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THANKS! Anyone have tips for cleaning the incubator???? I have one of the basic farm innovations still air incubators that are like $50 at TSC. My hatch is over so I went to clean the incubator out and I'm having a heck of a time. With the dried on stuff, I tried soap and warm water, then I...

Blue French Copper Maran chick! Only one that hatched out of the 4 eggs I bought. Last one out, too. Total eggs that hatched on the first time incubating was 12.

Last chick just hatched. The only blue french copper maran that hatched, so very happy to get this little one. Total hatch was 12 (6 from an online order of 18, 5 from an online order of 12, and 1 from an online order of 4) Not great results, but could be worse..... Had no choice but to go to...

Any tips on telling gender??? This is my first hatch, and in the past I've always ordered day old sexed pullets (besides silkies which they don't sex, but I seem to always get roos!) Over the past year I've had 4 pullets turn out to really be cockerals and I could tell by the quickly developing...

Okay, thanks for the tip and good luck if you do! Could it have been something I could have prevented for future hatchings (turn egg more, set up differently, etc.) Also my humidity was REALLY high though the whole incubation, but anytime I openned the vent my still air incubator (purchased...

Okay so one of my chicks that looked perfect all through candling never openned up at all (the others all hatched thursday). I examined it today to see if there was any movement or pipping and nothing, so I decided to open it up. Inside was a fully developed, full size chick. But it was...

Today is technically day 21 and 22 for my eggs (went in a day apart). However, all of them hatched between Thursday morning and Friday morning. No movement in the ones left in there, and I took all the chicks out and put them in the brooder. When do I take the other eggs out of the bator...

Okay thanks! I ended up taking mine out since they were crashing all the other eggs around in there and kept getting super close to the heating element. I waited about 8 hours until they were dry and fluffy, then put them in my bathroom with an infrared heatlamp brooder. I ran the shower to get...

Nope! Even went to the flock swaps and looked on craigslist. All I could find were super expensive duck eggs and I have no desire to raise ducks. After I already had my mail order eggs we went to a chicken auction, and they had some hatching eggs but my batch was already half way through. We...

That is exactly what I did (got rid of one on accident) and it was TRAUMATIC! I opened it up to see the inside to learn for the future and it was a live baby! Obviously too young to sustain life. So from now one, the ones I think are duds I mark NO in pencil, but keep them in there just in...

I'm right on the Raeford/Hoke County line. I think College Lakes is over by Ramsey? I'm hardly over that way unless we're going 95 north to go back home (I'm from MD, hubby from NY). They're doing a lot of construction over that way. We're military and have been here 4 years this past March. I...

Hey how long do you guys keep yours in the bator before going into the brooder?

YAY!!!

This is good advice, but not always a possible solution. Where I live, no one had hatching eggs. And if you get into more difficult to find breeds then you definitely have to turn to the internet. I have some blue copper marans in there and the egg shells are so dark I never even bothered...

I am new to this, so take my advice with a grain of salt. Honestly, I didn't think ANY were going to hatch! My temp was fluctuating from like 98 to 103! Even after my attempt at calibrating, I still had 3 thermometers giving different readings. Whenever I opened the vents it made my temps go...

I got the basic one (like $50 at tsc and online) It's Farm Innovations still air incubator. Lemme check model number real quick... Model 2100 I paid $47 on amazon.com. TSC has them for $40some in store but every time I went to mine they were sold out. And thanks guys, SUPER EXCITED...

SURE!!! Super excited for first hatch! I had to help the first out who cracked her egg 16 hours ago because it seemed like the membrane wasn't breaking just the shell, and she seemed really stuck. Fingers crossed I didn't do damage, I was trying to help. The other 2 came out all on their own! I...

Honestly, pretty surprised to see chicks since my first incubation period has been a temperature roller coaster!!! Need some help though! 15 hours ago (around 3pm yesterday) we noticed 2 chicks had pecked a little hole in their shell and were peeping. I expected them to be out this morning...

After accidently killing an egg that had a live 10 day old chick fetus, I have stopped candling!!! A couple of eggs were rocking this morning, so I'm hoping I get at least a few to hatch! Should be this Friday or Saturday, getting excited!!!

Thank you guys! That was the only one that looked that way so now I'm thinking I cracked my only growing one! I just bought the basic incubator for like $50 at TSC and it has been awful at holding the temp right. I'm not checking them anymore, I will see in 2 weeks if I have chicks! Hopefully...