resurrecting this thread because I was reading through it today and stumbled upon this. I HAD TO LAUGH.Mortie: I laugh in your general direction. May I quote you next spring... when you fire up your incubator again? I think you just said something like, "A cardboard box will do for a brooder, because I'm only going to do it once." Yes, a cardboard box will be just fine, the ultimate disposable, burnable, compostable brooder... but, you will be doing it again. It's addictive. That incubator will be calling your name next spring!!!
Last year, i swore up and down I would never hatch again. Only hatching I would be doing would be under a broody.
And here I am. Eggs in the incubator. The one I borrowed and have not returned yet... They're for a friend, but Lazy Gardener called it right. *sigh*