I'm not planning to start hatching anything until at least March, but after reading about all the fun everyone is having with Christmas hatches and such I'm already getting the fever. I built a still air incubator last summer and had 4 different hatches. It got better with each hatch but the best I got was 5 out of 12. So now I'm attempting to convert my still air into a forced air. I'm playing around with different configurations but I'm hell bent to get the temperature leveled out at 99.5 evenly and then I'll concentrate on the humidity. I know I could make it easier on myself and just buy an incubator but I find it so much more fun to perfect my own. Anyone else feel that way?
I'm getting the spring (chick) fever too. I had a silkie that aborted a hatch and now I have 2 doz silkie eggs just waiting..... I have to sit on my hands 'cause we still have at least 3 months of winter yet!...lol
I'm not a big fan of failure and am also not very mechanically inclined, so I leave the hard work to those companies who have perfected the right equipment for me. I figure this leaves me more time to perfect my brooder to spoil all the babies. lol Of course, dh is another story. He is quite the builder and built us a wonderful hatcher out of a mini refrigerator a few years back. If we need something made, he does that stuff, but life it much easier to just buy something that has already been perfected.
