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Surprise surprise! three chicks coming out after only one week. (They must have been sat on by a chicken for a couple of weeks.) We are in a quandary now of trying to get our humidity up. The one that is fully out seems ok, though has to put up with a slow moving tray. I am worried about...

Curious as to the eating and drinking volume of 5 chicks in the first 2.5 days in the brooder. Here is a picture of the water and feed dishes. You can see most of the feed bottle is empty. Maybe 75% of the water bottle is emty. One chick did not eat or drink for the first day, but it...

We had 5 chicks hatch. #5 hatched ~20 hours ago, and is smaller and weak. It prefers to lay down. It can move around, with poor balance. It can be loud. I also found #5 laying on its back. The other chicks (at most a day older), are running around, drinking and eating. After reading...

We are into the hatching portion. we stopped turning the eggs at the end of day 18. bumped up the humidity from ~35 to 60%. I see some breaks in the shells, though not much. I can hear the birds, and sometimes see the eggs move. This all started last night. Should they be making...

I built an incubator and am in day 6 of the incubation. I put in a couple of secondary temeprature sensors and, as you might guess, I am getting different readings. The first is the controls sensor, which is a DHT22. The second is a nice brass dial-face outdoor weather thermometer The...

I have an incubator I built that regulates the temperature to 99.5 (though not sure of the sensor accuracy). I have some water reservoirs and can keep humidity anywhere between 38% and 52% (same unknown on accuracy). I could probably go lower on humidity if I let the water run dry, and...

I am building an incubator and am using a ladder tray that will slide back and forth about 4 inches to turn the eggs. The ladder is made of wood. I am looking for a recommendation on a motor to move it back and forth. What type of torque is needed? Has anyone used stepper motors? No...