Today I set my first batch of eggs to hatch in the incubator. I'm using a Petiatric Brooder  with a Little Giant automatic turner.

The brooder I've had for years. We used it to keep our baby parrots in when we were raising parrots. We never had to incubate parrot eggs so we didn't have an egg turner....although I thought I had one when I bought this unit used from my friend Pam in Broken Arrow. But, as I recall, the last time I saw it I think was in the building in Tulsa at Miranda's house and that was 11 years ago. So, I decided it would be easier to just buy a new one from Amazon.

We didn't have enough eggs to fill the turner so we decided to buy a couple dozen. I found a fellow in Garfield, AR (about an hour away) so Victor and I had an adventure to go pick up two dozen eggs. The eggs come from his Barred Rocks and Rhode Island Reds. From those, you can also get Black sex-linked.
I filled in with 11 Copper Maran eggs, 4 Olive Egger eggs and 2 Serama eggs, which may or may not be fertile.

My Serama eggs came from my proven (that is what we called an experienced parrot hen) Serama hen covered by a young frizzle Serama rooster we got recently. We're keeping our fingers crossed that they'll be fertile.

Later this afternoon after I set the eggs up in the turner, I found another Serama egg. So, I have it balanced between rows in the turner. I've been watching it since I put it in there and it seems to be rocking ok. We'll see. I hope it'll work out.