We've had 33 hatch and all done well so far this year! Still waiting on a few in hatch #2, they're are a lot more colors than black and blue this time so cute!
Looking like this hatch might be 15/22 which is ok since I wasn't sure about some that went in but they're all cute and happy. The last hate hatcher is a bit sticky and having a bit of special recovery time but hopefully everyone is ok and we will have a bunch of chickens soon. 4 I'm keeping for...
And number 5 is out. I can hear it from downstairs. I attempted to tape it and the camera turned off as it popped out lol. It was promptly inspected by the 30 ish hour old chick who thought chick perch sounded good but all seems well. They'll likely all be this color roughly. Daddy is blue and...
They do affect the temp a teensy bit yes but in my experience not quite that much. Lockdown is a bit funky here because we check a lot until it's restabalized.
Ok so 22 eggs are I lockdown - barnyard mixes 20 from one rooster, 2 from the other.
I have 4... Maybe 5 but I think the 5th doesn't look good, might be a blood ring situation - that are on day 15 and will go in lockdown when these first guys hatch out... Then a whole incubator 33? Eggs on day...
I've thought about what could be done and there are a few things that concern me like how condensation gathers, the fumes like you mentioned and how hear is retained and so on, If you ever do it let us know how it went