Anyone in Ireland?

[Irishhenman]

http://store.farmfowl.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=38_39
The ones on this site aren't too bad. I have heard good reports about them. Make sure you aren't buying the cheap yellow incubator that goes under loads of names including super hatch. I know people who have had those incubators go on fire and another person who bought one and it melted.

 

[Pekin bantams]

Is that the ten egg manual incubator or the 12 egg automatic incubator

 

[Irishhenman]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/FREE-SHIPPI...244?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ed4c20f0c

No, it is this type of incubator that needs to be avoided. If I were you I would go for an r-com or brinsea incubator, they are much more reliable brands

 

[Pekin bantams]

ok thanks

 

[Maebh]

Speaking of incubators...

Does anyone know of a service for rental of small incubators? I keep a few chickens but would like to try hatching €130-150 seems like a large outlay on an incubator that I may only use 1-2.

The only thing I could find was an educational service for schools. I was considering letting a hen stay broody and order some eggs for under her but it seems to have a much higher failure rate.

 

[Irishhenman]

For someone hatching for the first time get a broody hen. If you have a good one she will do all the work for you and raise the chicks and all you need to do is give her a small house to herself and feed them. Incubators are a lot of trouble if you are only hatching small numbers of chicks and there is a lot that can go wrong with them.

 

[Maebh]

I just broke a broody hen. Lol she will start sitting again eventually though!

 

[ducksupernewbie]

All the way from Ireland, in NY now, trying to get some ducks up and running!

 

[Ray C]

Was anyone at the sale in Gosford at the weekend? It is the biggest poultry sale in Ireland.

 

[iyaibeji]

I have never been to a poultry sale before.
I got my birds through ads on adverts and donedeal.
What are the sales like?