how do you not put eggs in the incubator?

[austinhart123]

i see im not alone in my struggles

 

[shelleyd2008]

I just think of how many birds I already have, and how hard it is to sell mixed breed anything (since all mine free range atm), then I remember the stink, and dust, and aggravation, I went through LAST winter when I decided to not stop, and that makes it easier

But that doesn't stop me from looking at the BST forums!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Geez, I haven't even started yet and I'm already addicted. Bators running, but eggs aren't here yet. I'm like a kid in a candy store.

 

[FenDruadin]

You clean the bator REALLY well. Take it apart, store it cosily in its own padded box with the turner and everything so it's nice and neat for next summer. You enjoy your current hatchlings, while making note of the hard work you are putting in every morning and afternoon and how much more work it would be to do this in the winter. You count up your flock, look at your space, remember that you don't have room for another coop.

Then you wait.

And in about three days a group of children will find some eggs in your hay loft, put there by the neighbor's adorable banties that you have been coveting, and before ten seconds is past you will have jumped from your comfortable outdoor chair and whisked those eggs into the house, pulled out the incubator, fired it up, and be watching the thermometer every five minutes waiting for it to stabilize so you can get those eggs going.

THAT's how you resist.

 

[becky3086]

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LOL, LOL,

Umm, if you figure it out, let me know. Presently working on that new pen....

 

[HBuehler]

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We had that same conversation 6 hens would be more than enough eggs...I must have meant coops not hens because we have somewhere between 150-200 without counting.My DH is a builder and getting tired of every weekend building coops or fencing off the horses pasture for chickens but he's almost as addicted as I am-catch him looking in the bators frequently.
How do I NOT put eggs in the bator? I have no idea how not to.I have some hatching today more tomorrow and 2 more bators running-1 is full the other is waiting for the eggs

Oh this is my last hatch of the year-as long as the bators never stop it's the same hatch right?

 

[farmin'chick]

Okay.....it DIDN'T WORK! I turned off my incubator....and ordered 75 chicks!!!!!

Well, actually, I didn't turn off the incubator, either....just making plans for spring.

 

[neferset]

I ordered 25 chicks that should arrive tomorrow and turned the incubator back on about the same time. I have two running due to goose eggs, filled up the turners in the one with chicks and ducks, and have 8 ordered eggs to accommodate. I can't seem to stop picking them up in the barn and putting them in the bators, though.

 

[Elite Silkies]

I have 18 outside, 20 in the brooder, 4 in the hatcher, 27 in the incubator and 24 more shipped eggs on the way.

To be honest, I have no desire to stop. It's like gambling. It's an addiction. IT'S A SICKNESS and I think we all need help.

I think we need to start an Organization for hatching diseases.

I get excited every time one is hatching, it's the best rush ever.

 

[walkswithdog]

Stop, what is this stop to which you refer???? Okay, I used to know how. Before I got the redwood cabinet bator.

You can't take apart and put away a cabinet bator and the empty trays MOCK YOU! Laugh in your face - look at ME I'M empty!!! A few eggs just look dumb, one lone tray of eggs looks sad. Two trays look more confident and happy. Three is just nifty ... you begin to see the problem.

I'm not stopping. So there. I'm going to build and sell for nothing practically anything I hatch that I don't want. Heck I'll give the suckers away. I ummm like hatching... and the eggs are free now. Well, except the ones I just bought... and the small order of chicks I made...

Fine it's a DISEASE and I have it.

My name is Cher and I am NOT counting the perfectly normal number of chickens that I have, nor the eggs in the bator. So there.