Gladish wife was very fond of Leghorn Chickens and it was probably her interest and persuasiveness that directed the company to diversify and start manufacturing redwood incubators in 1905. Gladish, the inventions and product they made where greatly accepted in the bee industry. The business started to grow and in 1888, with financial help from James E. Starting off in a small 14’ x 20’ shop with one foot powered saw, he began manufacturing beehives for a local farmer. Leahy headed west, landing in Higginsville to make his home with a new bride. Having the opportunity to visit many different countries gave him a diverse education. For the next 11 years he followed his fathers love for the sea, starting out being a cabin boy. Leahy in 1867, being raised in New York on the shores of the Atlantic, was a ten year old boy who had earlier lost his mother and now h ad to deal with loosing his sea captain father to drowning. On his web site you can down load the original operator’s manual for the incubator. I also found that Brad Legg of Legg Peafowl Farm located in Kansas City, Mo uses the model 1200 exclusively because of the high hatch rate the 14 incubators give him. She has provided me with newspaper articles photo’s and company pamphlets to assist me in writing this article. ![]() Here I linked up with the Higginsville Historical Society and Ms Loberta “Bobbie” Runge. My research travels directed me towards the “Show Me State – Missouri”, specifically Higginsville where the company was headquartered. Words like that only added fuel towards my desire to learn more about the company. To learn more about this company, my journey directed me to a man in Minnesota that restores incubators, he called these units the “Cadillac of Incubators” and “nothing on the market today is built so well”. Some of these people are using them as coffee tables and don’t know what they have or how to use them. I’ve heard where people have found them in old barns, at auctions and family hand me downs. What incubator manufactured today will last 40 plus years and still produce high incubation rates? This company made thousands of these incubators and many are still in use today. Nothing on today’s incubator market matches the craftsmanship, design and construction that these units have. I had never owned an incubator and being a backyard cabinet maker, I decided to bring new life to this unit by restoring it. ![]() I also went to craigslist, which caused me more excitement than a room filled with helium party balloons when I found and purchased a Leahy Favorite Incubator Model 1200. My journey of learning raised my interest in incubators and the components used in manufacturing them. My search has found two valuable resource of gaining knowledge on raising poultry the magazine Backyard Poultry and the website: backyardchickens forum. The Past to the Present – Incubators By: Kevin RothĪs many of us have found the hobby of raising backyard chickens, certain research has to be done before one starts out.
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