- Feb 1, 2012
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Hey folks.
I'm hatching regular chick eggs, and I'm wanting to hatch 4-6 American Buff geese eggs as well. I know, I -need- to put them in a separate incubator due to the different humidity needs, and the different hatch times, etc.
With such a small number though, I'm having a hard time. There are small incubators that will hold 2-3 eggs (I'm afraid none would hatch, and it would break my heart), or my Hovabator, which holds a few dozen, which seems silly to heat and maintain for so few eggs.
Does anyone have good experience with homemade incubators? Which would you recommend for this situation? I saw a "Sunny Side Up" incubator on Ebay, but I don't know how much to trust it. My last hatch all pipped internally and then died in shell (the cat thought the top of the cheeping incubator was PERFECT to haul up her blanket and sleep atop. The temp inside was 108* when I found her up there and shooed her off.
So I'm now really worried that they won't hatch at all. *wibbles*
Also, I have 10 different thermometers, and they ALL read different temps. Some are 'mercury' (I know, it's alcohol, but still), some are digital, some are spring. How on earth do I find out which is correct, and calibrate the others to it??? I had one, wasn't sure if it was accurate, so I bought another, and then that didn't match with the first, so I bought a third to see which of the two was wrong, and got a third temp, and so on and so forth so far.
So yeah.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
(Also, real quick. I'm looking for someone who will be selling fertile American Buff geese eggs this spring.. but I -don't- want to order right now, because I don't have an incubator for it. I've spent the last few months searching online, and aside from 1 site, I can't find them. Does anyone have any ideas on this one?)
I'm hatching regular chick eggs, and I'm wanting to hatch 4-6 American Buff geese eggs as well. I know, I -need- to put them in a separate incubator due to the different humidity needs, and the different hatch times, etc.
With such a small number though, I'm having a hard time. There are small incubators that will hold 2-3 eggs (I'm afraid none would hatch, and it would break my heart), or my Hovabator, which holds a few dozen, which seems silly to heat and maintain for so few eggs.
Does anyone have good experience with homemade incubators? Which would you recommend for this situation? I saw a "Sunny Side Up" incubator on Ebay, but I don't know how much to trust it. My last hatch all pipped internally and then died in shell (the cat thought the top of the cheeping incubator was PERFECT to haul up her blanket and sleep atop. The temp inside was 108* when I found her up there and shooed her off.
Also, I have 10 different thermometers, and they ALL read different temps. Some are 'mercury' (I know, it's alcohol, but still), some are digital, some are spring. How on earth do I find out which is correct, and calibrate the others to it??? I had one, wasn't sure if it was accurate, so I bought another, and then that didn't match with the first, so I bought a third to see which of the two was wrong, and got a third temp, and so on and so forth so far.
So yeah.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
(Also, real quick. I'm looking for someone who will be selling fertile American Buff geese eggs this spring.. but I -don't- want to order right now, because I don't have an incubator for it. I've spent the last few months searching online, and aside from 1 site, I can't find them. Does anyone have any ideas on this one?)
