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Hi All
I am new to BYC I have been raising poultry for the past 6 years. I am mostly grow our own food from our 4 gardens to raising chickens and turkeys every year for the freezer. I also have always had at least 30 laying hens and at one time I had over 100.
I am always trying diffirent breads and I used to order day old chicks from well known hatcherys. Last year I started to hatch my own. I started with burben red turkeys then I won 100 coturnex quail eggs on ebay had over an 80% hatch rate with them.
So last year I kept 4 turkey toms and 13 hens.They are laying up a storm any where from 4 to 12 eggs a day. I have 37 buff orhpingtons also with one rooster. So this year I am going to try to hatch out all my own . I would love to buy one of those big comercial incubators but they are just way to much money. So I am going to build one out of an old refrigderator. Any help or ideas
would be a great help if any one has built one of these.
I have to wait because it is still very much winter up here. Oh I guess I should tell you all where I am I live in upstate NY in the Adirondack mountains. In a tiny town a mile back on a dead end road as I like to tell people its our little piece of heaven.
Here is one more question when it gets warm enough to have hatching eggs shipped I am going to try hatching ring neck pheasant or chuckars partridges Just wondering if these will fit in my auto egg turner quail rails?
Thank you all very much and I look forward to reading many posts
Rick
I am new to BYC I have been raising poultry for the past 6 years. I am mostly grow our own food from our 4 gardens to raising chickens and turkeys every year for the freezer. I also have always had at least 30 laying hens and at one time I had over 100.
I am always trying diffirent breads and I used to order day old chicks from well known hatcherys. Last year I started to hatch my own. I started with burben red turkeys then I won 100 coturnex quail eggs on ebay had over an 80% hatch rate with them.
So last year I kept 4 turkey toms and 13 hens.They are laying up a storm any where from 4 to 12 eggs a day. I have 37 buff orhpingtons also with one rooster. So this year I am going to try to hatch out all my own . I would love to buy one of those big comercial incubators but they are just way to much money. So I am going to build one out of an old refrigderator. Any help or ideas
would be a great help if any one has built one of these.
I have to wait because it is still very much winter up here. Oh I guess I should tell you all where I am I live in upstate NY in the Adirondack mountains. In a tiny town a mile back on a dead end road as I like to tell people its our little piece of heaven.
Here is one more question when it gets warm enough to have hatching eggs shipped I am going to try hatching ring neck pheasant or chuckars partridges Just wondering if these will fit in my auto egg turner quail rails?
Thank you all very much and I look forward to reading many posts
Rick
