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Built my own. I get great hatches every time.

They are out for the year, predator issue..... But thanks for the lead.

Does anyone know where can I find some good Silver Laced Wyandottes, day old, shipped to Texas? I'd like to avoid getting poor quality hatchery birds as I view that a waste of time when I want to properly patterned/colored. I'm not looking to pay an arm and leg for some super show winning line...

They were packed in eggs flats, inside a box with ventilation holes (designed for shipping eggs). Air cells looked normal, didn't really see any problems. And there really wasn't any problems, just got a lot of infertile eggs. Not a big deal to me as I got what I wanted out of them (additional...

Sally, Texas A&M University eggs were shipped (Texas A&M Leghorn line). During winter, by Greyhound. I ordered 6 dozen, placed 66 in the incubator, a few were broken and a couple weren't proper size/shape to try and incubate. Of the 66, 20 were infertile and another 14 didn't hatch. The...

Sally, took a picture this evening after dark with the incubator lights on. Also took one of the heat, fans (one fan, has another on the other end as well as an additional heat element) and the turning motor. Added another 163 eggs this evening - 48 White Leghorn, 25 Welsummer, 10 Americana...

OZEXPAT, 1 rpm auger motor that is used in pellet stoves.

Heat and fans are at the top. Next time you are in a store with a cooler like this, poke your head inside and you'll see 2 fans that circulate the air across the AC. I replaced those fans with higher CFM fans (also draw less power, 25 watts each) and placed my heat (ceramic cones with the coils...

Good job! Glad you had great success! I promised to post pics of the incubator I built, been busy at work (and home) but just went out and too a couple. Only have 3 trays in it at the moment But will add more each week. Sorry about the flash and it was a bit hard to get far enough back to get...

A PID may or may not be the way to go with a small table top incubator. They usually have everything built in and will hatch eggs. But if you are building something cooler size and larger with forced air circulation, I know of nothing affordable that would do better at controlling your temp...

OZ, I used this one http://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=106 but I've seen others on places like EBay and such that look exactly the same. Auberins has their name on it and I don't know if the components inside are any different or not. Could be it's the...

I have built and hatch tons of chicks from my incubator. Used a 3 door drink cooler like you'd find at a convenience store. All digitally controlled, automatic turning with PID timer, countdown timer and more. Will hold 1728 chicken eggs with my current trays, probably 6-10 thousand double...

Nice looking birds Freya. I'd like to see what we can do come spring with getting some chicks shipped. I'd also like to tdo the same with Dick Horstman.

First, let me thank all of you thus far for your replies. It's exactly the kind of responses I was hoping to get. I don't want to go purchase some expensive chicks, spend the time, money and effort and not end up with what I was looking for. To all who honestly try to steer people in the right...

I'm looking for some (15-25) show quality RIR's. Would love to get started pullets but chicks will suffice if that's all I can find. Anyone have a source for good birds (saw a few names but no contact info)? I'm trying to create a decent flock and plan on helping out some of the local kids, etc...