Incubators Anonymous

[ozexpat]

i can say i am a addict but i am shore close. i have a GQF 1270 and i am going to buy another cabinet soon. i also started my own flock of booted beaded belgain D'Uccle, i have self blue, mille fleur, and porcelains and i would love to have blue mf and golden necks. i also incubate emu eggs, guinea eggs, goose eggs, peafowl eggs, and duck eggs as well. i love hatching eggs it is a passion of mine. i only have been doing it for 3 years, and i wish i started a long time ago. it is so amazing how hatching works. they are truely gifts from God. if i had the money and time i would buy some big petersime incubators and start a hatchery. but i have a full time job and a lot of other farm animals. incubators are awesome

some addicts just can't admit it. close but no confession.

 

[acbunker]

Hi. My name is Adriana and I'm addicted to incubating...

Funny thing is that I received the "Incubators Anonymous" e-mail right after a reply from someone selling hatching eggs on Craigslist... LoL
I'm super to new to it, but I caught the chick fever and can't stop hatching them.

I'm addicted and proud of it.

There's no way back now and I know it.... Just saying!

Happy hatchings to all.

 

[noahsmom]

Oooo

I BETTER GET THAT CHICKEN MATH APP FOR SMARTPHONES FINISHED

Oooo! Of course you will make sure there is a glitch in it to make sure some of us dont seem so crazy though, right?! Lol
What started as a few chickens for egg Laying has become a whole new something all together for me now!!!

 

[Christabelle]

Question to hatch addicts with more experience than I. I started dry hatching (relativly dry @ 30%) after I got a lot of DIS full term chicks. I now hatch in my smaller incubator so I don't have to adjust the humidity on my cabinet bator. My hatch rate at lockdown is now 100% I can only hatch 12 at a time (comfortably) and I've been eying a hatchet that's on eBay with different drawers for breeds. Do y'all have seperator hatchets? If so, what is a good one? Enable me!

 

[ozexpat]

Question to hatch addicts with more experience than I. I started dry hatching (relativly dry @ 30%) after I got a lot of DIS full term chicks. I now hatch in my smaller incubator so I don't have to adjust the humidity on my cabinet bator. My hatch rate at lockdown is now 100% I can only hatch 12 at a time (comfortably) and I've been eying a hatchet that's on eBay with different drawers for breeds. Do y'all have seperator hatchets? If so, what is a good one? Enable me!

With my USA I will use a seperate hatcher going forward. I have been using my hovabator 1588. I havent done staggered hatches up until now so I have just used small plastic baskets - 4 fit in the HB to separate breeds. My hatcher is the "bordeaux bator" I made last weekend that is linked in my signature.









My "display case" bator we built over Easter in the Philippines is big enough to put small shopping baskets into so I can separate the breeds and control the chaos.





I do have duck eggs in there so I will pull them out on day 19 - after the cotournix hatch in my styrobator and hatch the pekins in there.

 

[bigathena]

i love this thread, nice home made incubator by the way. I AM an addict. I raise Gamefowls, heritage breed and rare breed chickens. I have hatched over 200 already this year and i keep telling myself enough is enough, but there are a FEW more batches I want to hatch before I call it quits for the season, IF I ever do.....

 

[hokankai]

This is how I separated breeds this round. It worked GREAT and the chicks can't hop over

 

[Overoberyl]

Question to hatch addicts with more experience than I. I started dry hatching (relativly dry @ 30%) after I got a lot of DIS full term chicks. I now hatch in my smaller incubator so I don't have to adjust the humidity on my cabinet bator. My hatch rate at lockdown is now 100% I can only hatch 12 at a time (comfortably) and I've been eying a hatchet that's on eBay with different drawers for breeds. Do y'all have seperator hatchets? If so, what is a good one? Enable me!

The Genesis is a great option also, nice big window which is a benefit over the 1588.

 

[bubbaloo]

My name is Emma and I am a incubator-holic, I have been for around 3 years now, I have no intention of stopping, all the self help forums will not stop me, nuff said!!!
Much love to my micro bantam chicks and fingers crossed to my goose egg who is currently in the incubator.

 

[collegenugget]

My name is Sally and I am an incubator addict too. I don't even need cable tv anymore... because I spend more time watching incubator windows than I ever spent watching HBO or Showtime! I thought I had control over my problem... until I learned to build my first incubator. I've got about 8 or 9 now and currently four are running and FULL! Yes, I know I have a problem but I can't help myself! I'll hatch ANYTHING I can get my hands on! Most of my eggs are from my own flock, but occasionally I'll get eggs from someone else-I call that "Getting some strange."