incubaton

I am on my fourth hatch with this incubator. My last hatch was the most successful getting 17 out of 18 eggs hatched. Are use the auto turner on the first three hatches but the last hatch the eggs were too big and I had to manually do that. I just cleaned and sanitized my incubator and now I...

There has been this egg I don’t think the chick has been alive for a while in it but I always kept it in just in case today I opened the incubator and there was this awful smell coming from the egg! I’ve had bad eggs before but they don’t usually smell this bad I did the float test and it...

Hey all! I am hatching for the first time. I started with 16 shipped eggs. Gave half to my broody hen and half in an incubator. I’ve candled both sets through the process all looked good. Didn’t see any detached air cells, all but 3-4 eggs were developing. Wednesday evening started day 21, as...

IT'S OCTOBER! IT'S TIME FOR THE ANNUAL HALLOWEEN HATCH-A-LONG! GET READY BOY'S & GIRL'S! Please reference this First Post periodically for updates & contest announcement etc. Prepare for two things! Be ready to set Chicken Eggs by the 10th or no later than the 11th. Other types (dates)...

From what i have observed from friends & my first experience i almost a banty egg in my homemade incubator without a hygrometer beginning of October until i tried helping it unzip.. And it was several days after the estimated duedate. it appears they dont hatch until day 24~25. Does anyone else...