I take a small break mid summer for cleaning plus about a week or so near christmas... otherwise they keep going year round...
Quote: then I must not be a 'people'... hm. wonder what classification I am
uhm...methinks you're just insane like me...
they turn off? mine has been running nonstop since we.built it Feb 2012. I have been hatching nonstop since my first incubator. I do slow down in the fall. but not looking that way now. I have two big orders for chicks.....one for almost 200 chicks (Marans olive eggers and SBEL) and the other one is for 100 barred rocks for meat birds.
mine doesn't turn off unless the power goes out.. or I unplug it... we never designed it with an "off switch"...
ROFL no, i'm normal... it's those people who turn off 'bators that don't have off switches that are nuts.