when should you stop incubating for the winter?

[nicoletm24]

I'm gonna have to start thinking about how to make a good heater in our outside shop to keep these things warm. Can't have them in the house, bad allergies and athsma....but I will keep them going!!!

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Im just starting to incubate this season. Eight days in now. I usually incubate all threw the school year. Hatching every weekend for about 40 weeks a year. Using web cameras to broadcast the hatches all over the world. Hatcher camera
My brooder is a large chest type freezer. I have a web camera in there to but I have to run new Ethernet cable out to it.

 

[Caprice_Acres]

I hatched some this spring with hatching eggs that i bought locally, but hadn't gotten around to separating MY chickens for hatching eggs until about a month ago... and then it was just isolating the roosters away from the hens for a few weeks. Now the hens have been in with the appropriate roosters for a week, and I'll be setting my first eggs from my hens tonight. I'll have EE's, New Hampshires, Brown Leghorns, and a few Rhode Island Reds. I really, really need to replace my New Hampshires, as most of them are 4-5 years old and laying terribly. HUGE eggs when they do lay, though.

I'm in MI and I do plan on keeping the chicks in my barn, but they'll still be exposed to temperature issues... I hope I can keep them in my basement of my house for a few weeks at least.