Horstman arrive the end of Mar/beginning of Apr and I need to be certain my incubator will do the job properly.

So far, all is looking well. Air cell development is a little advanced; but, I upped the humidity a bit (40%) to slow it down a skosh and it seems to be doing the job. I'll probably drop back to dry incubation tomorrow or so. **crosses fingers**

I've got a herpstat thermostat that is keeping me within +/- .9 degrees, so that's spectacular. I have a humidity controller that's keeping me within +/- 2% of the humidity I want...that's decent. The ventilation seems to be pretty spot on. We have a vent hole right under the hair dryer (yes, that's how we are heating it) and so when it cuts on (on the low setting), it sucks fresh air in, heats it and shoves it into the plenum that then cycles it through the incubator.

So far, we've been staying between 99.3 and 100.1 for our temps.

12 more days to go...

 

[Kilsharion]

I love my fuzzy EE

The reddish-brown one?

 

[jockeyeba]

I love my fuzzy EE

pretty color but closer picture please

 

[yinepu]

started this thread earlier this mernin... if you have any input on the subject (im sure many here do) please, dont hesitate to add your knoledge!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/749273/tips-for-a-good-hatch-rate-for-shipped-eggs

Lol,.. I posted.. but there was no way I was gonna add a bunch of knowledge to it.. I figured if people want to know they can PM me

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Yeah.. ol Bill and I have had a few discussions..

he just comes off a bit gruff sometimes.. lol.. probably no worse than I do ... actually.. I have to believe a lot of people have me on "ignore" by now..

you'll be fine.. remember hatching is NOT rocket science.. you've seen my emu bator right now! eggs stacked all over them and my new bator is AWOL... grr I think Fedex is holding it hostage

besides.. you worry too much.. heck.. I stack eggs.. ignore them.. break all those new fangled "rules"

and still get tons of birds with no problem

repeat the mantra "incubation is easy.. incubation is easy..... incubation is easy..." then remember you are playing god.. lol

besides...those poor ol hens have been doing it for a heck of a long time.. with no fancy equipment..

 

[yinepu]

Quote: did you clicky on it?.. I did.. it got BIG