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Was wondering whatever happened with this batch? We bought a goat today and the owner gave us a dozen freshly laid Americana eggs, and I want to incubate them, but she washed them. I don't know how...if it was just water or more? I've had good success with our homemade incubator and wanted to...

Hi! It's been a long time since I've posted on here, and probably just as long since I hatched any eggs. I'm on day 5 of incubation. I think I remember reading a long time ago about the eggs naturally producing their own temperature spike on one of the later days??? Did I dream this? I can't...

Chickie is still doing good and still wearing his shell bit belt...looks like he's got his feathers slicked down with hair gel...it's the 80s style. Can you give a chick a bath?

Not that I'm an old hat at this or anything...only my third batch, but I have never seen anything like this. That yellow gunk was so thoroughly encrusted on the bottom of his zip that there was NO WAY he was going to chisel thru it all and rip out all his fuzz to get out. So I helped him with...

UPDATE! So I went to get out the dry chicks and pull out the shells and quickly snatched up the egg w/ the gunk....IT MOVED AND CHEEPED! I quickly put it back and then with a straw dripped warm water around it's zip to loosen it up. It's like it's come back to life! It's been cheeping and...

I saw somewhere online someone filled a plastic egg or blown out egg with hair gel and put the probe in that, but I kinda wondered if the evaporating hair gel might not be good for the eggs. Hmmmm....don't know. I use a water wiggler, but I'm not sure that water has the same thermal properties...

That just shows to go ya...it doesn't matter how hard we work to keep the temp perfect and the humidity perfect, some are just going to make it and some just aren't. I can quit beating myself up! Congratulations on your little tuffie!

Last night before I went to bed, one chick had nearly completely zipped. This morning it isn't moving at all and I think it died before kicking out. There is a yellowish bit of goo coming out of the bottom of the zip. Did I have the rotten luck of another chick pipping it's yolk??? Does this...

I have never found them at Walmart (and I've looked), but our Deals dollar store has them for $1. There was a post on here yesterday about how to make your own out of ziplock baggies and rubberbands.

That's what I did....the humidity is so high in my bator that the window is fogged up, so, I figured it wouldn't hurt. Plus, since it's homemade, it's deep and holds the heat and humidity when you open it. Neither dropped at all in the time it took me to get them out. They're happily napping...

I have 5 hatched out chicks in the bator. The earliest one hatched 8-10 hrs. ago and the latest hatched 1 hr ago. Other eggs pipping. Humidity at 82%. The dry ones are panting! Are they too hot, should I get them out to the brooder? Do I risk the rest of the hatch??? Help! OH- and it's a...

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Well, it's aggravating and discouraging, because I did everything just right for this batch (you should see my notes). But we only got 4 that hatched on their own. I waited until they were completely dry and getting hungry before I popped the incubator open. At that point the little struggler...

I asked the same question yesterday, so I'll pass along what someone else told me: you could candle them and listen for cheeping now if you want. But leave them until day 24 or 25 before you toss. I'm tossing tomorrow. Bummer.

I can see thru one little spot where the water ran down...It's like looking thru a peephole. Got another speckled Sussex! Too stinking cute!

Good idea if I ever do this again, but I'm too paranoid to open it up now. Any other ideas?

Seriously!! Anyone?? I hear hatching going on! And a LOT of cheeping!

Great idea! I poked holes in two of them and finally got so sick of going back and forth to the dollar store that I bought 5 Wish I'd thought of this!

Yeah! I got to watch my first egg out of this batch pop the shell off! A beautiful little speckled Sussex! Within 5 minutes, my window on my homemade bator completely fogged up and I have 7 or more others pipping! I can't SEE! It's killing me!! I pulled both plugs but that doesn't seem to...

OK, so I really, really suck at this. After two batches with a total start of 6 dozen eggs, I have 8 chicks. My question is this: It is the beginning of day 23 and on day 18 I had 45 viable eggs. On day 20, two chicks hatched and one other pipped. Day 21, two more hatched and the pipped one...