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[Cynthia12]

I'm trying to keep the most accurate thermometer right at 100 but it Keeps fluctuating anytime I touch it to try to make it 100 and making me nervous. Is it ok if that one goes down to 97-99, and then sometimes goes up to 101 ? The other thermometer I have in there with it is the one you used and it's always about two numbers behind.

I would go with the one I used..and keep it around 99 or 100.

 

[Iluvmysilkies]

I would go with the one I used..and keep it around 99 or 100.

Okay. The only reason I followed the other one (same brand but has wire probe) is because it was the easiest one to compare with a digital oral thermometer. Its alot faster and seemed to be right on with the oral thermometer when I checked my own temperature with it, and when I placed them in warm water. The other one (you used) seemed to always be at least two numbers behind and is alot slower. So I just put them both in and feel unsure which one to follow. If I left the one you used at 99 then it would make the one with the probe 101. If there's a chance however that the one with the probe is the most accurate then will it hurt the eggs being at 101?
Update: I stuck the oral thermometer into the crack where the plug is so its right in the middle of the incubator and it read exactely 99. So I guess it's still matching the thermometer with the probe. So currently its 99 on one and 97 on the other.

 

[youcluckingatme]

Is there a forum or page like ksl in Idaho?

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Is there a forum or page like ksl in Idaho?

There is the BYC Idaho thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/8042/idaho/3490#post_14146033

Also lots use Craig's list up there.....KSL still also, and a few facebook groups:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/445180078835674/802791996407812/?notif_t=group_activity

https://www.facebook.com/groups/754632287883012/843165042363069/?notif_t=group_activity

https://www.facebook.com/groups/318994734949655/342722605910201/?notif_t=group_activity

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Okay. The only reason I followed the other one (same brand but has wire probe) is because it was the easiest one to compare with a digital oral thermometer. Its alot faster and seemed to be right on with the oral thermometer when I checked my own temperature with it, and when I placed them in warm water. The other one (you used) seemed to always be at least two numbers behind and is alot slower. So I just put them both in and feel unsure which one to follow. If I left the one you used at 99 then it would make the one with the probe 101. If there's a chance however that the one with the probe is the most accurate then will it hurt the eggs being at 101? 
Update: I stuck the oral thermometer into the crack where the plug is so its right in the middle of the incubator and it read exactely 99. So I guess it's still matching the thermometer with the probe. So currently its 99 on one and 97 on the other. 

 

[themadchicken]

Hi everyone, i have been gone for a few days deer hunting and just got back this afternoon. Lots of post to read through but finally did it. Before i left i told my family i wanted to hatch some OE/Silkie mix and to start collecting the green eggs. After five days i only have three eggs and only one is dark green and it is smaller and skinnier then the others. I think it may be from my new OE but not what i wanted to hatch. I was hoping to hatch from my 1-1/2 yr olds because they are a nice blue color and have lots of people offer to buy them just for their color. Not sure why they have stopped laying. has anyone elses hens slowed down? I cant remember when to start adding extra light does anyone know if its time yet? Sorry about all the questions but i have 5 days in the mountains all by myself with lots of time to think, and of coarse it was about chickens. LOL...

Is anyone interested in some fertile Silkie eggs. Not SQ but really pretty PQ. I have a white hen that is full bearded with a big crest, a splash hen that is bearded and a small crest and a buff hen that is non bearded. Unfortunately i cant tell the eggs apart. My sizzle hasn't started to lay again and my new splash hasn't started to lay, still to young i think. I hate to just eat them. You might get a B-EE because her eggs look so close to the Silkie eggs.

Does anyone know or have a picture of a LF Cochin Hen crossed with a Silkie roo. And is it even possible due to all the feathers. My Cochins have so many feathers they still look huge and fluffy when soaking wet from the rain.

 

[acemario]

Hi everyone, i have been gone for a few days deer hunting and just got back this afternoon. Lots of post to read through but finally did it. Before i left i told my family i wanted to hatch some OE/Silkie mix and to start collecting the green eggs. After five days i only have three eggs and only one is dark green and it is smaller and skinnier then the others. I think it may be from my new OE but not what i wanted to hatch. I was hoping to hatch from my 1-1/2 yr olds because they are a nice blue color and have lots of people offer to buy them just for their color. Not sure why they have stopped laying. has anyone elses hens slowed down? I cant remember when to start adding extra light does anyone know if its time yet? Sorry about all the questions but i have 5 days in the mountains all by myself with lots of time to think, and of coarse it was about chickens. LOL...

Is anyone interested in some fertile Silkie eggs. Not SQ but really pretty PQ. I have a white hen that is full bearded with a big crest, a splash hen that is bearded and a small crest and a buff  hen that is non bearded. Unfortunately i cant tell the eggs apart. My sizzle hasn't started to lay again and my new splash hasn't started to lay, still to young i think. I hate to just eat them. You might get a B-EE because her eggs look so close to the Silkie eggs. 

Does anyone know or have a picture of a LF Cochin Hen crossed with a Silkie roo. And is it even possible due to all the feathers. My Cochins have so many feathers they still look huge and fluffy when soaking wet from the rain.

Out of my 5 layers, only one is actually laying. One is broody and the rest are molting.

 

[acemario]

Who has some brown leghorns?!?! Or black or buff... Etc. basically anything other than white...

 

[Cynthia12]

Who has some brown leghorns?!?! Or black or buff... Etc. basically anything other than white...

I had those chicks come along..they are young though, I will be giving away what I don't want to keep..they sent sooo many extras! There are a couple of blacks in there .. sex links..I will keep one, and there are quite a few EE's, all looking like pullets! Puffy cheeks! Also, some reds, some white leghorns..I know, now whites.. A couple of chipmunk colors that are not EE's, do believe they are brown sex links. Anyway, not sure you are set up for babies or not..but putting this out there. I will keep them a while longer, they are going to go to the larger grow out pen in a while. Still pretty young and in the nursery out there with a heat lamp.

 

[acemario]

I had those chicks come along..they are young though, I will be giving away what I don't want to keep..they sent sooo many extras! There are a couple of blacks in there .. sex links..I will keep one, and there are quite a few EE's, all looking like pullets! Puffy cheeks! Also, some reds, some white leghorns..I know, now whites.. A couple of chipmunk colors that are not EE's, do believe they are brown sex links. Anyway, not sure you are set up for babies or not..but putting this out there. I will keep them a while longer, they are going to go to the larger grow out pen in a while. Still pretty young and in the nursery out there with a heat lamp.

Ha! I saw that! You hit the chick jackpot. I can just hear the workers now... "Hey... what are we supposed to do with all these extra chicks?!" "I don't know! Shove them in the box going to Utah!"

Thanks for the offer, but I am specifically looking for a leghorn other than white... I already have too much white in my flock!