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OT - source for turbo fan incubator for chickens

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Popster (MD)

01-31-2005 20:07:19




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Spring is approaching and my wife, a first grade teacher, always hatches out chicken eggs as part of her science unit.

Her old incubator died and she is looking to by the newest bestest most digital self turning..... you get the idea... at the best possible price. She needs to hatch about two dozen eggs. This as most other supplies comes out of our pocket.

Any suggestions as to good models and a good source from which to buy would be appreciated.

FWIW, One of my daughters had a pet chicken from her first batch of chickens. That barred hen lived 9 years, 6 of them in a cage in the kid's room. She was going strong when until new neighbor helped us out by putting fertilizer and lime pellets down on our grass.

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SteveB(wi)

02-01-2005 07:02:06




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 Re: OT - source for turbo fan incubator for chicke in reply to Popster (MD), 01-31-2005 20:07:19  
Just an idea, if you can get it locally farm store, elevator etc. see if they might donate it. Most schools have tax deduction forms for donations. Don't know the law there but minimum it should be sales tax exempt.



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souNdguy

02-01-2005 05:58:38




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 Re: OT - source for turbo fan incubator for chicke in reply to Popster (MD), 01-31-2005 20:07:19  
I got mine at a feed store.. but I think TSC carries one. might hold 2 dozen eggs.. It is foam, with a heater. You can get the auto turn insert for it. less that a hundred bucks total.

Probably a quarter of our turkey population came from that incubator, as well as at least a few broods of chix..

Soundguy



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TIMW(PA)

02-01-2005 03:59:34




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 Re: OT - source for turbo fan incubator for chicke in reply to Popster (MD), 01-31-2005 20:07:19  
My little sister had a pet "speckles" like that, one year. She used to carry it around all day. She'd run around the property and hold the chicken up to all the rose bushes covered in japanese beetles. She did that so much it took it a good long time to figure out how to eat like a normal chicken.....There wasn't a japanese beetle around that summer. It was great fun for us kids to run around gathering them up and we would throw them in a bucket of water so they couldn't fly then sit that bucket in with the chickens....they'd knock you over gettin to them. They'd clean up every last one.....Good ole days.....Tim

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Dave H (NY)

02-01-2005 03:41:35




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 Re: OT - source for turbo fan incubator for chicke in reply to Popster (MD), 01-31-2005 20:07:19  
I also use hovabators and purchase them from McMurray hatchery



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ratropia

02-01-2005 03:07:16




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 Re: OT - source for turbo fan incubator for chicke in reply to Popster (MD), 01-31-2005 20:07:19  
Check www dot mcmurrayhatchery dot com
change the words dot to the symbol. HTH



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DON TX

01-31-2005 21:47:49




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 Re: OT - source for turbo fan incubator for chicke in reply to Popster (MD), 01-31-2005 20:07:19  
I use 2 Lil' Giant incubators with egg turners. They hold 47 eggs each. They are sufficient but Hovibator is better from what I hear. They are styrofoam as well. I can't use the forced air circulator because it creates too much heat. TSC is where I got mine. With egg turner they run @ $75 and up. I have a barred rock that is in "detention" right now because he likes to sneak up on ya. A real pretty bird, but ya gotta watch yer back side. He may not make it to 2 yrs old. HTH
DON TX

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TIMW(PA)

02-01-2005 03:48:53




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 Re: OT - source for turbo fan incubator for chicke in reply to DON TX, 01-31-2005 21:47:49  
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I watched my Mamma kick a 40 yd. field goal with a big Plymouth white Rock like in this picture. She was walkin down the field when he come sneakin up behind her....She heard him coming and in one fliud movement she wheeled around midstride so that her leg was already back and kicked that guy right square in the chest. I watched that rooster literaly fly backwards...feathers everywhere..he didn't know what hit him. That thing was taken down a few notches that day and cured him for a long time..... Gettin flogged by a big old rooster with 3" spurs is definately no fun....Tim

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DON TX

02-01-2005 13:32:52




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 Re: OT - source for turbo fan incubator for chicke in reply to TIMW(PA), 02-01-2005 03:48:53  
I've put a boot upside 'im a several times. He straightens up for a week or so, and then here he comes! My wife and kid have to carry a stick with them outside. He follows my dad around the whole time he's out here. He better learn some manners soon. He is the only bird I have that has survived a coyote attack so I respect his ability to protect himself. I don't want to get rid of him, but...
DON TX

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TIMW(PA)

02-01-2005 16:31:24




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 Re: OT - source for turbo fan incubator for chicke in reply to DON TX, 02-01-2005 13:32:52  
Best roastin chicken I ever ate was an old rooster that wouldn't learn his lesson....Seems we always had a mean one....Anyway mom put him in an old rabbit hutch for several months and fattened him up. he couldn't run around.....Oohh boy was that ever a fat tender juicy chicken.....Get a new one and eat him before one of your kids loses an eye. those suckers will head for it every time....tim



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Dave OH

01-31-2005 22:35:50




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 Re: OT - source for turbo fan incubator for chicke in reply to DON TX, 01-31-2005 21:47:49  
My Grand-Children picked up a half dozen chickens last year at TSC, two looked like the picture of the barred hen, two were black and two were the large white ones. As you can tell I am no chicken expert but I raised them and let them free range.
My question is why did they all lay brown eggs? Is it the food they ate? I did supplement with chicken feed made available for them. Well to make a long story short we now have none. The wolf got loose ang ate three then the neighbors dog got loose and killed two and one went missing a while back, may have been a hawk or one of the coyotes we have in the area. Never did get my chicken soup for the winter.
Dave OH

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uh . . . Dell (WA)

02-01-2005 08:15:47




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 Re: OT - source for turbo fan incubator for chicke in reply to Dave OH, 01-31-2005 22:35:50  
Dave..... ...brown vs white vs green eggs are a chicken "breed" factor, not a feed factor. The color of the yoke can be a feed fractor, more fresh green feed, deeper darker yellow the yoke. Most chicken egg factorys use "Leghorn" breed which lay 1 white egg every day for over a year and a perceived cleanslyness factor. Brown eggs have a perceived non-verifiable organic health attribute. Also brown vs white shell eggs are a location factor for market sales. There is NO DIFFERENCE in neutrient values of white vs brown shell eggs..... ...Dell, who likes DUCK eggs better

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ratropia

02-01-2005 03:05:32




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 Re: OT - source for turbo fan incubator for chicke in reply to Dave OH, 01-31-2005 22:35:50  
The egg color is determined by breed, You can tell what color they lay by the color of their ear lobes. Darker or reddish means brown eggs. White means white eggs.



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