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Since I stole my broody's incubating eggs mistakenly, today she got six new chicks, all supposedly pullets, to raise instead: a barred rock, a Rhode Island red, a salmon faverolles, a buckeye, a Sicilian buttercup and a speckled Sussex. She got much more aggressive very quickly, but she's also...

I have a hen that has been broody since New Year's. She's been the strangest one yet. She keeps hopping nests. I think either she's very low ranking and gives up her nest, at least sometimes, when another hen invades to lay, or she's just very nervous in general. I'd manged to keep up with...

Do you find you can use its full capacity or just the warmest part?

Thanks. They’re so funny. Sometimes it all goes terribly wrong and other times, most of the time, they give me pretty good hatches, at least 75%. But each and every time the first week is nail biting as we readjust. I should probably just never unplug it!

Hey, all, joining in. I incubate monthly with my little styrofoam Little Giant. I just have chickens but would love to add guineas and turkeys this year if I can find eggs or chicks at the right moment. I just set 18 eggs yesterday and am in the usual up and down with the incubator as it and...