Hacthing eggs in the old days

Hi everyone ,

Since I don't have grandparents and my parents don't know :-(. I was wondering how did people hacth there eggs back in the day when there where no incubaters ? Wanted to try and hacth some , this because once and a while we lose power for up to 24 hrs . Due to stret work in our area.


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toze777 said:

Hi everyone ,

Since I don't have grandparents and my parents don't know :-(. I was wondering how did people hacth there eggs back in the day when there where no incubaters ? Wanted to try and hacth some , this because once and a while we lose power for up to 24 hrs . Due to stret work in our area.


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Well....they had incubators "back in the day" that did not run on electricity, believe it or not, plus they had chickens hatching their own eggs. You might find this interesting:https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.451559868263676.1073741905.365743116845352&type=3
It's a little history of vintage incubators and how the incubated w/o electricity.

Yeah, many people seem to think that everything is new and created by this generation. There have been tremendous recent advances but even the ancient Egyptians were incubating eggs and brooding chicks. I think that is a great question and I like AmyLynn’s link. Here’s another link to back up what I said.

http://www.worldpoultry.net/Breeder...ans-hatch-eggs-the-traditional-way-WP008725W/

The traditional way for the vast majority of people was to use a broody hen but you can’t control when a hen goes broody. Hatching without a dependable source of power is hard. A short loss of power isn’t that bad with a well-insulated incubator. The egg is a lot denser than air and takes a lot longer to cool down. The eggs can handle a small drop in temperature, more so later in incubation when the chick is generating some heat of its own.

But day-long power outages is a lot. You need to figure out how to add heat without cooking the eggs. Too hot is more dangerous than a little cool though they can normally handle a degree or maybe two without a big problem. I don’t have any bright ideas on how to do that. Maybe come up with a way to circulate warm water through there without overheating it?

Good luck!