Alrighty, well I've decided to start following this thread... need to keep up with my neighbors! Plus, I need more than one thread to follow!
Okay, I worked very hard today! I currently have 5 dels in the brooder from Cyn, and once they move out I'll probably have Ameraucanas- BBS and (
) Lav in there. That is, if I can afford lav! Have you seen these auctions?? I doubt I'll be able to get any from here. Oh well...
Moving on, I took the old small cardboard box brooder (2x4) and tore it down. We received a nice orchid in the mail which came with two 5x2 boxes. So after the old brooder was ripped apart, I took one of the new boxes, filled it with everything and moved it in. The sides were a little low so I used the sides of the old box to stack on top of the sides so the chicks can't fly out, and added hardware cloth on half the top. In another two weeks I'll add the other box, and they'll move to the outdoors 6 1/2 weeks.
chicks!
And I also might make a mini fridge into an incubator if I can make a shelf in my real refrigerator into an egg shelf. Otherwise I'll be boring and use it for eggs.
So if it must hold eggs, I'm looking into either the Hovabator Genesis 1588 or the
Brinsea hatchmaker USDHAO1 (you can see it here
http://www.brinsea.com/prod-Hatchmaker_Incubator-3.aspx) The only thing is, I would like to have an auto turner which isn't offered with the hatchmaker. Maybe I'll add rocks in a corner to hold the temp/humidity after I've hand-turned?