Rural Gardening: Going to try incubating for the first time, 1 by green04735

green04735 wrote:
I got this tiny incubator of ebay last year and have not dared to try incubating for one this bator is really small and has no humdity thingy and a paper temp gage,its make of plastic with a tiny hole in the top and the cover does not fit snug,it looked bigger on ebay and I didn`t know what I was buying I guess,Oh well have some silkie eggs going to give it a try in a couple days,trying to get it regulated so it will stay between 100 and 98 (GOING TO BE HARD TO DO)It stays close to 100 in the daytime but we turn our furnace down to 62 at night and it was 94 this morning but it says to wrap tin foil around one side it you can`t keep the temp up,so going to fool around with it some more then give it a try.I felt so bad this morning when I got up and seen one of my 7 month old silkie pullets outside.I thought they were all in last night when I put the door down,she must have been under the ramp,it was 16 when I got up this morning at 6;45,I was like a wild woman in my bathrobe and muck boots running outside to put her it,I had the heat lamp on inside and she got wrmed up quick,hope there is no efects form this.She seems fine,I thought and was told that they are not a hardy chicken,she has proved me wrong.They just started laying last week.From now on I will count and look behid the coop!!!I put an orange beside the bator so you could see how small it is,not muc bigger than the orange it hold three to four silkie eggs I`m going to try three.Opened up two of the silkie eggs and one was fertile.I have two and will wait untill I get another one.