Incubators

Bought my first small incubator in the fall of 1968 when I was ten years old. It came with several free bobwhite quail eggs. I believe only three of the quail made it to maturity. Spent the whole summer catching fireflies to purchase my incubator. A man from the Sigma chemical company in St Louis talked me into catching fireflies and mailing them to him for medical research. It was some of the hardest money I have ever earned. No telling how many miles I ran catching those bugs. When I was eleven dad helped me build a 50 egg incubator for a cub scout project. I think that incubator hatched only fifty percent of the eggs I put into it. A few years later I got a sportsman incubator for my birthday. Soon our farm was covered in chickens because I keep the incubator running at full capacity all year long. We lived next to a highway and it wasnt long before my chickens migrated across the road. Cars and trucks would slow down to avoid the chickens. Only a few people hit chickens in the years we lived there. Tourists from all over the country would stop by and look at my many chicken breeds. I got to selling lots of chickens every week. After we moved a mile west off the highway it was nearly impossible to sell them so I had to advertise. You know in business location is everything. Later on I got plenty of business through word of mouth and by keeping in contact with lots of universities who offered poultry science. Currently I have the german Grumbach incubators which work real good. Over the years I have probably used every brand of incubator there is, because people often swap me things for chickens. I dont have a favorite incubator because all of them work well.