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Hoping for some help from @Lacrystol. I have 14 call duck eggs in my Brinsea 20. Temp is set at 99.5 and humidity was at 50% until lockdown, then bumped to 65. I candled at lockdown and there were 3 that had stopped at some point. Day 26 was 5/16 and we are at 5/20 now. 4 hatched...

I wanted to add fan to my ancient still air Hovabator from about 20+ years old. I decided I would also convert it to a picture window one at the same time. The fan is completely independent and has it's own cord so I am good on that, but need help with reconnecting everything for the heat I...

I am trying to figure out how you would connect a water supply to these. Has anyone used this type of nipples?

I have an older Hovabator incubator from before the new style update. It is square and does not have a model number on it. I have the original instructions and it's just called a "Hova-Bator Incubator: Thermal Air Flow Model. They were printed in 1993. It is a still air one with a wafer...

I have a Farm Innovators incubator with a circulating fan that I have used a bout 4 times with pretty good success (70-80% hatch rate). It has only 2 small viewing windows to observe the hatch and I am wondering about modifying it to have a window the size on the entire top. Has anyone done...

I have a young black Cochin-type pullet that was hatched in 5/2013. She surprised me this morning by laying her first egg. I was surprised because, of all of my pullets, she is the one that looks the least ready to lay. She has always had a dark comb/wattles and they are pretty small right...

I have a few pullets that all hatched out around April or May. They were from eggs given to me by a friend and hatched in an incubator. She has a few banties and just collected some misc eggs for me. One of the eggs that hatched is a banty and had been much smaller (as expected) than the...

I have 12 youngsters under a broody. 6 are about 5 weeks and the other 6 a week behind. I see a lot of "mock fighting" between some of the older ones and even a few of the younger ones. Do all chicks do this? Is itjust part of them establishing thier place in the flock or can I be resoonable...

I have a broody hen raising 12 chicks...six of them are 3 weeks old and six are 2 weeks old. They are all doing well and are separated in a broody coop within the big chicken yard. I try to let the other 3 adult hens out into the backyard at least evey few days so the broody hen can take the...

I have a broody hen with eggs due to hatch this weekend. She has 6 under her and I have another 5 in the incubator (just in case one or the other does work out well). I also have 6 chicks that hatched last weekend. The hen is currently in an elevated nest box in the rgular coop. The chicks would...

I ordered what was supposed to be Black Copper Marans hatching eggs, but was disappointed in how light the eggs were when I received them. I emailed the seller and told her I had my doubts as to the breed because the eggs were no darker than my own sex-link hens brown eggs. She assured me...

I had a miserable hatch first time around using thermometer & hygrometer provided with my foam incubator. 3 of 6 fertile eggs died early on, 2 about 1/2 way thru and one developed fully but never pipped. This time I bought a hygrometer designed for hatching and found my settings were way off...

Well...the hen I lost last week to what I thought was a skunk (head and only leg only missing, strong smell of skunk...) appears to have been killed by a raccoon. We have been locking the girls in the coop at night and setting up a trap for the predator inside the chicken yard. We caught a...

I have 2 light Brahmas and one Americauana that are 16 weeks yesterday. I also have some Austrolorps that are 14 weeks and some Buff Orphingtons that are about 13 weeks. Their comb's are still pretty small and only a little pink. We are now in early November and the days are getting much...

I need help determingin whether this bird is a hen or rooster. It is an Americauna and is about 3 months old. I started thingking rooster when is was about 5 weeks because of the posture. It seems to more upright. The it started looking like a hen after all when it was about 9-10nweeks, nut...

Hello everyone! I am Born again chicken owner...meaning I had them for about 10 years, but left them behind with the new owners about 15 years ago. I just picked up 2 light Brahmas and 2 Americanas. I will be getting 3 Buff Orphingtons this weekend. The one I have are about a week old (I...