Getting the most from low cost incubators

I was at a Flea Market in Cabool MO, recently and I noticed quite a lot of egg incubators for sale. Most of them were quite cheap.

I started doing some research into these low buck devices, and found that the temperature regulation is all over the scale. So I was doing more research, it seems that the manufacturer recommends the incubator be kept in a temperature stable room. This is to keep the regulation of the incubator steady. Makes sense. But how many people (that are off-gridders, real homesteaders, small holders) have such a space?

Then the idea of the day slammed me like a WWE smack down, the thing to do is to place the incubator in the brooder. Everyone that has an incubator has a brooder, man talk about so simple, I wonder how many hundreds of dozens of eggs were ruined.

So to try the idea, I enlisted the aid of friends across the country. I told them my thoughts, and off we were on the experiment. I'm very happy to report that there was a nominal lost of eggs to temperature fluctuation, and that was due to a power outage.

So if you have or can get a low cost incubator, set it in your brooder, and start your eggs. 3-4 weeks you should be hatching chicks.

Just remember to run the incubator long enough to get the temp where it needs to be and then stabilized.

So happy hatching

Blake Holliday

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