In march I bought 5 chicks from Orschelns and a week later I bought 11 chicks from Atwoods. Before I bought the chicks at Atwoods I had been at lowes and bought the wood for an incubator I had designed in my head and after it was built I checked the temp to see if it would hold temp and then it sat until the 26th October and I put in 16 eggs and and on the 16th of November had 13 of 16 then on thanks giving day had 6 of 7 then a last big hatch of 31 of 40 (2 didn't make it past the first day (I will leave it at that)) and now waiting on 6 eggs (day 19) and while this was going on I built an 480 egg incubator (this would be the what was I thinking point) so now I have a whole bunch of chicks now I have to build coops for them when I take them out in the spring...