Unsecure chicken perches

[midori]

 

I keep ans breed snakes and was wondering if I could incubate hens eggs in a similar way to reptile eggs, using a home made incubator, if I turned then manually and got the temperature/humidity right? We have just over 2 months summer holiday here and I thought it would be a nice 'project' for my older two children (OK, and me, of course!) and that way I could do it without spending too much money. Also, I'd quite like a couple of cream legbars, so hopefully I would end up with a couple of hens.

 

So, the set up I would use would be a polybox as the 'shell' for the incubator, with heatmat on a thermostat as the heat source, which is infra-red, at the bottom, then the eggs set up in a tub on a rack so they are not touching the heat source.

 

Does that sound like it might work? (I am hoping I don't sound too ridiculous!)

[Egluntyne]

I daresay it would work, but you will need to turn the eggs regularly ( put a cross on the so you know which side is 'up') and keep notes, for if your memory is anything like mine ......

 

Some useful advice **here**