Incubators Anonymous

[Bazy]

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I wish you wouldn't put it that way. Your description makes ME seem like an addict...and I am NOT addicted. I just can't remember that my egg turner only holds 50 eggs and I always overflow it so I have to set up another incubator...It does hold 50, right? something like that so if I run two of them and overflow it by 15 eggs I still have room for 35 more eggs! Everyone who forgets the number of eggs the turner holds MUST have at least three incubators. That's just being careful, that's not an addiction.

 

[Sustained]

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Ah I see! So the cabinet bator I'm planning to work on this winter is just economical use of space. And the 3 smaller bators are just disaster prevention. You know, in case I accidentally overfill again. Which has been known to happen... occasionally... only when the bator starts getting half empty and I panic. Or I run across a really good egg deal and get so excited that I forget that my bator is maxed out.

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[Bazy]

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YES!! RIGHT ON!!! See? It's not so hard?!! My next door neighbor just gave me a full view windowed wine cooler and I just had a major SCORE on an automatic humidifier just in case my wine gets too dry!! If I just put some heat tape and a temperature controller in a drawer....VIOLA! I could turn my wine cooler into an emergency incubator if all three of my others blow up! ...and the best part is all the wine would have to be dealt with while I watch the eggs hatch in the wine cooler...

 

[Sustained]

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Now THAT is an emergency plan!!

I about fell over reading that!

 

[CashandTracy]

I have a pip in one of my cream legbar eggs! It's in the middle of the egg, more towards the narrow end. I'm a little worried. It is peeping. I peeled just a tiny bit of egg to reveal the membrane and made a tiny snip near the beak. It's day 21, but I had a half day where the temp was a little low (92-94), so if they are ok, they will probably hatch late. I don't want to to rush help this one, but I am worried about it since it's not in the big end.

A local friend of mine has cream legbars from the same batch from the same breeder. She had 2-3 pip like this and they all died.

I had one chick do the same thing. It piped a day after all the others hatched (he almost got thown away). I was in a panic since I had powered down the incubator and opened it to toss the bad eggs. I was candling them just to make sure they were all bad and behold a chick!

anyhoo I thought it was a goner since the pip was in a bad area, I let it play out and I have and I have a chick that I didn't expect. I can't tell you when to help or how to help but in my thought is if it is cheeping it can breathe????

Good luck

 

[calichicken]

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Don't forget being responsible as well...LOL!!! Not addicted just careful, well planned and resourceful...all admirable traits..RIGHT?

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

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YES!! RIGHT ON!!! See? It's not so hard?!! My next door neighbor just gave me a full view windowed wine cooler and I just had a major SCORE on an automatic humidifier just in case my wine gets too dry!! If I just put some heat tape and a temperature controller in a drawer....VIOLA! I could turn my wine cooler into an emergency incubator if all three of my others blow up! ...and the best part is all the wine would have to be dealt with while I watch the eggs hatch in the wine cooler...

How do you turn a wine cooler into a chick/egg heater?

 

[ladycat]

Why did I just order CCL eggs?

 

[calichicken]

Why did I just order CCL eggs?

LOl...because you don't want a sad....empty....bator?????

Full bators are soooo much happier!!!!

 

[Sustained]

Don't forget being responsible as well...LOL!!! Not addicted just careful, well planned and resourceful...all admirable traits..RIGHT?

Very! When you phrase it like that, our dedication to hatching is rather noble!

Why did I just order CCL eggs?

A preternatural instinct that told you how much happier you would be with some gorgeous CCL chicks to cheep at you?

LOl...because you don't want a sad....empty....bator?????

Full bators are soooo much happier!!!!

And they share their happiness! In the form of fluffly little balls of peeping cuteness