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The Official Ameraucana Forum => Housing, Health & Hatching => Topic started by: John W Blehm on January 31, 2019, 10:27:34 AM
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I converted some old slides to digital and came across these photos of the first cabinet incubator I built, back in the 80s as I recall. This was built using redwood from an old kerosene incubator I bought at an auction, a clothes dryer heating element, a squirrel cage fan and automatic turner, with Rainbo bread trays to put the eggs on. It wasn't great, but I hatched chicks with it.
In one photo my arm is on an old Leahy incubator that I used as a hatcher. Above it is a GQF 1205. I bought it from Victor Hakes at local Midwest Poultry Roundup show in Bay City, Michigan.
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Who is that kid in the last photo? ;D And what were all those brown eggs from that you were hatching at the time? :o
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The cream to brown colored eggs are from pheasants. My brother, Mark, was big into pheasants and I hatched them for him in the early years. I also advertised "custom hatching" and had a few local customers bring eggs to me.