I want to be outside today, but I'm stuck inside! Arrrgghhh!!!
On the freezer-bator...I keep thinking. (I know; bad habit!) It's a chest freezer, 10 cubic feet but I don't know the dimensions. It would be better for me if it were an upright, as reaching the bottom is getting harder. Not a problem with a freezer being a freezer, but with an incubator, I'd be in it more often. I'm thinking I might find a broken dorm fridge and use that. Or just break down and plan on getting a good incubator for myself for my next birthday. That'll give me plenty of time to think it over. No matter what brand of styrofoam incubators I get, after a year or so I can no longer disinfect them well enough, and the hatch rate drops. This last hatch was the worst ever, although it seems nearly half were clears, so it wasn't just the bator. Still, I spend every summer fighting with them, and I'm tired of it.
The freezer could still make a dang fine brooder, though.
mighty quiet tonight
I would think a fan would be quite necessary. But just for the chicks. I'm not moving in with them.
Well, that's a very generic question actually. With the 100's of breeds out there... you can easily dwindle it down but you'll still get a dozen answers. You generally have a lot of break down because you automatically get rid of bantams... small eggs, less laying. Though some of my birds who are small lay like champs and really over achieve on quanity. Then you have a few people who have the exception to the rule and have EXCELLENT layers of double yolkers but they only rock at it because their mama rocked as a good layer. Family genetics over breed...
So, to save yourself having to narrow down your choices.... go out and start a flock with like 10 favorites... then with Matt's chicken math in a year you'll have 200 chickens and more eggs then you can handle!!!
At least, that's what I'm doing! hahaha
Enjoying the ride
