U_Stormcrow
Crossing the Road
I've hit on a management system that works for me, but when the time comes to scale up again, I'll likely add two more 12 egg incubators, and start one each week. I've already built the grow out pen and run to handle the additional quantity of birds, so that won't be an issue. And it will allos me to take an incubator "off line" periodically to hatch a few pekin ducks for myself an my family without really messing up the rotation as I did this spring.
and double ?triple? thumbs up on the importance of a scale. My hatchery Dark Brahma never got to decent size, but at five months they *looked* huge compared to all but my CX. Put them on the scale however? All that bulk was feathers. They had a mere 1/2# on birds that appeared to be just 2/3 their size.
and double ?triple? thumbs up on the importance of a scale. My hatchery Dark Brahma never got to decent size, but at five months they *looked* huge compared to all but my CX. Put them on the scale however? All that bulk was feathers. They had a mere 1/2# on birds that appeared to be just 2/3 their size.