Texas

[Cockle-Dood]

Knobby, you hatching any of your BA eggs? Or is she layin yet?

 

[misskeeter]

Our lake is at 38%. They say we only have a year of water left unless we get major rain.... here's the "lake"...

 

[misskeeter]

All that dirt is supposed to be water....

 

[yardbird432]

What lake is that supposed to be?

 

[KnobbyOaks]

Knobby, you hatching any of your BA eggs? Or is she layin yet?

Naw, I'm not hatching. We don't have a rooster among other things.

 

[showbarnmom]

Must be lake mc queeny

 

[yardbird432]

All of our lakes are probably right around 20-30% full, which is a bummer

 

[bnjrob]

Which means the money from the four bridesmaids dresses are going to go to a good incubator. Any suggestions as to which one I should get? Financing is limited by the way since I also need to start looking into building a breeding pen.

The only thing I don't like about Brinsea so far is the price. I love my little Brinsea - throw the eggs in and pretty much forget about them till they hatch. A bell tells you when it is turning the eggs, so you know that it is working. And it will tell you if the power went out. Fully adjustable on all controls from humidity, temp, how often it turns, the angle it turns, ability to have a cooling off period. Spent the extra money to get the one with the humidity pump. The little one only holds 7 eggs at a time, which is a pain. Would like to get a bigger one when I can afford it.

Have a Hovabator Genesis. So far it is not impressing me much. It doesn't keep the temp or humidity constant as well as the Brinsea, which is an issue because we don't have central heat/air. Got the Genesis to be a hatcher, so I didn't get the egg turner that goes in it, so don't know how well that works. I did find an after market humidity pump that I am getting ready to install into the Genesis and see how that works. I really dislike having to pour water into open channels in the incubator for humidity. This after market pump comes with the pump and tubing and you use a plastic bottle full of water and then it will pump the water onto the humidity paper that is inside the incubator. Hoping it does well and should be less mess than the open water trays in the thing, theoretically making it less work.

 

[bnjrob]

All that dirt is supposed to be water....

That is kinda scary.

 

[bnjrob]

I think I have a way around the clothes part. My sister doesn't have chickens and she only lives a few miles away from me. I could stop by, change and shower, then leave my clothes to be washed at her house. As far as the birds, can't you keep them in quarantine? I want to show them, what precautions can I take to do it as safely as possible?

Quarantine is an option, if you have the room. The rest of the flock doesn't need to be able to even breathe the same air as the bird that left the premises, since so many respiratory diseases are easily spread. You're talking a minimum 2 weeks quarantine, although a month or more is better, since some things have a longer incubation period.

Don't forget that birds that show must have typhoid/pullorum testing done.