Recent content by jimbowk

Well looking closer at eggs with the light, I don’t think the others would hatch, I pulled the plug. What is the average hatch rate with incubators? Ive only done it a few times and hatch rate was about 50-60 percent. Next time i might wait for a brewding hen. Thanks for all you reply’s.

I will look for the air cell, and to the other response this is day 23. Thanks for all your reply’s.

Yes I did candle them, two are definitely duds but the other two are solid dark., thanks for the tip on exploding eggs.

I incubated 9 eggs, 5 hatched on day 21, how long should I let the other 4 stay in the incubator?,

I incubated 9 eggs, 5 hatched on day 21, how long should I let the other 4 stay in the incubator?,

Thanks for the information. I think the other chickens did most of the damage, hard to believe what they can do sometimes. pretty gruesome. The coup is built very tight, and they are locked in every night. This happened in the middle of the day, inside the coup. I was even working outside of it...

Hello again. maybe someone could answer this. I found one of my hens laying on the floor barely alive, It looked like almost all her insides were on the outside. I immediately put her out of her misery. she was about 7 months old. please let me know if there is a cause for this or just a fluke...

thanks, I'll give it a try

My daughter tried out our incubator for the first time, 9 eggs. 7 hatched but one didn't make it. looked like it's insides were on the outside. she was pretty upset about that but was happy with the 6 that made it and are two weeks old now and doing fine. my question is she is incubating eggs...

I just got an incubator and am going to give it a shot, my daughter is real excited. I was wondering about the statement you made about opening the incubator and that bieng bad for the eggs. would that not be the same as the hen getting off of eggs? Our hen hatched one egg a few months ago, she...

Yes she did see it, she never got far from the chick. thank you jim

We had a hen start to nest on the eggs even before we had a rooster. so we got 3 fertile eggs from a relatives chickens and put them under the hen, 21 days later one of them hatched. It's amazing how the new mother chicken new how to take care of a chick, she did very well. But today a hawk got...