The one I am most excited about is my incubator.
This chicken "Math" has really begun to add up at my house. I started off with 5 hens just after the new year and now I have 25 hens and 2 roosters. Alas, I am done buying laying hens. Now I am moving on to chicks and incubating.
I have been getting alot of insperation from a site that I frequent often back yard chickens.
I decided to take a look at some ideas for a brooder as I am getting 5 chicks on the 10th, for free! But then I also went on to sneek a peek at all the amazing incubators that these brilliant people have come up with. I went threw the house and found that I had all the makings for an incubator made from one of my 10 gallon fish tanks. Before I really knew it I was gathering it all up and putting it together.
Here is where I was going to list the things needed to make my incubator and put pics, but I got tired that night and put this blog on hold and went to bed. I woke up the next morning and my temp shot up from 99 to 106 overnight. The reason for this is that about 15min before I went to bed I had truned the eggs and let the heat out. I wanted the temp to get back to 99 as fast as possible so I put a towel ontop of the lid to help. Well it helped the temp alright, but I forgot to take it off the lid and just went to bed. So I had 31 cooked eggs in the incubator.
Well my wonderful husband, being the great Chief that he is, told me to just go and buy a real incubator. So I did! 25 eggs went into the battor lastnight around 5pm. That sets them up for an April fools day hatch! I am so very excited.
Thanks to a fellow blogger informing me that my colors on this here blog were to hard on the eyes I have changed them. I really hope that this makes it more pleasant to read! Again thank you for your input and sugestion.
I have to admit, we used a homemade incubator three or four times, and each time I had to babysit it almost constantly. We finally got a "real" incubator, Little Giant, from a friend of ours. Even if we didn't get it from him, we would have purchased one because it makes it a WHOLE lot easier to incubate.
ReplyDeleteAn incubator is great for the ability to watch the prosses, but I love having broody hens to hatch and raise chicks. They tend to hatch a day earlier and you can give her the eggs and forget about it. Other than food and water for momma hen. Sorry for the delay in my reply, I guess I do not get alerts when I get a comment.
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