The Middle Tennessee Thread

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Dodge-em yes I try to go everytime. I'm addicted!lol. I did see you last time,I will introduce myself next time I see you.I've been putting together cages today so I'll be taking a bunch of stuff tomorrow.

Country punk,they don't usually do the teenage ones! Empty your mailbox!

 

[DMRippy]

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I also built an incubator this year. I tested mine back in May. I used 40% or higher the first 18 days ( for the humidity ), and over 70% for lockdown. I had 3/5 hatch on their own, 1 we had to take out (that was awful but it is still alive ), and one drowned in the shell. My second hatch, I did dry incubation, with no water till lockdown. After lockdown I targeted 60% and got a great hatch. 8/13 on eggs shipped to me from Arkansas in 100+ degree heat. Hope you get it right. Do you have pics of it? I'd like to see. I built mine in a little 6 dollar beer cooler, but I bought a nice big 9 dollar beer cooler to move everything over into!

Mine is in a cabinet that we pulled out of my house. It had trays for pots and pans and we are using them for the eggs and we are trying to make an egg turner. It seems to be holding temps between 98.9 and 100.8 both the high and the low only last a few seconds. My lights cycle pretty frequently. We are going to try to finish the turner tomorrow and then run it for a couple of days again to make sure everything is working. I have not worked on the humidity thought I would try dry incubation.

I have been taking lots of pictures since I can't really find a good example of egg turners so I want to show every detail. I will put some up on my page soon I promise.

 

[Countrypunk92]

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Sweet. Got 19 chicks developing perfect in the incubator. 18 did not develop at all. Prolly not fertle.

 

[matlock585]

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I also built an incubator this year. I tested mine back in May. I used 40% or higher the first 18 days ( for the humidity ), and over 70% for lockdown. I had 3/5 hatch on their own, 1 we had to take out (that was awful but it is still alive ), and one drowned in the shell. My second hatch, I did dry incubation, with no water till lockdown. After lockdown I targeted 60% and got a great hatch. 8/13 on eggs shipped to me from Arkansas in 100+ degree heat. Hope you get it right. Do you have pics of it? I'd like to see. I built mine in a little 6 dollar beer cooler, but I bought a nice big 9 dollar beer cooler to move everything over into!

Mine is in a cabinet that we pulled out of my house. It had trays for pots and pans and we are using them for the eggs and we are trying to make an egg turner. It seems to be holding temps between 98.9 and 100.8 both the high and the low only last a few seconds. My lights cycle pretty frequently. We are going to try to finish the turner tomorrow and then run it for a couple of days again to make sure everything is working. I have not worked on the humidity thought I would try dry incubation.

I have been taking lots of pictures since I can't really find a good example of egg turners so I want to show every detail. I will put some up on my page soon I promise.

I work in a sheet metal shop with all kinds of good stuff, 1" to 4" thick insulation board and more metal than you can shake a stick at. I want a big bator and a separate hatcher, but I've gotta ramp up to it. I'm having trouble managing the 20 something I have here now. I've got the room to do it, I just need the adequate pens and housing and such. And some one to buy all the feed. Maybe I'll try that community chicken farming thing we discussed much earlier in this thread!

 

[DMRippy]

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Mine is in a cabinet that we pulled out of my house. It had trays for pots and pans and we are using them for the eggs and we are trying to make an egg turner. It seems to be holding temps between 98.9 and 100.8 both the high and the low only last a few seconds. My lights cycle pretty frequently. We are going to try to finish the turner tomorrow and then run it for a couple of days again to make sure everything is working. I have not worked on the humidity thought I would try dry incubation.

I have been taking lots of pictures since I can't really find a good example of egg turners so I want to show every detail. I will put some up on my page soon I promise.

I work in a sheet metal shop with all kinds of good stuff, 1" to 4" thick insulation board and more metal than you can shake a stick at. I want a big bator and a separate hatcher, but I've gotta ramp up to it. I'm having trouble managing the 20 something I have here now. I've got the room to do it, I just need the adequate pens and housing and such. And some one to buy all the feed. Maybe I'll try that community chicken farming thing we discussed much earlier in this thread!

This bator can hold 8 doz eggs

I would like to have a separate hatcher but I did make room for one in the bottom of this bator. I just don't think it will hold 96 babies at one time

I feel your pain. I bought the chickens and then built the pens. I now have 4 pens that could hold 25-35 birds. I just have too many roos for my few girls so they are penned in one of my pens for now. I need breeding pens and then a bachelor pen for the meat birds and extra roos. I also need to make my brooder for these soon to hatch babies and get my pens in real working order for each breed of birds. Don't I also need a growing pen? My plan is to sell babies and hatching eggs/ eating eggs (to pay for the feed) and then to replace my laying flock every year and a half or so.

Hubby just figured out what I need for the egg turner so wish me luck tomorrow getting it finished

 

[Jenski]

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Hey matlock, sorry to hear about your hen. You might check the bottom of the foot carefully (uncurl it gently and make sure there's no dirt covering it). Could she have bumblefoot, or even just a cut? The bottom of the foot is a very common place for scratches and punctures.

Can you tell if it's her foot that's injured, and not her hock or hip? What's her coloring like? Is she pale?

Keep us posted on how things go.

 

[HBuehler]

Ethan wanted to go to the tractor pull so we went to the fair last night...I got my Yearly education in chicken breeds so I thought I would pass it on

I feel real bad for the judges-they are driving hours to judge this show.
There is a new color in Plymouth Rocks...Light Rocks..man I thought it was Lite beer not Rocks

Lots of them there too They look like a Delaware cross mutt
Also saw those single comb Doms
I have to contact the Ameraucana Organization to find out more about this new color Multi-Color..I thought Lavender was going to be the next color accepted this one must have snuck in under the radar
But I'm just crushed all the time and effort into my Wyandotte's and I must have the tail wrong..all of these "show birds" have closed tails like Rocks and mine have tee-pee tails.Guess I won't be able to take any to Crossroads to show

 

[DMRippy]

Did you get pictures???? I can't find anything on either of those color varieties either. Would it be worth a trip to the fair to see?

 

[HBuehler]

Oh please don't take me seriously...yes that's what the owners listed them as but there is no such thing...that's the quality of the birds that is at the fair...very bad

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Holly, I have only been to that fair once and like you I was astonished at the "breeds" that were being "shown and judged"! Can't believe who ever is in charge wool allow them to even be left I coops to be seen! That's why so many people think their mutts are worth as much or more than really good purebred stock. Needless to say I saw no point in going to see the birds there again,Lolita really disappointing when we try so hard to breed the "perfect"bird .oh well I guess life is full of disillousions,the same thing happened when I was a young police officer and was a witness for the local sherrifs office on a case in court(my first time in court). I came away from there thinking"and this is what-to serve and protect. And uphold the law means!"lol big disappointment!