On 11/19/07, Mic Rushen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aw, too cute! > > I just bought a cheap incubator on ebay so we may get a few of these > too. > > Mic >
I got the hovabator on ebay :) Hey, I used to have a lousy hatch rate til I got rid of the "automatic turner". My friend susan told me if you turn by hand three times a day you get a better hatch rate, that its natures way, you are handling the eggs in a manner more like a mother hen. i thought well, the temps would drop and affect things but she said no, the mother hen usually leaves the nest briefly once a day to take care of her needs, its natures way, and it works! Just get the temps perfectly on 100 and then put the eggs in. I got these eggs from a person who sells "Indian Runner Duck Asst" on ebay and last time man I got one of the most incredible beautiful ducks! Color and markings like a brown quail! But I have such a high coyote disappearance rate. I lose so many. Now I have coming some more golden phoenix, the chickens with long tails. I see on ebay they have some AWESOME hatching eggs in the UK but i think that would be too far and too long a trip and too much jostling for egg viability. I have only been ripped off once on ebay, where none of the eggs were fertile and the person refused to stand by it in any way. But seems every time i buy chicks from the feed store they die. I see in the UK you can get incredible exotic hatching eggs for chickens we dont have here, or they are rare. Like Cuckoo maran etc. For egg chickens I like buff orpingtons and they are hard to find here so I get the eggs on ebay, and I see they have tons of them in the UK. hey maybe there is a chicken list... i never looked. Janice-- yipie tie yie yo
