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Songster
We decided to try out to incubate chicken eggs this year after raising successful day old chicks last year. We also are adding are rare breed to our flock. The forum is a great help about incubation and helped overcoming the hesitation of incubating. We decided to buy the nurture right 360 and the Brinsea Maxi. Our current flock is 8 hens and a Silverrud Isabar Rooster.
We decided to do the first hatch with the nurture right. A lot of information is here on the forum. It was easy to put together. It came quick up to temperature and the humidity took a bit. We set the eggs on 3/3 and by today is the humidity stable between 48 to 52%. We observed that the incubator increases the humidity to higher level and then lets it go down. We check the water several times a day and top of as needed. We were first concerned that the humidity was not at the manuals level but thanks to the forum here are we more relaxed and understand that too high humidity is worse as a temporary lower one (especially in the beginning).
We are looking forward to the 7 day candling. We are already looking at a lot of pictures to train our eyes and remember what we need to look for. Found out the hard way that blue/green eggs are a lot harder to candle as brown. Luckily did we way each egg as we set it.
Looking forward to hear your 1st time hatching egg stories and advise. Good or bad.
So far we like the Nurture Right 360 incubator. Definitive will try out the Brinsea too and will report on that.
We decided to do the first hatch with the nurture right. A lot of information is here on the forum. It was easy to put together. It came quick up to temperature and the humidity took a bit. We set the eggs on 3/3 and by today is the humidity stable between 48 to 52%. We observed that the incubator increases the humidity to higher level and then lets it go down. We check the water several times a day and top of as needed. We were first concerned that the humidity was not at the manuals level but thanks to the forum here are we more relaxed and understand that too high humidity is worse as a temporary lower one (especially in the beginning).
We are looking forward to the 7 day candling. We are already looking at a lot of pictures to train our eyes and remember what we need to look for. Found out the hard way that blue/green eggs are a lot harder to candle as brown. Luckily did we way each egg as we set it.
Looking forward to hear your 1st time hatching egg stories and advise. Good or bad.
So far we like the Nurture Right 360 incubator. Definitive will try out the Brinsea too and will report on that.