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I ended up with 11 out of original 18 hatching.Not the best hatch rate but 3 never really developed and I dropped 1. Hope everyone else was successful.Enjoy your Easter!God Bless everyone and all the little baby chicksI still have couple chicks in incubator waiting few more hours before they are...

The peeps have started.I here a lot of peeping incubator .From what I can see 5 have just cracked thru shell and 4 others wiggling and giggling going to break thru anytime.

I started with 18 eggs down to 13 eggs.4 stopped developing and i drop 1.Havent heard any peeps but eggs are wiggling and shaking like crazy.today day 20

I put 18 eggs in lockdown early this morning.I'm not sure about 4 of them but put them in anyways.3 of of those 4 are very dark color eggs making it hard to see inside but they didn't look fully developed.The 4th egg had a accident and was cracked pretty bad.A egg slipped out of my hand but I...

Lockdown in 12 hours! Whoohooo

Nothing worse than broody hen stealing all the eggs.I have one hen that went broody and wouldnt stop taking all other hens eggs she had ao many eggs she couldnt cover them all.they were either getting broken or not being covered all the time so none of them were ever hatching.Finally i just...

I candled the 18 eggs I started 3/10 (16) looked good (1)not sure (1)not looking good.4 days till lockdown.

You never know what will show up when you buy fertile eggs on eBay.

What a day my butt is killing me.About 15 minutes after I woke up this morning power went out.I called Electric co. They said power would be down about 4 hours.After about 45 minutes incubator temp was down to 80° .I tried putting blankets over incubator to hold in heat but it was...

I have bad news with regards to eBay eggs.Eggs usually need to be started within a week I'm guessing 10 days would be limit.14 days will be nearly impossible you will probably end up with a lot of exploding eggs.I had my bad experience with eBay eggs last month.Nothing worse than cleaning...

Turning egg before embyro has began to develop doesn't help anything.By leaving egg big end up for first 8 days it just insures air sack and embyro are all in right position and not damaged when chick starts to develop.I will take photos when I candled eggs on day 9.

Nice job! I think mixed breeds are stronger and live longer.

I started my eggs a hour ago 10.00am sharp.First 8 days my eggs stay big end up I don't touch or turn my eggs till day 8 or 9 .Day 9 I will candle eggs and move them to incubator with automatic egg turner.Then day 18 I will move back to incubator I started them in.I only move them back because...

I clean all my eggs with hydrogen peroxide before incubating them.I have it in spray bottle.I spray eggs then lightly wipe any dirty spots on egg

Yes I made incubator out of old toy wooden oven and I use parts from a hotdog rotisserie to make automatic egg Turner.It works really good very high hatch rate but only holds 14 eggs max.

Last month had really good luck incubating Feb 1 (10eggs) Feb 5(5 eggs) Feb 10(5eggs) ended up with 19 out of 20 healthy chicks and 1 that didn't hatch was my fault I dropped egg. I'm waiting on 11 more eggs I started Feb 24 .

I'm in my eggs are prepped and ready.