The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Happy Chooks]

Yes, set your mallards, turkeys, guineas, goose and pheasant eggs today!

 

[jbkirk]

Experience and look at what the hatcheries sell - all the sex links, comets, etc are mixed breeds and the highest layers.

Ah but do they actually lay more in the long run?

 

[minihorse927]

my fan also is on all the time....if you dont have the fan running all the time you will get hot spots...all incubator that have fans run all the time


if its coming from the southeast like georgia be aware that most all packages have not moved from fedex...my package is still sitting in georgia and the delivery time is today....and thats not gunna happen...they are having alot of issues with the interstates down there and some of them are actually shut down
so dont expect it to show up on time if it does great...but just to let you know
right from the fed ex website..
[COLOR=FF0000]The winter storm that brought hazardous conditions across the southeastern and northeastern U.S.[/COLOR]

you will do great with the wine cooler i have faith in you....alot of people on here to help

hello and welcome to byc my fellow chickener.....lol

according to FedEx it sitting chillicothe Ohio at their delivery location. Somehow or another that one made it through the winter storm. I'm not sure how. I'm sitting in one of the worst hit areas under 18 inches of snow. It was only shipped out on Thursday.

 

[birdman55]

glad thing yours made it thru my order was placed on wed as its still in ga....
as for the wiring if you go to the pages i told you about it has plenty of pics and step by steps...if you still have questions pm me ill give you my number and we can talk directly
figured i would post a couple of pics as well

 

[jbkirk]

glad thing yours made it thru my order was placed on wed as its still in ga....
as for the wiring if you go to the pages i told you about it has plenty of pics and step by steps...if you still have questions pm me ill give you my number and we can talk directly
figured i would post a couple of pics as well

Very cute chicks. Oh and I see the dog that is doing a good job guarding the jail and the chickens are having as conference about how to get past him.

 

[JoyfulPromise]

The wiring is a bit tricky - I started off doing it wrong because I incorrectly assumed it was wired up like my original thermocouple. It is wired in groups of three wires. One set of three is the live line, and the other set is neutral. Do each set one at a time. I put a little bit of electrical tape on my live lines in order to make sure I grabbed the right one. For the live line, you should have the ribbed live line in from the extension cord, a short line from bank #5, and a short line from bank #1 all wired together with a wire nut. By the looks of your unit, you may have to add a length of wire to each of the wires coming off of your heater in order to for all the wires to reach each other when you wire everything together. The live wires will be the ones without any markings (no side stripe, and on the extension cord, the side without the ribbed edge. For the neutral lines, you want to connect the ribbed neutral line from the extension cord, the striped wire leading into the heater, and a short length of wire from bank #2 all together with a wire nut. The unmarked live wire off of the heater connects directly to bank #6. Take a separate cord and wire it to the hot and neutral wires of your fan to plug in separately.
Once everything is hooked up, the unit automatically starts in cooling mode. When you set your incubation temperature to 37.5 and save the value, the unit will automatically switch to heating mode without any additional programming. It took me a few tries here to realize that you had to save each value after you changed it! Once your temperature is set, the unit should turn the heater on automatically.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!!!

Your clear explanation was the last piece I needed to understand this wiring puzzle!!! I followed your directions, aaaand... IT WORKS!!!

I am now an expert Electrician!

Hurray!!! I now have a digital Incubator!!!

Now to test it for a while to check temperature maintainance, collect my eggs next week, hopefully receive my shipped Ameraucana eggs in the mail safely

, and be all ready to set them next Saturday!!!!

 

[bradahale]

I will be joining in and hatching coturnix quail!

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!!!

Your clear explanation was the last piece I needed to understand this wiring puzzle!!! I followed your directions, aaaand... IT WORKS!!!

I am now an expert Electrician!

Hurray!!! I now have a digital Incubator!!!

Now to test it for a while to check temperature maintainance, collect my eggs next week, hopefully receive my shipped Ameraucana eggs in the mail safely

, and be all ready to set them next Saturday!!!!

YAY!!!

 

[mlm Mike]

fireman0298, casportpony, JeanneBaby76, aarbeau1984, Mermaid909, and bradahale

Welcome to the 2015 Easter Hatch A Long!

participant list up to date to post 2458

 

[Cynthia12]

And what prof is there of this?

Ha Ha ron, I know my sexlinks are better layers than most of my pures. Or..are they considered pure now? lol..I know my leghorns are always great. My sexlinks and my leghorns are an egg a day for a lot time without going broody. I'm excited..my black sexlink pullet was checking out a nest box today..any time now!