Okies in the BYC The Original

[Buckguy20]

Ok You incubator creators I have a question.
How hard would it be to build an incubator which would actually be several incubators for staggered hatching.
I think most people are in the same ballpark about how old is too old for hatching eggs and most would say no more than a week if that long.
So if you had a unit with four or six different bators inside you could stagger hatches accordingly. Does that make sense?

 

[chickensandmore]

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Yes I do it in mine all the time, and I have been reading that you can hold eggs 21 days if you keep them between 65 and 70 and turn once a day.
cause think about it..you just don't go to the coop and find a broody hen with 12 or so eggs under her she has to lay them, and I have only seen 1 hen in my life that would lay twice a day and that was only once in a while..and I am sure the hen next door doesn't say, Hey Red you want to go broody I will give you my eggs to make the farmer go crazy

Don

 

[chickensandmore]

Sometimes I think we read way to much into this hatching stuff..I have heard people say that they won't cover a hen with a roo from the same hatch..In the barn yard they don't think like that.
It's hey chickie you look good today, do like my dance??

Don

and this is JMPO

 

[HennyPennies2007]

OK somewhere the lie has gone out that I fed my dog the dang Big Mac. Truth be told, he STOLE it and ate the dang thing box and all.....off the table... behind my back...But he paid for it and so did we!!!!

I am hanging in there.... Just was a bumpy weekend.... Hubby is mad about job crap....He finished his journeyman's degree with his boss snapping at his heels.... He was supposed to get a 3 dollar an hour raise once he was climbing and bucket and pole rescue certified...and they gave him like 50 cents. He about stroked out...since they are hiring inexperienced guys for 4 bucks an hour more than he is making.... So I have to redo his resume and we will probably be moving.....unless someone coughs up that 3 bucks at the city here.....I have been really depressed. Just can't seem to get anything to go right recently. I am NOT leaving Oklahoma....

Anyways... does anyone have an incubator they would be willing to sell cheap....Like under 100.00? I have hatching fever, and Al didn't help....although I have to tell ya, Mrs. Squeaky has been investigating her old nest box and clucking....staring in it and clucking....going around the outside and clucking....Standing on the edge and clucking... so maybe she IS my incubator....

Wind is back....(*sigh*)

This weekend was awful.... dustclouds everywhere!!!

 

[Stimpy]

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I agree, when I build fine furniture pieces my drawings are detailed when working with $$$$$ hardwoods. My turners were stock retail ones bought at Attwoods, that was where I started as far as measurements. I wanted to use it as a gauge as far as how many turners it could hold for future upgrades and built around those figures.

AL

Al,

I didn't know that Atwoods sold turners. How much, and what are the dimensions?

-Stimp-

 

[Buckguy20]

Don, I don't get too hung up on how old the eggs are and I do turn mine at leaast once a day, but some folks won't hatch eggs that are more than three or four days old.
I am with you, when I lived back home on the farm, we had game chickens running everywhere. They would hide their nests out and then hatch almost every egg they laid. Sometimes it might be 15 chicks.
I get about eight to 12 dozen eggs per week when they are laying well. I would love to be able to hatch about 8 or 10 dozen eggs a week.
How many trays would that be in a frigabator?

 

[Stimpy]

Don,

I don't see anything difficult about building that cabinet. But I don't see a turner in it. I can't get interested in anything that requires me to turn eggs by hand. I never remember to do it on time.

-Stimp-

 

[chickensandmore]

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I get 5 Dz to the rack and that is 3 racks, I also have a turner on the very top shelf which holes another 40 so I could do 5 Dz per week plus extra on the 3rd week and that is just 1 bator..I am working on 1 that will hold 108 eggs per rack..
also I am thinking about building a cabinet model that will have 3 racks and hold a total of 324
plus a hatching tray..
I am having a hard time of letting go of the money for 2 good pieces of Plywood..

Don

 

[chickensandmore]

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Hey you just go down to Atwoods and get some turners and put in it problem solved..I am thinking about building it to hold 2 turners per rack..It's a piece of cake..
at atwoods turners are about 45.00 each still cheaper than a GQF

Don

 

[al6517]

Stimpy :

I had the same thought as you manually turning eggs, I am out on that. The turner measures 15" x 15" x 3" high, cost $49.00 bones ea. The cycle is 4 complete rotations every 24 hrs.

AL