She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[scflock]

Say hello to my little incubator

 

[meganhundley]

Have you guys seen the contact incubator from Brinsea? It actually has a bladder that inflates with heated air and rests on the eggs like a broody hen.
Only $4000, and it holds 60 eggs e
http://www.brinsea.com/p-489-contaq-z6-2nd-generation-contact-incubator.aspx

I hope it pays for their college tuition, too

I don't know if I want 1 that does all that, I just want 1 that isn't so darn touchy, lol. I think I'll have nightmares about heat spikes and giant temp knobs chasing me saying "turn me, you know you want to" for the next couple months after this.

 

[meganhundley]

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In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

In this case you get the chicks first and the rest follows, lol

 

[scflock]

I don't know if I want 1 that does all that, I just want 1 that isn't so darn touchy, lol. I think I'll have nightmares about heat spikes and giant temp knobs chasing me saying "turn me, you know you want to" for the next couple months after this.

The styrofoam 'bators are touchy, but Amylynn can walk you through it. You don't have to spend $4000 on one, but if you start hatching a lot, you would be amazed how much easier a $400 one can make life.
Or, you can do like sideWing and build one for $25 that kicks my butt

 

[scflock]

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In this case you get the chicks first and the rest follows, lol

Great reply

 

[meganhundley]

Great reply

 

[lazy gardener]

The styrofoam 'bators are touchy, but Amylynn can walk you through it. You don't have to spend $4000 on one, but if you start hatching a lot, you would be amazed how much easier a $400 one can make life.
Or, you can do like sideWing and build one for $25 that kicks my butt

Or like LG who built her own which is not a LG.

 

[meganhundley]

The styrofoam 'bators are touchy, but Amylynn can walk you through it. You don't have to spend $4000 on one, but if you start hatching a lot, you would be amazed how much easier a $400 one can make life.
Or, you can do like sideWing and build one for $25 that kicks my butt

I wanted to try and build my own but my husband kept dragging his feet on making me a fiberglass box to encase it and I kept looking on Craigslist obsessively and I found 1 20 minutes from where we live for $30 with an auto turner and a free hatching box so I jumped on it, lol. Everyone else wanted $50+ for just the bator with no turner or anything. I still want to build 1 of my own though. I'm seriously thinking about marketing it once we get it all planned out and built. Does anyone know if they commercially make a small fiberglass bator yet? Like the size of the LG and such?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I have a ?: do you have to take the rails out for lockdown? I'm nowhere near that yet, my batch just started its 2nd day 3 hours ago but I was just wondering. I really don't want to have to adjust the temp again, lol, it was such a pain to get right the 1st time. If I take the rails out wouldn't I have to adjust the temp again so it's the right temp where the eggs are? Since mine is still air and there seems to be a big difference in temp from top to bottom? I'd prefer to leave that adjustment knob where it is and never ever touch it again. I'm scared of that dang knob, lol.

K, as long as I don't have to adjust the temp again I'll be ok.

Yes it is best to take the turner out because it's easier for chicks to get hurt especially legs and you have a higher risk of splayed legs from them slipping on the plastic and YES chances are to maintain the right temps you will have to adjust it because for one, they are lower and two those turner motors give off a significant amout of heat and when you take them out, you loose that heat. Hatchers with bators that have thermostats don't see this but those of us that don't do see it and need to adjust for it. The trick with the 9200 is wiggling it just barely toward the increase till the light flashes on and then giving it time to see if it adjusts and give another wiggle if necessary. Another thing you can do and I have used this trick, is pointing the brooder light at the incubator and turning it on. This will give it a little extra heat and keep from having to adjust if you don't mind the light on it.

Can someone please 'splain me why humidity is so critical when using an incubator, considering that if the eggs were under a hen, as in nature, the ambient humidity would be whatever it was, which would vary greatly over 3 weeks?

http://letsraisechickens.weebly.com...anuals-understanding-and-controlling-humidity

 

[RubyNala97]

It's super hot and muggy today, so I went to bring the chickens a cold snack and when I opened the run, no exaggeration, there was about 2dozen flies in the run! What the heck! Will that bother the chickens?

Nice, thanks.  I know I wouldn't use that model but it's good to see what others do.

My plan is just to charge for the plastic flat, half an incubator tray no matter how many that flat holds, for the number of weeks of incubation.  One half tray will pay for running the incubator, the rest would be profit.  That would make it economical as well as convenient for planning purposes.

What did you think about them offering the vaccine?