EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[BantyChooks]

Ignore her...She tried to claim she won the "good Morning" contest on the Minnesota thread..and we all know she is disqualified there.

I won fair and square. I am a northie.

So. . stupid Southie question. Do I need a separate incubator for them to hatch in? I read a lot of people on here talking about putting their eggs in a Hatcher at lock down. Is this the best thing to do or do most of you just hatch in the same incubator?

I use the same bator but a hatcher is on my to-do list.

 

[duluthralphie]

I cut back incubators..this fall..

I have 6 now....

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Mine is a cabinet that holds 5 trays and they do not turn.

I won fair and square. I am a northie.


I use the same bator but a hatcher is on my to-do list.

So I'm still confused. Is the Hatcher just another incubator? What do you mean by a cabinet.
A cabinet incubator?
But but but how do you move the eggs to the Hatcher if ya not posed to open the incubator Ralph ie ?

 

[duluthralphie]

I won fair and square. I am a northie.


I use the same bator but a hatcher is on my to-do list.

You have to be Minnesotan to even enter.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I cut back incubators..this fall..

I have 6 now....

Only 6

 

[BantyChooks]

So I'm still confused. Is the Hatcher just another incubator? What do you mean by a cabinet.
A cabinet incubator?
But but but how do you move the eggs to the Hatcher if ya not posed to open the incubator Ralph ie ?

It's a separate box with a heat supply for eggs after day 18 (25 if duck) of incubation. It reduces contamination of incubating eggs and makes staggered hatches easier humidity-wise. Generally, it can be used as an incubator too, not Ralph's cabinet but many others can.

 

[BantyChooks]

You have to be Minnesotan to even enter.

Maybe I'm secretly a MNer

 

[duluthralphie]

So I'm still confused. Is the Hatcher just another incubator? What do you mean by a cabinet.
A cabinet incubator?
But but but how do you move the eggs to the Hatcher if ya not posed to open the incubator Ralph ie ?

That is mine,,, but I have the better glass door

 

[BantyChooks]

Only 6

I only have two!

 

[BantyChooks]

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That is mine,,, but I have the better glass door

Poor me... I just have a foamie and one cooler bator. None of those fancy ones.