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03-28-2009, 01:33 AM | #1 |
Love my Mika!!! Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Cheshire UK
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| Anybody ever incubated eggs before? I'm looking to buy a R-com incubator for Easter. Its not technically for the kids as I'll have to do all the work but I know they'll love watching the eggs hatch and the birds grow! We don't have a large garden and won't be able to keep the birds but my mum has some land where she keeps goats/hens/ducks etc. Or I was considering raising painted quails and selling them to the petshop.(We are close friends with the owners of our local petshop and they are fab people who truly care for the animals and treat the animals as their own pets, they def. never sell puppies and only buy any live stock from small local breeders not huge commercial breeders). Does anyone have any experience with this? The r-com is fully automatic and all I will need to do is top up the water when the alarm beeps so I'm not worried about that, and I've bought a Novital brooder for the first couple of weeks then I'm going to use a free standing brooder in a large plastic box/cage. So my main question is what birds to start with? Quails Turkeys Geese Ducks Hens I was thinking quails because they are so small so easier to accomodate for our first go at this I have done alot of research but would love to hear personal opinion based on experience! Thanks in advance!
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03-28-2009, 06:12 AM | #2 |
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| If you incubated chicken eggs, you wouldn't be able to tell which were hens before they hatched, would you? I incubated chicken eggs before and of the three that hatched, all three were roosters. It was an interesting experience though.
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03-28-2009, 06:20 AM | #3 |
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| I haven't incubated eggs since I was a child, so I don't remember anything about it! We had thought about raising some birds for 4-H this year though, but decided that we have too much going on right now and are trying to find another goat for my oldest to show since his passed away over the winter I would love to raise some quail or something like that though!
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03-28-2009, 09:08 AM | #4 | |
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The quails are my first choice at the moment though and I've found a great breeder to get my hatching eggs!
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03-28-2009, 09:36 AM | #5 |
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| It's been a long long time for me since my parents incubated their peacocks eggs and even longer since my grandparents incubated eggs. It seems like I remember something about the temperature having something to do with gender. Could that be right or is that just an old wives tale?
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03-28-2009, 09:50 AM | #6 |
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| When we were still homeschooling we did a hatching project. Unfortunately, the incubator that I borrowed from my brother in law was reliable (unbeknownst to us) we had a dozen fertile eggs and religiously did what we were suppose to do. We were almost to the end when the heater on the incubator spiked. When hatching day came, nothing happened. We decided to give it another day or two "just in case" Well, my husband decided it was time to call it (he was raised on a chicken farm) he took the eggs out and broke them open. Sadly, they all contained fully formed and feathered chicks. They died with the temp. spike. We were all disappointed. Probably none more than my son. We went out that afternoon and got 2 hens and a rooster (teenagers as we called them :P) We named them Laverne, Shirley and Fonzie. Laverne was the last one living and sadly she just passed away this week.
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03-28-2009, 12:04 PM | #7 | |
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03-28-2009, 12:26 PM | #8 | |
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03-28-2009, 12:36 PM | #9 |
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| What a neat idea! My hubby loves quail..that might be something our whole family could get into provided we'd have a place to let them go at. |
03-28-2009, 02:45 PM | #10 |
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| I've done it several times. Always chickens though. I also turned the eggs everyday. I think the last batch I only lost 1! I gave them all to some people out in the country when they were about 3 weeks. They grow fast and make a huge mess! I wish we could have them were we live! |
03-28-2009, 03:15 PM | #11 |
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| I just realized--as I am sure you could figure it out but...that I typed the incubator was reliable. Obviously, I mean unreliable.
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03-28-2009, 06:35 PM | #12 |
Donating YT 11K Club Member | I've never incubated eggs but that sounds interesting. Where do you get the eggs from?
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03-28-2009, 06:58 PM | #13 |
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| You have to have a reliable heat source, turn the eggs at least once per day and have a moisture source in the incubator otherwise the eggs will dry up. Make sure you buy eggs that are fertilized!!LOL
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03-28-2009, 06:58 PM | #14 |
No Longer a Member | We used to raise Quail, If you plan on raising some, better read up on them because they are hard to raise. They get pneumonia easy and have to be fed medicated food with Amprol to control coccidiosis. Also be careful as the coccidiosis can spred to your other animals. They will drown in the water if the hole is too big.Chicks kept together in a relatively confined space such as in a brooder have a tendency to peck each other, a nasty habit which can lead to deformed beaks and sometimes even death, we used to clip beaks to prevent cannabalism. They are cute little fellows just hard to raise. |
03-28-2009, 07:35 PM | #15 |
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| We did that in 4th Grade as a science project (a long time ago). My teacher at the time had connections with our local college - Michigan State University and arrange to borrow all the equipment. I can remember how exciting it was for our class to watch process. We had someone from the college come in one day and they used a light bulb to show us the progress of our eggs/Chickens. Now the downside was as someone mentioned, cute little chicks soon grow into big old, sometimes mean Hens and Roosters. Our parents had to sign off on either 1, letting us bring the complete project home or 2, donating them to the Small Animal Farm at Michigan State. My parent opted for the second choice...I was heartbroken and had ambitions of being a Chicken Farmer for about 3 months. I do remembe it was fun and as a child I was fascinated with whole process. That may contribute to me such an animal lover.
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