Crossing my Red Ranger Hens.

[BlueBaby]

LOL yes someone on here did that. Couldn't do too many that way.

I guess that in the old day's for a woman to hatch them in their bra's had to desperately want to have chick's, huh?

 

[Compost King]

it becomes less and less of a problem the MORE and more chicks you have brooding together to share heat. ;-)

The answer to most issues, is pretty much HATCH MORE.

That works great, I saw Doug and Stacey do that with their Red Rangers from Freedom Ranger Hatchery. They only do it in summer though. Their birds huddled to stay warm, when they got warm they broke from the huddle and got food and water then huddled back up as they got cold. After watching that channel I have been inspired to live off grid with minimal Electricity. They themselves use no Electricity but I want enough to power the batteries for my power tools and keep a cell phone charged.

 

[Ridgerunner]

This might be a fun read. It's how the Egyptians were incubating eggs 3,000 years ago, certainly off grid. It probably won't work in North Carolina because of the climate and it does leave out some details.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/09/the-ancient-egg-hatcheries-of-egypt.html

 

[Ridgerunner]

I guess that in the old day's for a woman to hatch them in their bra's had to desperately want to have chick's, huh?

You might enjoy this story about the old days, 2011.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/egg-in-my-bra-is-cheeping-pic-update-post-126.515185/

 

[jolenesdad]

You might enjoy this story about the old days, 2011.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/egg-in-my-bra-is-cheeping-pic-update-post-126.515185/

 

[Compost King]

This might be a fun read. It's how the Egyptians were incubating eggs 3,000 years ago, certainly off grid. It probably won't work in North Carolina because of the climate and it does leave out some details.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/09/the-ancient-egg-hatcheries-of-egypt.html

Thats the type of stuff I take a big interest in, not just the chicken hatching part but how ancient civilizations fed themselves and mass produced Plants/Animals to feed the masses.

 

[BlueBaby]

You might enjoy this story about the old days, 2011.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/egg-in-my-bra-is-cheeping-pic-update-post-126.515185/

I wonder if you could build something like that one out here in the desert? The sun might bake the egg's, though.

 

[Compost King]

I wonder if you could build something like that one out here in the desert? The sun might bake the egg's, though.

certain of the year you may need a evaporation cooling system which is actually fairly easy to make. An Adobe structure with an evaporation pool on top may use evaporation to cool the water in the pool then a pump and heat exchanger set up. At night when the desert gets cool that same pool would he a great temp stabilizer to keep the inside from getting too cool. It would be slightly above my pay grade to build but some people who are really good with evaporation cooling could actually build that.

 

[Kris5902]

There are kerosene incubators and people used to keep eggs by the wood stove... both require a lot of attention to temps and hand turning

There’s supposedly one of those somewhere here on the farm! But the incubators don’t pull too much power, we just have very little direct light on the panels this time of year. Maybe 4 hours on good days.... at our trailer, house site is in full sun basically all day.

That's what they make generators for ... keeps your fridge going too!

But gas is sooooo expensive! Trust me (10,000 watt, 8000 watt, 3000 watt) last years gas bill was over $300/week for just the generators.

Generators get stolen in the middle of the night, its a sad part of life but they can't be inside and people hear them in the middle of the night and know where to find them. You can lock them in a cage and force a thief to spend to much time getting to it to deter them but I came to the conclusion that it wasn't work the investment when the power goes out about once every 5 years here.

 

[123RedBeard]

But gas is sooooo expensive!

Probably more so on an island ... and OP is only talking of emergency use ... a day or two ... and a little 2000 watt or less would be more than adequate ...

My Honda eu2000i runs over 10 hours on one gallon of gas ... and will start & run my fridge ...

Maybe a UPS would work for OP? ... but they have a very limited battery capacity, and heating via a battery is gonna draw it down quick ...

To prevent theft ... leave your doggie door open ...