Show off your Peas!

[Lil Zoo]

I have a new toy, I'm am so excited about. Got to keep you all in suspense for a while till I get at least the dust cleaned off of it. I'm just so so excited.

 

[zazouse]

Ok so lets all guess what it is before she gets back.
I say incubator

like a wooden one with a door

and lots of racks

 

[Lil Zoo]

Ok so lets all guess what it is before she gets back.
I say incubator

like a wooden one with a door

and lots of racks

There is no pulling the wool over your eyes. Ok here is picture of my new toy and my new White fellow that showed up unexplained at a lady's house. Mr. Wonder. He isn't as big as my Mr. White Snowball but I think he will be beautiful this spring. He like Mr. White is so pure white.


Mr. Wonder lost the one long tail feather he had when we picked him up. Now he would pass for a hen.
I am probably going to have as much in this incubator fixing it up as buying a modern new one, but so many of the pros say these redwoods are the way to go. It's unbelievable that it was made in the 1950's and is still so intact. I know I collect Kenmore sewing machines made between 1930 and 1950 I have been fixing them and restoring their cabinets for each of my daughters and my granddaughters. They don't do fancy stitches but they are work horses that you can even upholster furniture with. The new machines are only good for light weight materials and if something goes haywire you my as well junk it as to take it to get repaired. DH only made a small groan when I showed him (OUR winter project). After he got digging around in it, he became rather interested.

 

[zazouse]

That is a good one

, i wished i could find one like that around here, the one's i have are presswood with a lamanet coating and the bottoms are blistered from the hatching tray having moisture under it during lockdown.
I would love to put the insides of one of my incubators into one like that.

This will make you a great winter project when the weather gets bad.

Pretty boy you got there too.

 

[Lil Zoo]

I noted quite a few cheap ones in the Dallas area, but that is still quite a drive for you. You should go to google alerts and put in to be notified on incubator sales in your area. I did have to drive 177 miles to get this one. It costs $200 I might end up spending as much as a new one to restore but they say they are really well built 2 layers of redwood insulated between so they are suppose to hold heat and humidity. The fellow I got it from said he hatched wild turkey eggs about 10 years ago in it. It's been sitting in a shed since. He feels it still works, but I want to clean it really good before I try plugging it in. I look at it this way after last season I can only go up with the hatches. I'm sure I will still loose babies, but they should have a better chance. Me and my tiny house I got a lot of moving things around then I am going to put it in my sewing room and work on it this winter.

 

[zazouse]

Well i need another incubator like i need a another hole in my head, but when you get your done and tell me what you did i might get the fever

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Took some cute pictures of my trio of peas yesterday...need to post them on here. In the process of getting a bigger encloser for them. Bought a 10 x 10 x 6 ' chainlink fence, that will be their run, then at night they'll roost in a metal building we already have built. Pictures to come...


~ Aspen

 

[zazouse]

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Tamina


Tulsa


Prince, in the background



Hmmm...what is this?



MOM! Are you trying to posion us....AGAIN?

Humph! We are simply going to stick our beaks in the air and ignore her, that's what!







Enjoy

~ Aspen

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

This shall be their future living quarters:




~ Aspen