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Broodies ALWAYS surprise me, we kind of impose our own interpretation of good parenting on them and are often wrong. My broody hatched hers last week, all through setting she would leave the nest, sometimes long enough to let the eggs go nearly stone cold, i felt sure she would have a low hatch...

Also, if this is a home made incubator does it have ventilation? Where are you in the world? You havent mentioned humidity, if you are somewhere dry and arid you will need to add water as there will be very little humidity in the air.

Brahma are possibly the slowest chicken to mature, i hatched some and the boys didnt start crowing till nearly 18 months and the hens didnt start laying till 15 months, i was quite surprised, they do make great broodies though, even if they are a little stupid. I put Barbu duccle eggs underneath...

From experience chicks up to 14 odd weeks seem to be just one homogenous tribe, they will except other chicks of any age and ive never seen any bullying, the hens tend to establish a gentler pecking order and the roos just fall into a natural dominance order as they get older within the brood...

Make sure your heat plate isnt too low, when they settle down it shouldnt touch them at all.

When i was a child i chopped the head off one of my chickens with a shovel, i was gardening and it just appeared out of nowhere to snatch a worm......... as i slammed the shovel into the ground......... my mum ran down the garden to me screaming, covered in blood, needless to say that little...

Time for the little crap machines to go outside, massive mix of colours. WWe will see how many of these are olive eggers next year :)

Hello world...... and i still maintain this is the last hatch............

Well out of 35 eggs set, one was infertile and the other 34 have made it to lockdown. Would be nice to finish on a high and have a good hatch rate :)

This will unfortunately be my final hatchalong (i think) I have 34 in the incy set to hatch on the fifth. This is the final phase or the end game as my wife calls it (too much avengers methinks). Ive basically set mostly ccl x cbm to get the olives i started out for 3 years ago ive also set some...

How many eggs did you set in the Brinsea? I only ask because its took me three years and ten hatches to really understand how my cosmo evo 72 works. Because its such a large incubator if i set between a dozen and twenty then i struggle stabilising both humidity and temp BUT if i set 40 plus then...

If it hasnt pipped in to the air cell then it isnt ready. The hole in the picture is roughly where the chick would internally pip but there is still an awful lot of blood in the membrane, the chick wont go any further until it has absorbed the yolk and blood from the egg. And dont worry too...

I have an absolutely mental brahma, she recently went broody and hatched some chicks (all good). The problem started when she laid an egg when the chicks were just under a month old, her behaviour changed, she didnt care about the chicks, completely ignored them and just kept trying to get back...

My brahma now qualifies as the worst mother ever by far. Not only was she a poor sitter AND a poor mother shes now abandoned her chicks to go broody again. This started 48 hours ago when i noticed a broken egg in her seperate broody coop, she seemed distant, paying no attention to her chicks and...

Well that was a moderately awful experience. I didnt get any pips till day 24, only 4 of 11 hatched on thier own, 3 internally pipped and DIS. The others i assisted BUT the DIS and the assists ALL have the same leg problems, left legs totally seperated at the knee and the leg almost turned...

Thank you for this. My air cells are slightly smaller than this but not worryingly so, they have started drawing down now so look a lot bigger anyway. I got conflicting info on incy temp (some say 99.5 other 100f) so i went middle of the road at 99.7 Day 21 will technically start at midday today...

Hygrometer was calibrated before hatch and is comparable to the built in digital incy and the extra digital hygrometer/temp reader +/- a couple of percent. All the wells in the incy are dry atm and its still ambient at around 35%. Im on about 19.5 days so there is still time to draw down, i dont...

45% s what ive had it on and there has been a small change in size, maybe just not as much as i would have expected. Ive also read that goldens can take anywhere between 21 and 23 days to hatch, if it leans toward the latter then there is still time for the air sack to draw down i guess?

Im a little worried as the air sacks on my golden pheasant eggs seems very small compared to say a chicken. They are now on day 20 and ive kept lowering the humidity over the last week to try and increase the size but there seems too be very little difference in terms of size since the day i set...

Im still in this hatch a long although it will run into next month. Big old bator just for a dozen golden pheasant eggs, due to hatch on the 8th.