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msladyhawke said:
If you want something small to start I really love my brinsea mini advance.
I bought it directly from the brinsea website when it was on sale, plus I searched "brinsea coupon codes" online and got free shipping as well, or something like that I think.
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do you have the "auto" turner?..they look real nice.
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just got a little giant incubator yesterday. button quails are hatching right now and so it begins now i need to get a turner so i dont have to turn the eggs. cost as much as the incubator itself
 
yep i guess the turnig of the eggs does have as much to do with a succsessful hatch as the heat and humidity. but you would have a much better chance of getting something to hatch with the bator then just a turner
 
Blarneyeggs said:
Heather I would love to talk breeding strategies with you. I've got 4 black and 1 blue Cockerels.
I really want to keep my blue and maybe one young black as back-up, as I LOVE blues. How much do you let size play into your cull
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Oooooooo I like talking breeding! I love blues too!!! Size is only an issue if they are under the weight for the SOP. I don't keep birds just because they are giants, but I will cull ones that don't grow fast enough, as long as I like what I am seeing with other roosters. I want to be able to sell my roos for meat, so I don't want them lingering to long. I could type forever about this...........
 
I'm all ears!! You've already helped me with my hesitancy over my blue boy. I like his eye color, comb, and wing set, but he's only 6.5 lbs at 5 mos, where his hatch mate is 10 lbs. I think after he's promoted to 'alpha Roo' and isn't competing for food, that we'll see an increase in weight.

How long is 'too long' to keep a Roo for meat? Seems like the advice I keep getting from the Orpington threads is: keep em, keep em! But I can't house them all without them fighting or keep feeding them all until they've matured all the way, and WHEN is that, anyway?

 
Wasn't feeling to good and went to bed at 7 last night, sure did miss alot.....
misspurdy, I have a couple of the cheap little giants some with turners some without, ,,,these incubators need to be watched carefully, a slight temp change in the room will cause big changes inside the bator, as far as the turner, depends on what i have in, eggs I really want a good hatch on i try not to handle any more than i have to so they go in the turner.......good luck choosing, there's so many out there, really depends on individual circumstances.

Heather and Blarney, I am coming to this meeting about genetics, I read and read and still do not get it, I think I need visual in front of me to understand.

Ray when I finally make it to green dragon, you just point this reinhold guy out, He will not be getting cheap birds even if i have to take a truckload of roo's home with me..(can not stand to see them treated that way even if they are only for meat ) .. and I may get kicked out,,,,my brain to mouth filter sometimes does not work.

Don't remember who it was but I find the key to keeping lot's of roo's together is total seperation from any hen's....I have had up to 15 roo's in a pen without fighting, but they had no visual of any hen's.l
 

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