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

[Cynthia12]

Im setting 83 eggs

27 duck 56 chicken

 

[Happy Chooks]

By request, here is another contest!​

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Contest #13​

6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long​

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WET POULTRY CONTEST!​

2014 winner austinbndr28
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Show us your most soaked fowl!​

For prizes and details, go here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...for-the-6th-annual-byc-easter-hatchalong/0_50​

 

[Cynthia12]

Love that wet fowl one..fun to look at those photos.

 

[StacyAK]

24 chicken eggs

 

[bantambury]

Getting my eggs ready to set. helping a horse show tomorrow, so I will have to set tonight.

yay! im eggcited to see how things go!

 

[KYTinpusher]

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Oh, maaannn!!! I SO could have gotten some of these today - I even thought about taking the camera out there!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Love that wet fowl one..fun to look at those photos.

We try to change some contests every year to make it fun, but we do listen to requests!

 

[coop410silkies]

[COLOR=008080]Ok, I went through all this trouble to wire a STC-1000 digital temperature controller to my LG incubator, and technically, it is working correctly, but honestly, I am not very happy with it so far![/COLOR] [COLOR=008080] The temperature seems to swing a lot more than it did when using the regular LG thermostat.  I have a Fahrenheit thermometer probe that I calibrated in the incubator, and it has max/min recall, so I placed it in different corners of the incubator and tested the temperature range.  It swings from 97.5º to 103.8º in the same spot over 4-5 minutes!!!![/COLOR] [COLOR=008080] I definitely do not remember having this much of a temp swing before!  [/COLOR]:/

[COLOR=008080]Now I kind of understand why it is happening - I have the digital controller set at 38º Celcius (because 37.5 didn't get the temp high enough), and it has a .3º Celcius "Difference Set Value" before it clicks the heater on, so if I have it set at 38º Celcius, it waits until the controller probe reads 37.7º before switching ON the heater, but it drops to 37.3º while the heater starts warming up the temperature, and then it does turn OFF the heater right at 38º but the residual heat continues to climb until it reads 39.7º C or 103.8º F before starting to drop back down.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=008080]Now this is with an empty incubator, so I assume it will be more stable when it is full of eggs, but do you think I should be worried about the temp swing, or just average out the high & low temps and call it good?[/COLOR]

Oooh, Joyful, I'm happy to hear you got your thermostat wired up OK. I have a slightly different version of this thermostat wired into my Hovabator; the temperature differential on the WH7016 is 1* and the Hbator NEVER goes above 100*. It often drops lower than 99* and it takes a bit of time to get back up to 100*, so I think my hatches in it ran on the low side. I've thought about setting it a little higher, as you have done, and I've thought about replacing the little 25 watt heating element with a quicker responding heat source (?light bulb), but the Bator box is so shallow it's hard to do safely. Sooo, I'm using it as is for the time being. 103 is kind of high. When I put my eggs in, the temperature drops a couple of degrees for awhile, and then it stabilizes between 99 and 100. If you think your temps are too high, you can try placing the sensor up closer to the heat source, so it gets up to temp faster and shuts off earlier. I, too, have an independent temperature sensor probe that actually hardly ever agrees with my thermostat probe, but ALL (I have several) of my digital thermostat sensors agree within a few 1/10's of a degree of each other. Your LG is a circulated air Bator, yes? I tried testing the temps in different locations in my HB, and I was actually surprised at how consistent they were. Your dilemma makes me want to test them again. What do you think of putting your probe inside a "gelatin" filled plastic egg? GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR HATCH.

 

[Cynthia12]

We try to change some contests every year to make it fun, but we do listen to requests!

That's great, fun contests so far. It's going to be interesting tomorrow..next couple of days..next couple of weeks..oh well, until next month.

 

[bantambury]

just fired up my bator. ill post final egg count tomorrow...or the next day depending if i throw another in. i didn't wash my bator (only with dish soap the last time i used it) or the egg turner....do any of you wash yalls turners?




@PaisyQ
i have the farmers innovator 4200, and actually just fired it up! i love it! if you have any questions, feel free to ask about it!


@Happy Chooks will there be the decorated egg contest this year??