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Finally,I have hatching chicks. My $20.00 homemade incubator with a fan is working great. I bought 6 Buff Orpington eggs from Iowa and so far 4 have hatched. Every 2 hours I get another little one. Since shipped eggs can be hard to hatch I'm thankfull that I am at 75%. It's a good day.

Okay, I may be new to chickens but I've had enough experience with many other animal species to know a dead one from a live one. That being said, I have this really great military flashlight that zooms.That's what I use to look into the window of the incubator. I didn't open it at all until the...

The ones that pipped were blue and cold just that fast. I'd rather not say the brand name of the incubator just to forgo any drama. It's gone and I'm not going to rely on a digital read out again. What I'm wondering about is my Buff Orpington rooster to big for my Rhode Island Red hens?

Some pipped the shell, others were literally rolling around in the shell in the incubator. They were in working egg turner and humidity readings were 50 from day 1-18, 64 from day 19-22. According to the book I have this was acceptable levels. One minute they were alive and trying to come out, I...

Being new to chickens I decided to incubate my own eggs. I went to the local feed store and bought a still air incubator with egg turner and egg candler.I followed the directions and put 16 eggs in the incubator.26 days later and no chicks. Figured maybe the rooster wasn't fertile due to being 5...

I can't seem to find where you write a post in the app so I'm doing it here. I have a chicken who out of the blue can't stand on her own. Feed is 18 % protein whole grain, given calcium every other day. Also all the other hens havebbasically stopped laying. If I do get an egg it's very small...

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Hello from Wellsville NY. I finally took the plunge and bought 6 Bantam Buff Orpanington from the feed store. I love the temperament of these chickens. Problem is they were straight run. I think every one of them are roos. What do yall think?