I don't ask. I just go out and start building it myself and when he comes out and sees how pathetic and poorly built it is he takes over, lol. It works out well, he feels like a hero and I get him to do it without nagging him :)
I had my humidity at 30% until lockdown, 70% during. Temp fluctuated between 99.89 - 100.4. That being said I was only using the incubator gauges which I will never do again. It is a forced air. None of them even had their heads up in the position to internally pip.
Hi all you highly skilled hatchers! I would love it if any of you would be willing to check out my eggtopsy pictures on my "all my chicks died" thread. I have looked over the eggtopsy thread and still can not figure out what happened, I would love some help.
I had 5 eggs that I assumed made it to lockdown. By day 23,no internal pips and no movement seen while candling, so I did eggtopsy and they were all dead. This was my first atempt at hatching, I'm asumming that it was an issue with temp or humidity but I'm wondering if they even all made it to...
I'm into hibernating! Got another couple inches last night but by Thursday the temps are supposed to go up to 7C, so fingers crossed it will all melt then. It's going to be a long winter if it says :(
I have eggs in an incubator and eggs under a broody, the eggs in the incubator are set to hatch a week before the broody. Can I raise them in a brooder for a week until the ones under the broody start to hatch then sneak them into her? Or will they not accept her as their mother because they...