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We bought ours through the mail as day old chicks and 
raised 26 of them in our guest bathtub on cheap beach 
towels (keeps them from mistaking bedding for food) with a 
light for warmth. However, we bought them in July, and by 
the time we'd backed the light off to 75 degrees, it was 
about 100 degrees in the coop. So we had to aircondition 
the coop!  We learned that if you live in a hot climate 
you need to order your birds earlier. Since we don't eat 
the birds, just their eggs, it made sense for us not to 
invest in an incubator. We now hope to breed our own and 
let the broody hens rear the chicks when we need 
more.--Sage

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:36 -0800 (PST)
 bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> So the incubator cost you.....in rent ? ... or in 
> electricity?
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