Utah!

[corvidae]

Ooo, I like the surge protector with the battery backup idea, if I can fine that set-up somewhere around here. I think I would have a little trouble getting the incubator out to the car without dumping all the eggs or breaking things--it weighs 80 pounds, plus, if I am not home when it happens, it wouldn't help. Can you run a generator inside the house? I've never used one before, so I'm not sure how it would work, with the incubator in my living room.

 

[the-bird-man]

Ooo, I like the surge protector with the battery backup idea, if I can fine that set-up somewhere around here. I think I would have a little trouble getting the incubator out to the car without dumping all the eggs or breaking things--it weighs 80 pounds, plus, if I am not home when it happens, it wouldn't help. Can you run a generator inside the house? I've never used one before, so I'm not sure how it would work, with the incubator in my living room.

no you would have to run it outdoors. generators have a engine so it would be like running your car in your house. you would have to run a extension cord from the generator into your home for you incubator to plug into

 

[Sphinx]

I like the battery backup idea too.


Love those swedish flower chicks. So pretty!!



I am not a chicken addict. I am happy. I do not have a problem.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

I like the battery backup idea too.


Love those swedish flower chicks. So pretty!!



I am not a chicken addict. I am happy. I do not have a problem.

Sure! I believe you, promise!

 

[corvidae]

I am not a chicken addict. I am happy. I do not have a problem.

Eh, that's the sign that it is time for an intervention. I'm just not sure if we should be intervening to get you more into the dark side, or out of the dark side!

 

[auntie hattie]

you guys are to funny about the chicken addiction thing. I'm telling you it is rubbing off on the rest of us. I can't stop looking at more hatching eggs and chicks.
Cynthia - my silkie is a partridge. She keeps trying to take the other silkies eggs. The little stink.

 

[the-bird-man]

silkies are always broody and sorry to say this but they do not lay too many eggs but they are always happy to hatch out chicks for you also did you know they have been used as medicine for about as long as there has been silkies?

 

[corvidae]

Hey, does anyone have any adult hens they would be willing to sell me? I am looking for two hens, around a year old. People at work are wanting to buy my eggs and I'm ending up with none to feed my kids! I'd like to get hens that lay colored eggs--either dark brown (like Wellsummers or Marans) or some variation of greens or blues, but they don't have to be purebred hens or anything. And at least one could be a white egg layer, since I don't have any hens that lay white at all. I could probably get hens on KSL, but mostly those seem to be chicks or older hens that aren't laying much anymore.

 

[Cynthia12]

You could get one of those adapters for your car----we have a deal that plugs into the cigarette lighter and has a plug on it to plug in electrical cords. You could haul that bator out to your car and keep it going for a while, maybe? Can your bator be moved? Or is it too much power and it would overload---my blowdryer blows ours out but a curling iron works, computer, dvd player, that kind of stuff. We use it when we go camping.

I've done this before..had to take my bator out during an outage..works great...car cigarette lighter, my bator came with the plug.

 

[Cynthia12]

no you would have to run it outdoors. generators have a engine so it would be like running your car in your house. you would have to run a extension cord from the generator into your home for you incubator to plug into

I was going to say that! So, yep..what bird man said.

We have a generator out in our shop. Used it for camping, but know it's there just in case..whew, my bator does not weigh 80lbs!
Easy to carry out, it's a tippy toe procedure though!