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i like that idea! the towel. im in california but we have been having wonky freezing temps out of the blue. also my eggs that i added have dethatched cells. sigh :( ive been reading up on it all day. so i have them in an egg carton and im going to hope for the best. but i dont want to get my...

Update, I calibrated the govee with the ice then the salt put it back in the incubator in a couple hours it climbed like a mountain instead of the up n down it was doing, all the way up to 100.3 so I added the eggs last night, temp fell to 96 and stayed there. I thought it was because I opened...

Thanks for this information! I'm going to get on this right away. My seremas shipped today so I believe I have time to get it correct. I already have my silkie eggs though. They are just coming to the 24 hr mark after shipping so...

OK. Thanks for replying guys. The govee is a box I can't test it to boiling water :( I'm not sure if it needs to be calibrated or even how the instructions didn't say anything for that so I will google. I think there is a fan in the incubator? It really just is a Styrofoam box lol my husband...

I have just the Styrofoam incubator with no egg turner so I turn the eggs 3+ times a day.

Hello, I have successfully hatched in my incubator barnyard mixes from my own flock, a really good success rate with no issues. I put the incubator away for a couple of years and just pulled it out to hatch silliest and seremas I purchased from the internet. It was recommended that I buy a govee...

Ok thanks for the advice 👍 I'm getting right on it. I have the neosporin on hand so in gonna fix her up right quick ❤️

This is my 4th time having baby chick's. 2nd time with a momma hen doing all the work. I noticed this baby's eye and just hoped it would get better but it seems to be alot worse 😕 none of the other chick's have anything but I did notice on the momma she does have a scab on her eyelid. So...

my husband didnt get the turner...i didnt notice anything about it until i was reading the instructions lol. i was hand turning 3x a day anyhow...thanks for that info with the sponge. we did put some water but i will do that for next time. seems that it would just make things easier...so last...

update...we candled again this morning and 3 were moving ever so slowly husband went and bought a new incubator and they are in there <3 hopefully they make it...

oh no, :( i submitted a picture...it went up to 36 degrees with the lamp...i also have my candler on it....sigh

and yes it did come in styrofoam its long gone though...the heat pad would be safer i think...

Hello im new at hatching. Ive never successfully hatched but this is my 3rd attempt. 1st attempt none were fertile...2nd attempt we lost them between day 10-13..(i think the temp was to high at 38.5).this one my incubator just wont get hotter then 30c on its own. im on day 11...4 eggs WERE all...

oh wow thanks for that info....im lovin this life. <3

thank you...no i dont know what breed. we just got a new rooster and i thought he was going to be to young to do anything lol. those are the ones i have. the 1 other chicken is a white one....can anyone tell me what they are? does the comb matter because one of my white chickens has a super...

Hello, i tried to incubate some eggs and it didnt work out. I dont think they were even fertilized. we cracked them and 5 were like water and 2 had a yolk form but no blood in any of them. It was like day 15. So we are trying to do it again. this time weve got 5 eggs that i put in on the 17th...

Thanks for the warm welcome :) Im in California. Bakersfield to be exact.

So my story starts/goes like this kids we playing outside in the back one day last year when i heard a bunch of screaming commotion...i goto the back door to find out what was going on to see a chicken sprinting across my back yard! kids were chasing it or it was chasing them. all i recall is...