Home Made Incubators

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Home Made Incubators
« on: March 30, 2020, 20:59 »
Dear all,

I’ve seen online people creating incubators from cardboard boxes and light bulbs.  Has anyone experience of actually doing this and successfully hatching eggs please? If so, what wattage bulbs did you use for what size of box?

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Re: Home Made Incubators
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2020, 19:30 »
Incubators require humidity as well as light and heat. They are not very expensive to buy if doing lots, but please think what you will do with cockerels. You can buy hen chicks, which would require a heat lamp

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Re: Home Made Incubators
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2020, 11:04 »
Thank you very much for the reply.

Please excuse me if this is a stupid question, but how do you tell a cockerel from a hen when the chicks are a day old?  To be honest I wouldn’t know what I was buying or being given.

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Re: Home Made Incubators
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2020, 12:43 »
some hens are autosexing. Isa brown hens,egg sheds, Isa cockerels,meat, lots of different breeds. Chicks are different colours.
Experts can hand sex chicks, but normally you can tell from wing feathers and neck feathers.
If you do not want males, you will need to cull. You have 50% chance per egg, I had 4 cockerels and 1 hen chick, which died, 1 year but I had a broody hen and was lucky that people needed cockerels nearby.
Most important is to get the run/house set up right (weather, vermin, space etc), then see what is available, but isolation means lack of resources to build as well as purchasing.



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