Plastic Egg Trays for Incubators... What are the best sizes?

[Wolf-Kim]

Okay. I am about to order the plastic incubating trays for my incubator. I would like order as few as possible.

I hatch quail and chickens, but I would like to order the sizes that are most usable.

I don't want to have to order a tray for chickens, a tray for quail, a tray for pheasants, and tray for bantams, etc.

Is it possible to order two sizes to the wide variety of egg sizes?

How well do chicken eggs sit in a turkey/peafowl egg tray?

Could you fit turkey and peafowl eggs into chicken trays?

How well do quail eggs sit in the bantam/pheasant/guinea size try?

I don't need a tray for goose eggs, those can just sit on the wire rack, since they seem to do better laying on their side anyway.

Thanks everyone!
-Kim

 

[bluey]

I prefer medium to large or a size 12...

 

[FisherMOM]

I don't know much about incubating.. but I see that there is such a tray as a universal tray

http://www.poultrysupply.com/cabinet.html

 

[poultrylady]

I think it depends on how many eggs you want to hatch at one time. A quail tray will hold 124 eggs, if you are getting alot of eggs I believe they are worth buying. I use the quail trays for my quail eggs. They really will not fit in the chicken trays, to small.
Chicken eggs will ft in the turkey trays, but you cannot put as many eggs in them. The turkey trays I use hold 30 eggs, the chicken trays 48. Sometimes the turkey eggs will fit in the chicken trays, i have had some that were just to large though. If you don't care how many eggs you are hatching at one time a turkey tray will work for the chickens to. I like to put as many eggs as possible in the incubator so I use seperate trays for chickens, turkeys and quail.
Bantam, pheasents, and guineas will fit in the chicken trays just fine. I order mine from GQF.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Thank you! There will be 6 trays in my incubator at a time, so I'm not exactly strapped for space. It is a refrigerator incubator, fullsized. I really appreciate the input. I didn't want to have to purchase 6 different sizes of trays, it just seemed like a waste of money. Then again, I am cheap.

-Kim