My new Dickey incubator came in today and it may be what it takes to finally drive me over the edge.
I already have five poultry tractors, a fixed henyard, a rooster pen, brooder, and we're about midway through buidling a new design of chicken tractor we're going to use as a grow out pen (no nest boxes). If it pans out in use we'll build a smaller scale version for my daughter to keep her birds in. I have hopes of eventually using this new design to replace the older tractors as they give out.
The incubator cost me a year's saved egg money. When the wife sees how big this thing is she's going to flip. I'll remind her that she did encourage me to buy the thing after I dithered over whether I should or not for the last several months.
I've got a tractor full of White Midget turkeys that should begin to lay soon that we want to hatch a bunch of their eggs. Have already chosen most of my chicken breeding stock and, of course, there will be my daughter's Black Silkie showbirds that we'll want to hatch from. One of her cockerels crowed for the first time (that I heard) this morning.
Of course the incubator is going to have to go into the house. My shop is not insulated or heated so too much temperature variation out there.
Gonna be a whole lot of clucking, crowing, and cheeping going on around here now!
.....Alan (he was a good egg, but a little cracked).
I already have five poultry tractors, a fixed henyard, a rooster pen, brooder, and we're about midway through buidling a new design of chicken tractor we're going to use as a grow out pen (no nest boxes). If it pans out in use we'll build a smaller scale version for my daughter to keep her birds in. I have hopes of eventually using this new design to replace the older tractors as they give out.
The incubator cost me a year's saved egg money. When the wife sees how big this thing is she's going to flip. I'll remind her that she did encourage me to buy the thing after I dithered over whether I should or not for the last several months.
I've got a tractor full of White Midget turkeys that should begin to lay soon that we want to hatch a bunch of their eggs. Have already chosen most of my chicken breeding stock and, of course, there will be my daughter's Black Silkie showbirds that we'll want to hatch from. One of her cockerels crowed for the first time (that I heard) this morning.
Of course the incubator is going to have to go into the house. My shop is not insulated or heated so too much temperature variation out there.
Gonna be a whole lot of clucking, crowing, and cheeping going on around here now!
.....Alan (he was a good egg, but a little cracked).
