Why both an incubator and a hatcher?

[SundownWaterfowl]

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Thats what I do. I incubate my eggs in my Brinsea ocatgon 40, and then on day 18 I move the eggs to my hovabator 1602n to hatch.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

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What has come over me is that the darn silkies are apparently only going to go broody when I don't want them too! Brats. I have two dozen eggs on hold right now waiting on the little snots to be broody. Sure and we'll go broody when it's 2 degrees outside and the chicks are likely to freeze to death, but not now when the weather is getting nicer and spring is in the air. I swear, silkies are just hateful birds. So, I am threatening them with an incubator. Just as sure as I build one all 15 hens will go broody.

 

[hooksetz]

CITYGIRLINTHECOUNTRY Wrote;
So how are the two built different (if I theoretically were going to build either one)?




My hatcher is the same as my bators, the only difference is no egg turner. I use both so I can raise humidity levels on the last 3 days, and to avoid the mess in my bators. My hatcher has 5 meshed trays in it, I can seperate the eggies by breed and in the end know what hatches, rather than try to match chick w/ broken egg shell later. Ahatcher definately makes it easier.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Well, now that makes sense, hooksetz. I spend a lot of time saying "Which one is that, I wonder" when I have them hatch out under mama.

 

[Akane]

Cause my incubators look like this:

And now they also have button eggs in them with more button eggs coming. So I have what's due in my signature plus buttons due on the 17th which I haven't gotten around to adding and some buttons I will set this weekend which will hatch a week later. I can't have them all hatching in one bator. You can't open to turn within a few days of hatching or you'll drop the humidity and kill the ones getting ready to hatch and the ones that aren't ready to hatch may suffer negative effects from the high humidity needed for the ones hatching.