- Jan 24, 2014
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Your incubator gathered dust??!?? Ooooohhh, on the wagon, were ya? Glad to see you've come to your senses. I'm confident you'll soon make honest to goodness chicken junkies out of your neighbors. Just one chicken, and it'll be all over. Way to go!
Eeek the sad truth is that the 40+year-old Marsh Turn-X IS my backup! And now it's crammed full along with my first string 'bator, which is a Brinsea Eco 20, and until my shiny new scratch-and-dent Brinsea Eco 20 is delivered, I have the rest of the new eggs in a borrowed Little Giant. Luckily it'll only be about three days that I have to play mother hen to that LG. I hatched out some quail and some rumpless araucanas in the LG last fall before I got my Brinsea, and it was a royal pain having to hover over that thing to make sure it was behaving properly.
I must say that Marsh Turn-x is a work horse. When I was on the wagon just over a year ago, I loaned it to my neighbor and it stopped being able to come up to the right temperature, so I called the company (now Lyon) and complained to them that their darn product only lasted forty years!
That's when I bought Brinsea #1. But later I dug out that old Turn-X again and Lyon helped figure out the issue and when I felt a binge coming on (see above-referenced quail hatching), I changed out the wafer thermostat thingy and it's as good as new and rock steady. Voila! TWO 'bators!
They don't make much like that any more. Built to last with replaceable parts. The LG does work. It's just way high maintenance. But I love the Brinsea with the autoturn cradle. Even without the cradle it's so easy.
YEP, like a kid in a candy store today when picking up my eggs, and though I tried to contain my delight until I was safely in the privacy of my own home, I'm paranoid - I mean certain the staff at the post office refers to me as "that crazy egg lady" when I walk out the door. But at least they humor me and let me pick up eggs on Saturdays even though they are closed! He asked today if that was all my eggs, and I said - what else - "for now...see ya in about three weeks!"
Time to go stare at the eggs....only two weeks to go on batch number 1!
Eeek the sad truth is that the 40+year-old Marsh Turn-X IS my backup! And now it's crammed full along with my first string 'bator, which is a Brinsea Eco 20, and until my shiny new scratch-and-dent Brinsea Eco 20 is delivered, I have the rest of the new eggs in a borrowed Little Giant. Luckily it'll only be about three days that I have to play mother hen to that LG. I hatched out some quail and some rumpless araucanas in the LG last fall before I got my Brinsea, and it was a royal pain having to hover over that thing to make sure it was behaving properly.
I must say that Marsh Turn-x is a work horse. When I was on the wagon just over a year ago, I loaned it to my neighbor and it stopped being able to come up to the right temperature, so I called the company (now Lyon) and complained to them that their darn product only lasted forty years!
YEP, like a kid in a candy store today when picking up my eggs, and though I tried to contain my delight until I was safely in the privacy of my own home, I'm paranoid - I mean certain the staff at the post office refers to me as "that crazy egg lady" when I walk out the door. But at least they humor me and let me pick up eggs on Saturdays even though they are closed! He asked today if that was all my eggs, and I said - what else - "for now...see ya in about three weeks!"
Time to go stare at the eggs....only two weeks to go on batch number 1!
