Knitted egg holster to incubate chicks WITHOUT a 'bator...the brabator

[Sharona]

I'm too clumsy - those eggs wouldn't make it 24 hours in my bra - but I'm definitely going to watch this thread. You will keep us updated right? I am wondering about contamination from every day situations.

 

[crazy4daisy]

Well, I'm not going to hatch them right now - it will probably be a couple or a few months, but I will definitely start a thread then and keep everyone posted on the progress, etc. when I do.

This is just the pre-brabator thread.

 

[BirdBrain]

What a total HOOT!! Don't think I would actually admit that I was doing it until it was over and done successfully. I can just see it now..."Mommy, why are you so lumpy?" My husband would definitely NOT go for this idea. He would be buying me a bator in 9 seconds flat if he thought I was serious about trying this.

 

[CtlisencedArborist]

Ummm........I like idea of knitting but actually putting them under you breast is alittle COOL!lol.........what ever floats ya boat!

 

[CtlisencedArborist]

i say do it and take close pics....lol

 

[Frozen Feathers]

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I'd be scared about getting a rotten egg !! Anyone who's ever had a growing egg go bad knows what I'm talking about...stinky!!

 

[jackiedon]

I could see me binding over to help a student at school and a egg coming tumbling out. "Ms. Campbell why do you have eggs in your shirt" "Mom! Ms. Campbell helped me today and an egg fell out of her shirt" "Mr. Billingsly, why do you're computer teacher have eggs coming out of her shirt was it really an egg or was it something else" "Members of the School Board, honestly I was trying to incubate eggs in my bra but I'm just not hmmm hmmmm large enough to keep them in, I swear it was nothing but a chicken egg"

 

[SueNH]

My grandmother did it with goose eggs. Not the whole hatch but the final week or so. Said she had an incubator in the basement fail and she took the few goose eggs and bound them to her with an old apron and they hatched. Was back in the late 1940's. Was a big old cabinet incubator that was chuck full of chicken eggs. She must have thought a lot of her geese to even try it.

 

[Bubba]

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ROFLMAO!!!!

I want to hear more of this story, specially if you pull it off. I think the temp would be to low myself.

Cardboard tubes might make it so you don't totally smash them but anything like that leads to problems of how big do you want this thing. The more protective material you put in there the more room it takes up.

I think you could do this set up for day use only then get something to warm them at night. Like a reptile heating rock or even a fish tank set to the right temp then you place a plastic container in the middle. Not floating but actually weighed down, well not so far down it fills with water. Could put bricks under it I guess. You then place the eggs in the container for the night covered with insulation of some type. Styrofoam works great. The water totally surrounding the container would keep it at a constant temp.

Bubba

 

[crazy4daisy]

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ROFLOL!

I knew this post would bring some funny responses. Well, I just finished knitting the "holster" for the eggs and tried it out with two store-bought eggs. You can't even see that they're there (I wear size C) so I'm not worried about that part.

Another thing - I'm worried that I might be able to get some sickness from the eggs if, like, I absorb something through my pores

(GROSS!) , so I made little covers for them on the "holster". Do you think it would be a problem? If so - do you know of any egg wash that I could use on HATCHING eggs?