May Hatch Thread--Fill up those bators n' broodies!

[BCMaraniac]

Not a bad deal, but one can be built for less. The Turner itself runs 45-50$ new and incubator about 85$ new on ebay. So for used that sounds about right. I would clean it very well and sun dry it. Inspect for heavy scratching where bacteria can hide and fester, ruining hatches. There is a ton of general info in the incubation thread for temps etc.. Good luck and welcome to the crazy addiction we call hatching!

Thanks for the info. Since I am planning on raising American Bresse and other meat birds for personal use, I need an incubator to hatch chicks at the appropriate time for my processing schedule.

 

[el pollo rey]

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Nope!

??? Que pasa ?

 

[jnjmanning]

OK so here is the deal. the 2 pips finally hatched, but they are NOT Tolbunts, they are Polish, but from best I can tell they are Golden Laced Polish. #3 pipped zipped and died. It was a Tolbunt, now I have 2 more pipped, #6 doing nothing. I have no idea what is in these eggs....lol

 

[kynewbchickie]

Needing advice...

What I THOUGHT was 6-7 eggs under my broody bantam OEGB, actually turned into 10-11. She seems to be having a difficult time keeping them all under her, and seems flustered while trying to turn them all and get them all back underneath her. Should I move some to the Brinsea I've already got going to make it a little easier on her??

I've got Lav/Split Ameraucana eggs in the bator now, started on Monday - the broody started setting last Wed night/early Thurs morning, so her clutch is about 4 days ahead of the eggs already in the bator, time-wise. That would give me maybe a day or two between hatching/drying/moving the bantam hatchlings before putting the Ameraucanas on lockdown after their final candling.

Thoughts??

 

[mollybuck]

I just candles the six I thought were quitters a few days ago certainly appear now. That leaves 20!! But I have a question, half if the chicks seem to have more room in the egg than the rest. And a couple of the others, have almost no room, but they're all moving, so are the bigger ones just bigger? They were shipped eggs, but some of those are smaller too!

I got my hatching Baylor out and cleaned. I'll start it up Friday night....lockdown is Sunday!!!! Woohoo!!

 

[mollybuck]

Bator...spellchecker always gets me!

 

[jnjmanning]

Needing advice...

What I THOUGHT was 6-7 eggs under my broody bantam OEGB, actually turned into 10-11. She seems to be having a difficult time keeping them all under her, and seems flustered while trying to turn them all and get them all back underneath her. Should I move some to the Brinsea I've already got going to make it a little easier on her??

I've got Lav/Split Ameraucana eggs in the bator now, started on Monday - the broody started setting last Wed night/early Thurs morning, so her clutch is about 4 days ahead of the eggs already in the bator, time-wise. That would give me maybe a day or two between hatching/drying/moving the bantam hatchlings before putting the Ameraucanas on lockdown after their final candling.

Thoughts??

Thats up to you. But I know I wouldnt want to stress my broody any more than I had to!

 

[jnjmanning]

I have a Tolbunt chick, well I think its a tolbunt, lets wait till it dries some more....LOL

 

[AvianEgo]

I have a Tolbunt chick, well I think its a tolbunt, lets wait till it dries some more....LOL

 

[AvianEgo]

Yay! I love the golden laced crested too.