Okey dokey! Booger, Blackie & Spot are all settled in at the Puyallup Fair! My DD's and I will be there all day on Saturday and then the afternoon & evening on Sunday!
I had lat and long for the experiment. Then minutes of daylight for each locale was calculated from NASA and NOAA daylight software. It was a tremendous amount of data crunching, but kind of fun.
Thank you for the offer! It takes 21 days to hatch eggs in an incubator, correct? I actually have a Little Giant incubator that I have used to hatch reptile eggs, but it does not have the turner for chicken eggs. Let me think about it overnight. I might go with your blue laced reds and skip the feed store silver laced. I still want a silver laced Polish, but I think I would be fine going with a BLR instead of the impossible-to-find Columbian.
No need to light the run, as they won't go out into it if it's dark and they can't see. They can't see at all in the dark! I have the timers set to come on both morning and evening. Some folks just do morning, as they fear that their birds won't roost in time before the lights go off at night, but I've never had that happen......that I know of.Thank you everyone who responded about lighting! WOW, I will most definitely be using lighting. I have electrical run to the coop, I have a light in there, I have a timer on the outlet, so this is a no brainer. Do most of you provide it in the morning or at night? Because my worry is that I would have to have the light come on at 2:30am in December just to get the bare minimum of 14 hours of daylight!Also, would it be good to run some lights in the chicken run too, since that's where they spend most of their time? I was thinking LED outdoor christmas strands all the way around the top of the inside of the roofed run. WDYT?
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Just let me know. My BLRW are my absolute favorites, and we have alot of birds.
Oh, you can borrow my LG Turner if you want. I only use the LG for hatching these days.......enabler?!?!? Who? Me?!?!?!!? LOL!!!!
And yes, 21 days to hatch.
There was also an ad in the Buy/Sell/Trade I saw yesterday for Light Brahma eggs, which are columbian.....https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ment-lt-brahmas-dominique-black-copper-marans
If you got them and we timed it right, you could hatch both!!!! And that is how chicken math works!!! LOL!!!
Quote: I feel the same way. I don't provide any supplemental light. I just go with what I have, but then again my family doesn't eat 3.5 doz eggs per week either. That's alot of eggs, your girls better get busy!
