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PapaChaz said:
not a good morning here at all from one aspect. When my last batch of eggs hatched, I turned off the bator and cleaned it out. This morning I turned the incubator back on, set a small water tray in it, letting it warm up to put a dozen OE eggs and the dozen eggs from the meet saturday. So I fixed another cup of coffee and came sat back down since it's raining out and I can't go do much outside, and started smelling something..... apparently the controller went bad, never shut off the heat element and it just about caught on fire. Showed 118* on the control AND on the thermometer that was inside is pegged. Thank you Lord that it rained this morning and I was inside. it got hot enough inside to melt the plastic trays in the egg turner and it did so well on the last hatch too......
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That stinks can you put them into the foam bator to start until you fix it
 
carlene lamolin said:
That stinks can you put them into the foam bator to start until you fix it
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I sold the foam bators, and I'm at the stage now where if I buy the parts it would take to fix this one, I'll have as much in it as a new one. Although, I've sold enough chicks to pay me back about half what I have in it.

I can gut it, the box itself isn't hurt because it's metal. The foam insualtion and molded plastic inside can be taken out easy enough. Might make a good summer project. I was going to hatch the 2 dozen eggs I've collected here and and the dozen from saturday, guess that's out, although I'm going to see what happens if I put that dozen from sat under the broody.....

the only thing I'd worry about with a deep hay bowl nest is will she be able to turn them, and having them on top each other IE: shell on shell, would that put them in danger of cracking
 
PapaChaz said:
not a good morning here at all from one aspect. When my last batch of eggs hatched, I turned off the bator and cleaned it out. This morning I turned the incubator back on, set a small water tray in it, letting it warm up to put a dozen OE eggs and the dozen eggs from the meet saturday. So I fixed another cup of coffee and came sat back down since it's raining out and I can't go do much outside, and started smelling something.....

apparently the controller went bad, never shut off the heat element and it just about caught on fire. Showed 118* on the control AND on the thermometer that was inside is pegged. Thank you Lord that it rained this morning and I was inside. it got hot enough inside to melt the plastic trays in the egg turner

and it did so well on the last hatch too......

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Your Guardian Angel was watching out for you, glad you were awake, do you have good smoke detectors?

ShadesofSable said:
Quick. Some one else buy these so I don't!
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Hey we could go halves and send the eggs to Carcar since she has great success with shipped eggs!!!!
GAMarans said:
I would love to but I don't have the $5500 (plus parts to get it in proper running condition) to spend on bird stuff.


Papachaz ... holy crap! That sucks that the incubator did that but so glad that you were in the house to catch it.
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We could have a community bator.

Gam show Gamjr these pics her boy loves his new wife







 
katsdar said:
Hey we could go halves and send the eggs to Carcar since she has great success with shipped eggs!!!!  
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Shoot, if @carcar80 is down for that and they don't get sold first I would probably cave... I have no luck with shipped eggs at all. We could split what ever hatches 3 ways.
 
PapaChaz said:
I sold the foam bators, and I'm at the stage now where if I buy the parts it would take to fix this one, I'll have as much in it as a new one. Although, I've sold enough chicks to pay me back about half what I have in it.

I can gut it, the box itself isn't hurt because it's metal. The foam insualtion and molded plastic inside can be taken out easy enough. Might make a good summer project. I was going to hatch the 2 dozen eggs I've collected here and and the dozen from saturday, guess that's out, although I'm going to see what happens if I put that dozen from sat under the broody.....

the only thing I'd worry about with a deep hay bowl nest is will she be able to turn them, and having them on top each other IE: shell on shell, would that put them in danger of cracking
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Sorry to see this.

My cabinet is running and there's room if you want me to incubate for you.
 
@ShadesofSable Where is @carcar80 when you need her!!! I bet she would do this and a 3 way split I'm game, then we would have our own, you know we would at least end up with one boy and girl, see if they will add a few extra eggs for just in case. I just don't have any luck with shipped eggs either.
 
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I have space in my cabinet too but also told him to come get this styrofoam one back for now. I don't need it before school starts back.
 

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