homemade incubator

My current incubator (Janoel 12) is translucent, so I am eager to create a hatching incubator myself with a clear window at the top so I can watch the process.... i definitely would prefer to see it!! This way I wont be opening the incubator to check and losing all the humidity... If my dry...

Hello all! My husband and I decided we wanted to get a few chickens for the backyard to give us some yummy fresh eggs. Well, somehow that has turned into me getting eggs to hatch myself! I bought 10 silkie eggs from a local farm in my town. I made my own incubator following some posts on here...

Here is my new project! It's a side by side Fridge and Freezer! The freezer part will be my hatcher and my incubator will be the Fridge part. This is my Fridge: We had to take off the doors, and glass shelf's to get it out their house. Got it home and had a Fridge repair man remove the...

When i went to check the eggs on my homemade incubator they were reeeeeaaalyy hot (over 40C), is there any hope for them? How many degrees is too much for the egg to survive? Should I throw them away or keep them in the incubator? Thanks

Hi! This is my first time hatching chickens, I have 3 Easter egger eggs and 3 Australorp eggs. If they hatch I’m going to be giving them to my community’s hobby farm, anyways for an experiment I am using a desk lamp with a shoe box to try to incubate. I have: Desk lamp with 40 watt bulb (read...

So I made a homemade incubator that is working fine and I'm monitoring humidity and temp on 2 different gadgets. I originally bought 4 eggs but now only 2 are developing as I discarded the bad ones that started leaking. This is the Eighth Day these two eggs are developing and they're moving...

Before I ever had the opportunity to raise chickens, I lived out my dreams through my father, who had a small flock that free ranged on his 2 acres of country land. We lived in a small apartment in the married student housing section of my husbands University campus. We had two small boys ages...

I have plenty of eggs with a seemingly broody Brown Leghorn and 4 other laying hens. I came home after getting up to 9 eggs from 1 hen with 2 missing ( i blame the ducks bc there was nothing to be found), and one cracked. So, i decided to bring them in. I'm out on short term disability due to a...

Hello! I am planning on making an incubator and attempting to incubate some button quail eggs soon. I just had a few questions that have always been on my mind. 1. Should I give my button quails a sand bath? If so what sand should I use? 2. Will my buttons be fine in the winter if I kept them...

Hi Everyone! I am fairly new to the site been watching and reading a lot to learn and am now just making my first post :) We started with just 4 chickens when we bought our hobby farm in 2016 and have learned so much already! We now have a decent flock of layers. I just wanted to share a...