We just got home with 144 eggs from our trip, SFH from KYTINPUSHER, White Crested Lavender Polish and White Crested Black Polish from our Cleveland stop, and last but not least about8 dozen from CPL with few goose eggs. Here we go.
We started with Styrofoam incubators and had some success but was not happy, we now have GQF Sportsmans and a digital hatcher and love them. We raise a lot of rare and od chickens including Bourbon Red turkeys and I agree diversity is awesome. We are just trying to fine tune it to save time and...
Donna I like what, I see. I only have one with wire on the bottom. I am planning to start putting wire in the ones in the breeze way with a slide out tray.
We took the tack room in the barn which is semi insulated, with a concrete floor(soon to have a steel door due to rats chewing through it and killed about 30 chicks). I first built a large brooder box with outlets in it(an old counter from a parts store converted), then on top of it I used some...
Hello my name is Steven me and my wife Tiffany do not have a problem. We took 176 chicks out of the Thatcher this morning but that's not abnormal right? Of course not. They were all cute so that makes it right.
So I repeat I do not have a problem.
We just transferred a ton of chicks from the hatcher to the brooder. Spitzhaubens, welsummers, Rhodebars, Orpingtons, Bielefelders, Jubilees, Barred Rocks, Augsburgers and more. Yea
Just stopping n to say we still have not shut down our incubator(sportsman 1502) for now a year, we did shut down the hatcher for cleaning. It will be off for a whole week.