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Author Topic: Bargain Price Octagon 20 with Autoturning from Screwfix  (Read 10325 times)

NicandChic

  • Joined Oct 2013
Re: Bargain Price Octagon 20 with Autoturning from Screwfix
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2015, 06:33:29 pm »
Woo! They are expensive! My wee cheapy was £30 I can fit 12 eggs (light Sussex) in (11 hatched) it is a faff having to turn them 3x a day though!

Edited to add http://www.screwfix.com/p/ovaview-f180-egg-candling-lamp/8329f  :o £26.99!!! I found one of these in one of the barns - previous owners left it! And it's rubbish compared to my old torch!!....wonder if I can sell it on eBay  :-J
« Last Edit: April 23, 2015, 06:37:54 pm by NicandChic »

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: Bargain Price Octagon 20 with Autoturning from Screwfix
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2015, 10:28:43 pm »
before I rush off to buy one can you guys please tell me whether I will actually manage to hatch any eggs? ive only had my own hens for 5 months and Ive never hatched any. Some of you told me I ought to move towards pure breeds and I now have 2 Cream Legbars along with my original 6 hybrids. Id love to hatch some more Legbars and a few Wyandottes but when I read the threads about hatching it looks so so complicated.
I don't want to invest £140 in an incubator that just sits in an outbuilding gathering dust.
Is it do-able for a novice?

But you do have a cockerel as well I guess?

Kimbo

  • Joined Feb 2015
  • Anglezarke, Lancashire
Re: Bargain Price Octagon 20 with Autoturning from Screwfix
« Reply #17 on: April 24, 2015, 08:48:03 am »
Course not!  :eyelashes: 
Is it time to retire yet?

devonlady

  • Joined Aug 2014
Re: Bargain Price Octagon 20 with Autoturning from Screwfix
« Reply #18 on: April 24, 2015, 09:01:34 am »
I shouldn't have read this. I am an incubator addict!!

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: Bargain Price Octagon 20 with Autoturning from Screwfix
« Reply #19 on: April 24, 2015, 09:57:35 am »
Quite right Kimbo. They're nothing but trouble  ;D .
"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." -Terry Pratchett

Kimbo

  • Joined Feb 2015
  • Anglezarke, Lancashire
Re: Bargain Price Octagon 20 with Autoturning from Screwfix
« Reply #20 on: April 25, 2015, 06:47:59 pm »
mine arrived today at 10am as I was strimming the grass verges! Then 2 hours later I got a text from Screwfix saying my box would be delivered between 1-43pm and 2-43 pm! How precise ( but wrong) was that?  ::)

Anyway Ive set everything up to try it out and its all good. the instructions are a bit mind-blowing but, hey, that's what you guys are for  :P  ;)
Ive ordered 6 Blue Laced Wyandotte and 6 Cream Legbar eggs off t'Internet, just to get going and give it a try. Lets see eh?
Is it time to retire yet?

Stereo

  • Joined Aug 2012
Re: Bargain Price Octagon 20 with Autoturning from Screwfix
« Reply #21 on: April 25, 2015, 07:29:02 pm »
Let us know how you get on. Have a look at my dry hatching experiment thread.

Kimbo

  • Joined Feb 2015
  • Anglezarke, Lancashire
Re: Bargain Price Octagon 20 with Autoturning from Screwfix
« Reply #22 on: April 25, 2015, 07:46:19 pm »
HaHa!! Stereo it was your dry hatching thread that almost made me forget about the whole thing! Talk about complicated?
But all I can do is try. Im very very small-scale and Im thinking that as a general approach the less fiddling I do the better.
We shall see XX
Is it time to retire yet?

Stereo

  • Joined Aug 2012
Re: Bargain Price Octagon 20 with Autoturning from Screwfix
« Reply #23 on: April 26, 2015, 10:10:12 am »
Oops, sorry.  ;D

 

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