Would It Be Wrong...?

[HatchCraft]

I encourage you to do so. I honestly don't think she will mind. I wouldn't even bother with a turner. Hand turn twice a day, It will be fine.

 

[GotCoop]

If you can find some sort of manual to see exactly how it's supposed to be set up and what should be used, might be fun to try. It uses a light bulb? I always kind of thought that type used kerosene, dunno why.

I would probably fill whatever wells it has fully or put a big pan of water in it for quite a few days ahead of time to make sure that wood isn't overly dried out.

Let us know how it goes.

Good point...old wood might suck up the moisture.

 

[townchicks]

Hey, I'll enable with the rest of you most of the time, but not now. That's the wife's project, and speaking as a wife that likes those kinds of things, "DON'T YOU DARE" It's way cool, and will make a great conversation piece. Use your other incubator. Please.

 

[Cryss]

Hey, I'll enable with the rest of you most of the time, but not now. That's the wife's project, and speaking as a wife that likes those kinds of things, "DON'T YOU DARE" It's way cool, and will make a great conversation piece. Use your other incubator. Please.

Yeah, but it's only for 3 weeks while she's not even there to start restoring it. By the time she gets home he'll be done and she can do her thing.
Look in the dictionary under "enabler". Yup, that's my picture there.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Hey, if you are restoring it, why not restore it completely, make it work and test it at least once? It is always nice to have a backup bator! It will be even more of a conversation piece if you can say it works and you actually hatched chicks in it.

 

[Al Capon]

Very cool, you don't run into those every day. No way I'd ruin it and turn it into a table.

 

[townchicks]

Hey, if you are restoring it, why not make it work and test it at least once?

Um, because it's wood, and incubation requires humidity. Besides, maybe the wife will want to be there to watch the process, if she really would be ok with it. I really don't think he should do it w/o permission, highly unlikely to find a replacement, if it gets wreaked. Just thinking, if it were me, and my hubby did that, well, I suppose I might forgive him, eventually...but he wouldn't be happy for a while.
But if you do, of course I want to watch with the rest of the gang.

 

[Mosey2003]

Good point...old wood might suck up the moisture.

Yep, it's meant to. That's why the best old incubators are made from redwood

I don't think using it is going to hurt it, it will dry back out again. I can't imagine any way he'd actually wreck it.

 

[WindingRoad]

Is that a duck or a chicken. Cool pic though

 

[GotCoop]

Y'all have given me some good ideas. I could tell her that I was just trying to "condition" the wood in prep for refinishing...get it up to a proper moisture content for here in Florida. Just needed a source of heat and water...

But she does own guns, so I do have to also consider the potential risk.