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......
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
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
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.
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
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.
@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.
