My dad built an incubator (he’s a welder) when I was a kid for the science fair. We had to monitor the humidity and temp and turn manually. A few chicks hatched and brought them in for our display and we obviously won first place 😂
Good afternoon my friend, it's afternoon my time in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Once again I'll say that I just love how you get all your children involved in helping on the farm. You guys are amazing parents 💝
My dad had an Incubator that looked something like your old Incubator, that was back in the 1940s and 1950s.....Thanks y'all = GOD BLESS Old F-4 pilot Shoe🇺🇸
When I hatched out eggs 20 years ago, the incubator was just a Styrofoam box with a plastic lid on top and some kind of a heating element and a plastic floor. That's how we bought it and it worked great.
i owned one of those, bought in 60's. hatched harold duck. harold ruled the neighborhood for about 10 years till he was run over. bought the incubator from sears farming catalog. I still remember having this working on my bedroom dresser.
Wow! I had the exact same metal incubator back in the 70s, and hatched out so many duck eggs. I’m in my 70’s now and sure got a kick from seeing this. Keep up the good work!
Brings back old memories . Had the same incubator 50 years ago . Mine didn’t have a circulation fan , yours must have been added . Hatched 2000 or more bobwhite quail with it . The first incubator you showed was really an incubator the heating was meant to be provided by convection from another heat producing source , now that one is old , grandfather hatched turkeys with them .
Serama eggs are the hardest eggs I've tried hatching! They are soooo temperamental. They hatch at 19 days usually. I set them a couple degrees less than full sized eggs and you have to keep the humidity pretty steady. I've had the nest luck with a broody hen
Cleaning up and out my parents basement and discovered my old Easy bake oven from the 60's. I put in a new light bulb and it still works! Oh those people who made things back then had to have had a lot of pride in whatever they created to make them last a very long time. Who knew it would last for 3 generations and still be a delight to some little bakers in the making, or bird farmers in your case.
I made a home made incubator in the later 80s from a styrofoam cooler and it worked great. A cut out some of the top and taped a thick weather plastic top and bottom of the top to see in. had a small lamp with a 25 watt bulb for heat cutting a place on the side of the cooler to fit it. on the bottom I put some rocks then a piece of hardware cloth over them so I could put water in. then some foil to adjust the temperature. put some wholes in it. I kept it in a large closet kept the door shut as this helped keep a more steady temp, I was lucky and it kept a steady temp with the apartment having controlled heating, I hatched some quail eggs, and chicken eggs in it. 3 quail eggs hatched out of a dozen, all three chicken eggs, I had some duck eggs that died in the shell when they should have hatched, but fully developed, that was a bummer If only we had internet back then. But was a lot of fun hatching the quail and chickens.
When i was a child, we hatched eggs in a cardboard box with a lamp that the light part set in a u shape cut we made in one upper side of the box and put a towel over. We hand turned the eggs and pretty much had a 98 percent hatch rate. We sold those chicks. The ones we let the hens hatch were for our personal use and eggs that we ate and sold. We raised Bantams and Rhode Island reds with no fail. Love the galvanized egg hatcher. My grandmother got one later on but did not keep it for long. There was nothing wrong with it. It worked awesome, she just did not have the permanent space for it and preferred the chickens to hatch them. Not sure what she did it as we did not have it. We preferred the box as it was successful lol.
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The last one is a Erminette. Probably the rooster and hens in the eggs you received were Erminettes and not splash. When you mate two erminattes you produce black, white and erminattes but when you mate two splash all the chicks are splash.
That old incubator is very cool. I think the problem was egg fertility and poor packing, not the incubator. Your Americanas are a mixed bag. They may in fact be Easter eggers. The blue one that fought with the Cemani cockerel is definitely a cockerel itself, and I think one or two of the others are males as well. The white one and the white one with black spots are both pullets. Neither is splash. White coloring with black spots happens when you are dealing with the Dominant White color gene. California White chickens and Erminettes have the same coloring. Splash is a double dose of the blue dilution gene, and is generally a pale blue color with some darker blue areas mixed in. FYI.
I also didn't get a good hatch with my Serama eggs I bought from Ebay. 4 were not fertile, 1 Pipped but nothing more, and the 1 that Hatched was solid white... But He has no white on him now. He's Black, Orange with some Teal & purple shimmer. The only thing with Serama's is they can't be kept Outside in temperatures below 45... 40 at the lowest temps. Needless to say, my Serama Identifies as a Parrot & stays In my House. lol.
That was quite interesting seeing the old one function well enough. I think I would only have put a few less valuable eggs in there to try it. But the fact you were getting no-go's from the modern incubator was encouraging ; in that the problem was with the eggs, not the incubator. The mottled chicken is VERY beautiful. You need about 10 to twenty more.👌
I love you guys! Yes another video from my favorite channel on you tube. You guys always make me smile with gratitude. God bless you and your beautiful family. Your the best!
I hope you try the tiny chickens again. THEY are such characters! Goghillfarms had a couple at one time. their rooster was solid white. They have such big personalities!
Your biggest mistake was to keep opening the incubator lid. Instead of opening the lid and turning the eggs by hand, you could have gotten more hatches if you had put something under the incubator to raise one side. After 4 hours, you could have put it on the other side of the incubator. If you were afraid of the eggs breaking while turning, you could have either filled the incubator completely or made a support for the eggs so that the eggs would not be damaged when you lifted the incubator. Still, it was good that you were able to get hatches after all that trouble.
Oh my god! One of the times I’ve been early! I’m so excited for this video! I lost a whole bunch of chickens earlier this year to raccoons, and these videos honestly somehow make me feel better
If you ever have trouble getting rid of your button quail eggs check out your local pet store. ... Or someone that breeds snakes or lizards. Certain snakes and lizards eat button quail eggs.,... And the only place you can find to buy them are in Asian markets.
I was going to say the same thing. Or freeze them in a air tight freezer bag then sell on line. I was also thinking he could dehydrate them and make them for people that feed their dogs raw dog food as treats.
I know that. I was just talking in general. Typically breeders carry the variety or blue cock over bbs hens. Unless he knew 100% they were ONLY splash pen.
We had an incubator in the 80's..and it was very old when we had it 😂.. that could hold over 50 eggs ... we used to draw a moon in pencil on the eggs so we knew which ones we turned or not
The plug says early 60's maybe even mid to late 50's! 😊 check out the plug on line it should have either a name or number on it. The cord looks original. If it is you can date it. Also thats the old tin. That its made out of. We know a tin smith who said the formula for making tin was changed. That may help you date it too.
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Ah those ameraucana eggs had a dominant white hen or rooster in the mix. That's how you ended up with an ermine and a white. It was for sure not BBS as you wouldn't have gotten ermine and all white. I love ermine ameraucanas. Sorry no splash but ermines look like cooler splashes.
