Nobody warned me...

[redbudlane]

that incubating eggs was so addictive!!! This is my third batch this year, I have had very good luck with my hatches and I am simply in love with hatching baby peeps. Dh is a little worried about being overrun though....

 

[Glenmar]

Same here. Good hatch rates with my new Brinsea. I have also done 3, but I plan on selling most at swaps before the end of fall.
It was a lot of fun, and thanks to the folks here on the forum, I have learned a lot!!!

 

[CarolJ]

I'm very eager to hatch some eggs, too, and I've been lookin for an incubator. What kind do you use? Any advice before I buy one? Thanks!

 

[MuskokaChick]

I wish I as warned...addictive???

holymoly!

I have eggs in the incubator at Day 11, and I am already collecting for the next batch...*sigh*

 

[llrumsey]

3 brooders going, one incubator and looking for more eggs for the other incubator, I think we need AA or something, I hate winter because I cant hatch anything!

 

[1shotcleaner]

addictive is an understatement!!! i have 6 incubators and id fill all of them if i could find the eggs. 3years ago i had 3 1202's running at once and 3 trays hatching at once in one. and the other 2 had trays 1 week apart thats alot of peeps. thankfully my wife likes it too. soon you will be driving 3 hrs to get eggs and building bruder tanks and grow off pens it is a great addiction. have fun

 

[Speck & Gerard]

my mother just bought us an incubator and we have our first batch in, i tried to tell her how addicting it would be but i don't think she quite understood, she's getting it now, and just all excited, we're going to end up with way too many i can already tell and the first batch has only been in for like 4 days lol

 

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[redbudlane]

I have a Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco with the auto turner. I just love this little incubator. Super easy to set up and doesn't take up much space at all. I just put a cheap little humidity gauge in it that we found at wally world.

My third hatch is pretty much done I think, 20 out of 24 eggs have hatched. I don't candle (haven't tried it yet) so I figure that is pretty good. My first hatch I got 14/15 and my second was 21/24.

Out of the first hatch 9 were roosters. I sold one and gave the rest to a friend who had helped out when I broke my ankle earlier this spring. I kept the 5 hens as replacement hens. The second batch I sold to another friend. I will be keeping this batch myself and butchering the roosters.

One of my PBR hens was discovered today in the ram barn on a nest, not sure how many eggs she has under her. I have one PBR hen and one brown leghorn hen sharing a nest in a garbage can in the big barn. Not sure how many eggs are under them either. I have a little red cochin rooster running around so most of those chicks will probably by crosses.

I really would recommend the Brinsea Octagon 20, one of my most favorite toys!

 

[cmom]

I started out with an LG. I'm a hatch-a-holic!!!