Very true but some of us(me) are insane enough to try anyway lol I don't have a roo yet so I have to rely on others for eggs until one of my silkies matures and turns out to be a roo
If you have any great contacts for Bantam cochin eggs let me know since you are on my coast and not aaaaaallllllll the way across the country...LOL! seems like the only ones I can ever find when I want them for my broody are on the East coastI could possibly start up my "put away" bator for eggs closer to home
Erm... I ran across this earlier today... I'm not sure if those are colors you're interested inI'm trying to talk myself out of the serama eggs. I already have 33+ on order LOL
Well..if you already have 33+ then whats a few moreRight???? LOL I have never bought eggs from craiglist...have you and had a good experience?
So you see my logic! LOL and they're delicate and difficult to hatch anyway so obviously I need extras
Yes I've gotten craigslist eggs and have never had a bad experience with them yet. Well, one but that was the walmart temp/humidity gauges fault and had nothing to do with the eggs. I regularly check craigslist for eggs because I haven't had problems with it yet. Ebay is a different story.
Thanks! Good to know..I may have to check craigslist and start up my batorAnd YES...eggs...very delicate...can be hard to hatch...and well...you just wanna be sure you get a good hatch! Otherwise you would just have to try and hatch more...right? makes much more sense to add eggs nowI'm here for ya
I got 26 free silkie eggs off craigslist and found out later that the birds they came from were catdance silkie lines. I love her birds <3 So I was pretty thrilled about that.
Exactly! couldn't have said it better myself LOL
That cooler-bator looks like a toaster oven! =)
You're a genius; DD and I have been kind of designing a cooler-bator, but I've been stuck on the idea of it being "right side up". I'll show her yours and see what she thinks. TFS!!!
PS: super cute chick!!! looks like a little boy, huh?
Yeah!!!! I really cant wait for my incubator to come!! All these incubator stories are making me even more impatient...I used the same instructions that other BYC members posted, but I thought opening the incubator from the top would let more heat escape. To make it level & stable, I simply screwed 2 pieces of wood to the bottom (or the side - depending on how you look at it).
If I'm hatching backyard eggs, I use a roller type turner with the eggs on their sides. If I'm doing shipped eggs, I stand them up in the tray & tilt them gently side to side.
Below is the yellow tray turner. The incubator on the left was borrowed & used as a hatcher. Once I knew the incubator worked, I didn't have the heart to discard my test eggs. I allowed them to hatch while my daughter incubated the expensive shipped eggs. This was part of her 4H project. Since she needed an incubator for her project, I decided my part was to build one for her. Also I teach & wanted to use my own rather than borrow the over-used incubator from the Ag Educ Office. I added water bottles (as heat sinks) to help maintain temp. Rocks would also work.
The hatching chick was a Cream Crested Legbar. Probably a female because I only hatched one male. I love taking pics, so the big window was a requirement for me.
* One big disadvantage of using the lightbulbs is the constant on/off cycle. "It's hatching! Here it comes!...." CLICK.......darkness falls.Ok, shine the flashlight. Eyes adjust. CLICK .... Ugh! I'm blinded by the light!!
