What are you currently incubating/brooding?

[shirlthegirl43]

Can I pop in here again and ask if anyone knows where I can hire or borrow an incubator?

[RichmondHens]

Can I pop in here again and ask if anyone knows where I can hire or borrow an incubator?

Your local smallholders society (you may need to pay a membership fee if you are not a member)? Or local agricultural college?

[shirlthegirl43]

Your local smallholders society (you may need to pay a membership fee if you are not a member)? Or local agricultural college?

Don't think there is one here

[OverWyreGrower]

Shirl - have you googled it? There are a few places that do hire them out (one is down the road from us) however, although the costs for hire seem fairly reasonable, they ask for a large returnable deposit (£200)....

[shirlthegirl43]

Shirl - have you googled it? There are a few places that do hire them out (one is down the road from us) however, although the costs for hire seem fairly reasonable, they ask for a large returnable deposit (£200)....

Genius! I have found somewhere that will hire an incubator or take your eggs for hatching!!!! Thank you OWG

[OverWyreGrower]

Genius! I have found somewhere that will hire an incubator or take your eggs for hatching!!!! Thank you OWG

Yay! Good news!

[shirlthegirl43]

Yay! Good news!

I will update when I hear back from them

[petal]

well you can just take the duck eggs off my list. We lost them last night due to this chciktec incubator I got recently second hand off someone on practical poultry - it went into melt down, literally and cooked the eggs and itself.

[shirlthegirl43]

I give up, the people I contacted have not come back so I guess they don't want to know about hatching my eggs or hiring me the equipment to do it. I am worried that the eggs have been waiting for over a week and won't be viable now anyway.

[petal]

7 days plus they are no good. can you take a look on ebay and see if there is one? mind you I won't be getting any more 2nd hand incubators after my recent experience!!!

[RichmondHens]

Well I have ended up with 4 light sussex - one tried but failed to get out and the other two died in the egg several days earlier (my guess by the look of them). 6 Cream Legbars due next week. Have also just set 6 more cream legbars and 6 exchequer leghorn so fingers crossed.

[petal]

slow start to the season then. I have been looking at fiem mayo incubators today. It would pay for itself with the first batch of chicks sold......

[Hilary B]

Stored in near ideal conditions eggs may remain hatchable for 2 weeks, but there WILL be a higher failure rate than with fresher ones.

[RichmondHens]

slow start to the season then. I have been looking at fiem mayo incubators today. It would pay for itself with the first batch of chicks sold......

I'm only hatching for myself. The LS hatch was purely to get a couple of pullets to lay through the winter so if I'm lucky I should have two out of the four hatched. I find it really difficult to sell birds on to strangers - after all the effort of getting them to the POL stage I need to know that they are going to someone who will continue to look after them well. I'm really very fussy!

[petal]

I know what you mean, I have turned many customers away - but i also have customers returning, which is a good sign.