From Eggs to Flight: Upgrading my incubator

Hi, my dear friends!

I don’t know what kind of eclipse visited my mind that I decided to hatch chicks in an incubator. Needless to say, in principle, I do not breed poultry and those birds that live with me have the status of pets.

Nevertheless, from time to time I find myself in strange Facebook groups like "Chickens are our hobby" and I understand that for some reason I ordered hatching eggs ....🫣

My winter attempt at egg incubation failed miserably due to a blackout. Of course, it was already an absolute adventure in such conditions. But I have since purchased an incubator that has battery backup. So a week ago I put 30 pheasant eggs in there. In addition, my Chinese silk hens began to lay and I also put their eggs in the incubator. In the end, two of my friends dream of such chickens and I can easily find a family for chicks.

But incubation is not so easy. In addition to maintaining a certain temperature and humidity, eggs need to be turned several times a day. But my incubator was without the necessary mechanism and I did it manually. But for this, I have to open the incubator, and this violates the temperature regime. Well, ok, I said and ordered a special mechanism for my incubator. Today I received it in the mail, brought it home, opened it and froze: it was all in pieces! a do-it-yourself kit!

I hate reading instructions! But here I simply had no options .... Having spent about 40 minutes, I collected everything ... except for connecting to the battery ... as for electricity, I don’t know anything at all ...

But even so, I solved half the problem, because now I do not need to turn over each egg, they all turn over together, being in special cells. So far I'm doing it manually but I'm not losing hope that I can find someone who can connect auto-flip.