Anyone hear about renting out spaces in an incubator?

[rooster-red]

My question would be how much could you charge for the service? would it be worth the time to keep the eggs/hatched chicks seperated?

What about the difference in gestation times and temps of different species? You'd probably want a seperate hatcher too.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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Yeah, would probably want a seperate hatcher.

I don't know how much I would charge. I was just playing with the idea today and I wondered if anyone did it already.

Just curiousity playing around.

-Kim

 

[SterlingAcres]

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I think you'd have to stagger them. Like advertise you have chicks hatching on such and such day and the bator's available then. I think $10 a dozen sounds fair, since I have to hand turn eggs. That's just me though.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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I think you'd have to stagger them. Like advertise you have chicks hatching on such and such day and the bator's available then. I think $10 a dozen sounds fair, since I have to hand turn eggs. That's just me though.

It would probably vary on the eggs too. Quail don't take too much space and I know Coturnix hatch day 17, compared to day 21 for chickens, and 30 days for peafowl.

-Kim

 

[rooster-red]

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Yeah, would probably want a seperate hatcher.

I don't know how much I would charge. I was just playing with the idea today and I wondered if anyone did it already.

Just curiousity playing around.

-Kim

Can you tell I'd kicked the idea around a bit already?

My conclusion was that I'd be better off incubating eggs and selling the live chicks, and the rarer the breeds, the better chance of making a very small profit to make it worth my time.

 

[AK-Bird-brain]

That's all I need now is you folks putting ideas in my wife's head. She's hatching out plenty already without taking in strangers eggs!

 

[SterlingAcres]

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[Wolf-Kim]

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-Kim

 

[conny63malies]

i would be concerend about what kind of bacteria diseases could be sticking on the eggs. there you are with a sportsman full of eggs , get some disease in and end up killing the entire bator full of eggs.. Or something happens during incubation and and people blame you for ruiningtheir eggs. i dont know if all that trouble is worth the bit of money and the effort.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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Could exterior bacteria infect all the eggs?

I know cracked, dirty eggs tend to "burst" and then can put the other eggs at risk. I didn't think you could get in trouble if you (1) checked and made sure the eggs were visibly clean(aka not covered in chicken cr@p) and (2) candled to make sure there were no cracks.

-Kim