✅ SOLVED Feel like I’ve seen this before

[Older The Better]

Found on an old barn site, not sure when it was torn down but there’s no trace of it on a 1950 aerial view. To my knowledge it was a field barn and there wasn’t a house in the area. That said my mind keeps going to part of a toy. I thought maybe a wheel but the pins are off set and the rings on either side aren’t centered either… still I feel like I’ve seen one before somewhere

 

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[invent4hir]

Chicken nest heating element(?)

 

[The Rebel]

Looks like it will expand and contract, does it?

 

[ticndig]

used in older poultry incubators.

 

[Older The Better]

Looks like you guys got it. That’s interesting. Always thought that it was a solo barn in a field. No evidence of power, or a house. To have chickens and an incubator I would assume you need power and want to keep them close to home… maybe there’s a house hiding out there somewhere
Thanks for the id

 

[pepperj]

Looks like you guys got it. That’s interesting. Always thought that it was a solo barn in a field. No evidence of power, or a house. To have chickens and an incubator I would assume you need power and want to keep them close to home… maybe there’s a house hiding out there somewhere
Thanks for the id

It seems that a broody hen just knows what temperature those eggs should be kept at.

Cool recovery and ID.