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[woman_in_shoe]

Kedreeva that sounds like a good idea. I will instruct them to do that and if worst comes to worst they can always to to the feedstore to get chickfeed. I say kids, but they are actually 18 and 20 and mature, so hopefully the babes will be ok. They have come this far in our homemade styrofoam incubator, it would be so sad if things went totally wrong now. Will they be ok with the lamp in the bator or should I have them get a different bulb for a heatlamp?

 

[woman_in_shoe]

Btw we started with 10 eggs, one was a dud right from the start, two we can't tell because the shells are to thick and the other 7 are def developing. Just hoping that our bumbling lack of exerience and a heater that kept fluctuating and going to high will not have caused deformaties. This is our first attempt at incubating eggs.

 

[Kedreeva]

Uhm, well I don't know what lamp you have in the bator, but you'll need one for the brooder, if you plan to take out the chicks and have eggs in the bator. I use my snake's reptile heat lamp, but I put my heating pad underneath half of it (it's just a regular old human heating pad for those monthly visits from nature) and I can turn the lamp off and just use that for a while before they get scared of the dark. They're pretty hardy once they get out of the eggs, so if your bator light gives off the heat to keep a brooder around 80-90, you'll probably be just fine to use it.

EDIT: oh yeah, and just make sure they have a 'cooler' place to escape too in case they are getting too hot. The 'kids' can check for them acting overheated, staying apart from one another, opening their wings to disperse heat, panting, etc or too cold, shivering and huddling close together and close to the heat source.