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Hi BYC! I have had this chick in the Incubator for a couple days to dry and fluff, but he/she has failed to do so. Now he/she seems to be getting progressively weaker. How can I help him/her? I also tried to give the chick some water thinking it might help, but now I fear it may be choking...

Hi BYC! I have had this chick in the Incubator for a couple days to dry and fluff, but he/she has failed to do so. Now he/she seems to be getting progressively weaker. How can I help him/her?

I have a bantam chick which has been in the incubator for about two days now trying to dry off and gain fluff. However, the end result has been a chick with a dried feather mess, and I am unsure if it is fit for a brooder transfer. As I am concerned for its well-being, I am wondering if there is...

Hello BYC! I am wondering if it would safe to transport chicks which are currently in the process of drying to a new location about twenty minutes away. I would like to have a better watch on them and am concerned that one of the chicks is approaching the 72-hour mark and will need food and...

Hi BYC! This weekend my eggs were set to hatch, but unfortunately I was away for day 21 and much of day 22. When I returned, many chicks had successfully hatched, but there remained two eggs as such which have obviously pipped, but made no further progress. I am not sure when this took place...

Hello BYC members. It is currently midway through day 19 of incubation with an assortment of mixed eggs I received through postage. Half of the eggs are in a Brinsea Mini Advance Incubator, whilst the others reside in an incuview. For some reason unbeknownst to me, I neglected to remove the egg...

Hi there! I just recently bought myself a Brinsea mini advance and was hoping to try and get a hatch out of yet. However I don't really have another thermometer to use in it. I am wondering if anyone knows how accurate the digital readout temperature is, and if it is accurate enough to hatch...

So today is day 23 of incubation, and I have three unhatched. So far I have had two chicks hatch, while the other eggs that appeared viable seem to be doing nothing. I do not hear any peeping from the incubator, and although I don't have a viewing window (I know, it was a mistake), I didn't see...

So I guess I am not the best with patience, and I have taken a couple peeks in my incubator today. The reason for that being that I don't have a single viewing port and I don't like not knowing what is happening in the incubator. I confirmed that 2 out of 5 eggs have hatched and when I peeked...

Hello, so I have some chicks that have hatched and have been in the incubator for quite some time now. Unfortunatel, I no longer have a brooder with me. I plan on making a brooder later today, but in the meantime I have this. Will this be efficient for the chicks, at least temporarily or should...

Alright so I know I have at least one chick hatched in the incubator, as he continues to cheap and run around. However I foolishly never built a window in my incubator so i cannot tell if there is more. I am wondering if I can safely open the incubator to see how they are doing without doing any...

Hello! Over the past few weeks or maybe even months, I have encountered a problem with my hens. This would be that four of them have stopped laying completely. On the other hand two of my hens continue to lay to the best of there abilities (producing about one every other day). The hens are only...

I would like to purchase an incubator that is plastic (so animals don't break it) and would like it to also come with an automatic turning system. If you have an incubator for sale like this, please leave a reply to this thread about it or message me. Thanks!

Hello BYC community. Last month I constructed my own incubator from a plastic tote and since then I put five eggs in it to test the hatching capabilities of it. However, during the incubation process, there were temperature fluctuations, some being high and others low. On day 14 I candles and...

Hello BYC, I just decided to try and build and incubator for the fun of it and thought I would update everyone on this site about it, in case they are interested. This homemade incubator isn't exactly high tech or anything, but I thought since I already had some materials to experiment with...

So, as many of you most likely know, broody hens are considered the most natural and efficient source of incubation (since they are obviously meant to hatch their own eggs). Unfortunately, I had never experienced a broody hen so I had no experience to compare with opinions and facts. This was...

Hello BYC community! Since Christmas is coming around the corner fairly quick here I have been thinking about getting a new incubator. My last incubator I had was amazing (Hovabator 1602N), but it sadly met its sad demise after my cats discovered styrofoam is fun to rip apart. For my new...

Hi Backyard Chicken people, i usually leave my eggs outside in a bucket so i can do other chores and bring them in later. Will these eggs get botulism from sitting outside hours in hot sun? If so is there any way i can tell? Thanks in advance!

Hello, I have a hen that went broody but only hatched one chick. In the meantime I thought I should incubate some so she could have more. I took a couple eggs and hatched one chick. By the time the chick was hatched the other chick was a couple weeks old. I thought I would just try and plunk the...

Hello I was just wondering why my broody hen hasn't hatched any chicks yet. One day I came across a pipped one and decided to let the broody hen continue to hatch it but when I came back a couple days later there was no chicks or sign of hatching. Its been way more than 21 days and when I...