Incubators Anonymous

[ki4got]

Ok... explaining the hovabator turner to hubby, I took 1 standard rail out and put in a quail rail. Now I have room for 35 larger eggs and 20 of the teeny bantam eggs (my oegb's fit nicely). He says I hope you don't plan on hatching that many!

Well DUH! if you expect me to produce an average of about 15-20 pounds of meat per week, how many birds do you THINK I need to hatch?

I figure with a live weight of 8-10 pounds, that's dressed out to 5-6? it's been a while, i really don't remember... but say 5 pounds of meat on an average bird... that's a minimum of 4 a week, 16 a month, 108 a year. and that's just counting what I'll need for the dogs! (they eat raw). add in a few for us too here and there. so I figure a nice round # of 120 a year gives me a chance to select for better conformation, weight, egg production, etc. And being a heritage breed (Dorking is my #1 choice right now) I'm sure there will be willing homes for those that pass the first and maybe even second culling...

But first I probably should get some starter stock to work with before I worry about all that... for now I'm just going to hatch what I can get, to hone my hatching skills. 8)

 

[CapricornFarm]

Who says we need help? If it's not broken , don't fix it!

Oh yes, and I wanted to add that I have buckeyes if you need eggs, enabler hat ON!

 

[bargain]

I HAVe to confess I'm a chicken pusher lurking here...

But I'm also an enabler....Any one need eggs????? Please please save me. I'm going out to build more runs!!!!and coops today. Buy my eggs so I have nothing to hatch for one day!!! Please! (If you're running short of new eggs, I have silkies, delawares, coronations sussex, lavendar orpington, bbs orpingtons, bbs marans, black copper marans, wheaten marans, easter eggers soon to be Olive Eggers,

Okay I'll stop now!

 

[LilyD]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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Hmm interesting idea for a follow up thread. I am thinking we must enlist some therapy experts into the new thread though. We are clearly too far gone to help ourselves lol.

On a side note I went to take my eggs out of the incubator today since none of them had developed and it was past day 10. Well one of them exploded. It smelled horrible and left greenish yellowish goo all over my incubator. It was terrible. So no eggs hatching for me. But I do have some more eggs coming on Tuesday, hopefully they will hatch since the last batch is toast. I cleaned out the incubator really well with soap and water and then peroxide and then vinegar and it will go out in the sun all day tomorrow. Hopefully that will kill any germs that are in it before the next batch gets here.

Oh dear!!

I'm sorry that none of your eggs hatched!

What kind of eggs are you getting in the mail?

~Aspen​

Hopefully USPS willing I will get a load of delly eggs from the Stacy Tate who is helping me to make my lines more dp than they are right now. Hoping to hatch my own meaties that are a bit larger but quite a bit smarter than the Cornish X I have done in the past.

 

[LilyD]

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Chicken pusher lol i like it. I am in need of more dellys I don't have nearly enough yet lol. But wait I'm supposed to be being good and putting the incubator away for the winter. Sigh so much for being good.

 

[CapricornFarm]

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Hey Bargain, do you have a long lost twin sister? It might be me:-D

 

[Impress]

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Chicken pusher lol i like it. I am in need of more dellys I don't have nearly enough yet lol. But wait I'm supposed to be being good and putting the incubator away for the winter. Sigh so much for being good.

Put it away for the winter? But winter is boring! Chicks only take up a light and a tub! It will help keep your house heated for a fraction of the cost of just running a heater in that room! And the CUTE!

 

[gryeyes]

Well, bargain "pushed" me - I just won two of her auctions. These will be the first eggs incubated in the new house......

I needed Dellies and Speckled Sussex.... ummm........ because. Because... the flock would look so much better with some Deleware and Speckled Sussex birds! I had a Dellie, but she died... not before some of her eggs - crossed with my dominant EE Rooster, Carl - hatched into some great Delaweggers, though. So Delilah's legacy lives on. It would still be nice to have Dellies in the flock again - hopefully more than one.

And everybody needs Speckled Sussex, right???

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Oh dear!!

I'm sorry that none of your eggs hatched!

What kind of eggs are you getting in the mail?

~Aspen

Hopefully USPS willing I will get a load of delly eggs from the Stacy Tate who is helping me to make my lines more dp than they are right now. Hoping to hatch my own meaties that are a bit larger but quite a bit smarter than the Cornish X I have done in the past.

Good luck! There are some awesome breeders out there that are willing to help people that are just getting started.

~Aspen

 

[CapricornFarm]

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I am pretty sure that is one of the breeds on the must have list , along with Polish!;-) Glad u are keeping to the rule book!