There are two types of non-commercial incubators, still air and forced air. I wasn’t sure if I would use it enough to justify the price of one that offered the features I wanted, but I was sure that if I were to have one, it would have a fan on it. (The poor hen almost lost her mind one moring when “her babies” wading into the nearby stream like they weren’t afraid of water.) I’ve also used a bantam hen, a very small breed of chicken, to incubate quail eggs before I had an incubator. When I was a kid, we had a broody hen that hatched out a dozen duck eggs. I’ve heard of folks using crock pots, electric skillets, and my favorite method, an inter-species surrogate mother – in this case a bird used to hatch another species eggs. The truth came out almost immediately, but I would have probably let the eggs get incubated just to see the faces of the snake guys when birds popped out □Īlmost anything with a constant heat source that can maintain a certain temperature range can act as an incubator. Since I am on the topic of quail eggs, incubators, and snakes…this reminds me of a funny story involving quail eggs placed as though some rare-ish snake had laid them. Incubators are merely simulated mothers, offering the proper amount of heat and humidity to cause a fertile egg to develop into a baby bird, and to some extent reptiles also (though I PROMISE to never get into snake farming). Today we talk about incubators, hows and whys, commercial and DIY options, how I made mine, and the results I’ve had with it. Day two in Quail Week in celebration of finally getting my quail setup mostly organized, and at least moving forward.
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