?? when do u fire up ur Bator ??

[Home Grown Poultry]

Those are certainly incubators looks like hes restoring them. I build mine, holds 90 chicken eggs in one and about 60 in the other Im not sure with those incubators but they probably hold 30 eggs / rack and the bottom 3 are for the eggs... 90/incubator 360 eggs total now thats pretty sweet! if i had 4 incubators like that I would set one full of eggs per week so I would be hatching chicks out of one incubator per week, I would have at least 4 brooders that each was double the size of the one before. and then the day before hatch day, move all the chicks up a brooder. Man that would be an incredible system, oh you have my wheels turning!

I would set eggs if I had any but all my birds are free loaders right now, about 40 hens. free loaders. but to be fair we just moved and they have went through a bunch of changes over the last 2 months.

[VissersPoultry]

BTW "VissersPoultry" are those all incubators? Are you Making them or restoring them?
Are the four layers inside for eggs or keeping the chicks warm?
I wish I had room for that many chicks ~ maybe my next place (*o*)

I got six of those incubators hopefully I will have four by the time I am done with them. I am restoring them, 4 of them were sitting in a barn and the parts were rusty and a couple were falling apart. The other two I bought and lets just say don't always trust everyone on kijiji. But got all the parts for them now. Two will be hatchers the ones with four-five trays and the other two have three trays and turn for incubating eggs. They are 1202 GQF sportmans and I also have an older model hatcher that i think is an 800 series. They can hold about 360 eggs each.
Still debating if I should keep all four or just two.

[Home Grown Poultry]

Thats Awesome man! tough decisions eh!

[Killerbunny]

You should keep them all just in case. Then you have enough to simplify any incubation /hatching requirements for all species. Hope that helps LOL!

[Home Grown Poultry]

^

enabler! HAHAH

[coonhound]

i start in dec done by april early may usually 300 to 500 chicks out

[kenya]

I have some in now, I put them in whenever the ones I want are laying, just small batches of a dozen or so, easier to look after a small group rather than a large group.

[Poultryprincess]

OK I need a BIG favor from you Poultry People

DO NOT TELL ME YOU HAVE EGGS IN THE BATOR "RIGHT NOW"!!!!!
~ I'm NOT going to hatch right now!!!
~ the urge is getting stronger!!!
~ the will is getting weaker
~ for the sake of all that is holy - STOP!!!!!!!!!

( oh forget about it.....just torture me....it's in my head now )

[Killerbunny]

And my turkeys decided to begin mating again -oh no!

[Home Grown Poultry]

LOL PP!!!

I have a banty sitting on a handful of unknown mix banty eggs... see what happens!