Recent content by grimes1213

Yes! The tray is frustrating! My standard sized eggs just ended up all sorts of directions.. I used it though for my first batch and just didn't worry too much if they were facing the "wrong way" and I had a 100% hatch of my own backyard mutts. For this 2nd hatch I had a mix of shipped and...

Just saw this.. I can change my hatch timer to whatever days... and also turn it off all together.

Thanks! I don't think I see any spots on any heads, I will double check! I can't wait to see what they look like as they grow :) most of them are going to a friend so hopefully I will be able to see how they turn out! His is the whole gang: The bottom row is the three questionable brown egg...

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for the advice! We had a successful hatch! Very happy I quickly purchased a cheapo hygrometer at Walmart for my hatch because the built in gauge would have been very off if I had followed that.. we hatched 15/15 of the fertile eggs we put in.. we...

These 2 came from dark brown eggs which I believe are my golden cuckoo marans eggs.. my welsummer is usually more speckly.. and they have black legs and neither the rooster nor the marans have a black leg.. weird?

This is the daddy..

This is the light brahma hen.. she's a hot mess.. her feathers always look rough.

I am leaning towards barred rock because of the dark wash on the legs... but I can't remember if my brahmas had that when they were babies too? The rocks def don't anymore, they are yellow legged now as adults.

I hatched a bunch of mutts from our own backyard flock, and I know who most everyone belongs to based on egg color they hatched from - but I am having a hard time telling between the barred rock and brahma eggs... I have these 3 almost identical chicks that hatched from brown eggs, they are...

ahh pet stores.. didn't even think of that. thanks!

will do.

And I have no choice but to trust it now at this point, I don't have an external one to double check it..

I had taken the tray out, but the directions said to leave it in...

Hi everyone! This is my first time incubating eggs (except for maybe once in middle school lol) AND first time using an incuview incubator.. so far I have been pretty happy with the results.. set 24, after candling ended up with 15 who all seem to be doing very well as far as I can tell (the...

Hi! I am a first year backyard chicken owner.. I have a flock of 12, 1 rooster and 11 hens. My rooster was of course, a mistake lol, but we love him, he's beautiful and gentle (so far), he is my profile picture. He is a blue partridge brahma from a local lady who breeds them. My son named...