Does this thing work?

[mrbstephens]

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-CHICKBATOR-...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item414e90dc07

 

[FLF]

No. Not at all!

 

[mrbstephens]

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DARN! I need a cheap incubator. My EE just died this morning and left behind two fertile eggs that I'd like to hatch. Any ideas?

 

[mrbstephens]

How long can I store the eggs? Is it possible to hold onto them for a couple of months?

 

[bel]

Sorry for your loss.
Unfortunately a couple months is way too long, maybe a week or 2 at the most, but the longer you wait the odds of viability decreases greatly.
If she was sitting on them though, it might be too late because incubation had started already once they got warmed.

Might check craigslist for your area and see if you can find a used one.

 

[mrbstephens]

Nobody has ever had luck with that bator? How does that company stay in business?

 

[mstricer]

maybe you can go to the the forum "where are you, where am I" and see if any one is near you with either an incubator you can borrow of a broody you can put them under.

 

[mrbstephens]

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Unfortunately, nobody is where I am.

 

[mstricer]

Oh I'm sorry. Maybe you could get a still air bator pretty cheap. I wish you could get something so you could have her babies. How did she die?

 

[mrbstephens]

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Not sure. It was very quick. She was panting hard this morning and died within the hour. Wasn't eggbound. maybe something she ate or ......who knows.