Rural Gardening: Just another homemade incubator, 1 by maineiac

maineiac wrote:
My 8 year old daughter (Grace) was the most upset. She asked if we were going to have 40 funerals! From the mouth of babes!

The timing is actually better for them to be re-shipped that first week of March, as I have 50 other Wyandottes coming from Ideal and Welp hatcheries, so all 90 should land here within a couple of days of each other. My second batch of Serama bantams (in the homemade bator) are also due to hatch that same time. That will be a busy week!! For anyone reading this that may be asking themselves if I am crazy, the answer is absolutely yes. I am raising most of these biddies to sell as started layers, or freezer birds depending on how many we keep for ourselves. Here is one of the brooders that I made out of a roll of old carpet.