Recent content by willeyd

Hi everyone. Had my first success with hatching chickens Using the dry incubation method. Put in two eggs at the same time...one of them has hatched and is running inside the incubator. The other egg the chick has piped its shell (see attached pic) and I can see it clearly breathing. It has...

Nothing happened at all. All eggs didn't hatch :( I bought a Janoel 48 egg incubator. Hopefully have more luck with that. Going to try to dry incubate

Unfortunately can't afford the incubators mentioned here. Australia doesn't stock them. I would have to order overseas which would work out too expensive once U convert Australian dollars to American. A friend uses and recommends...

I was looking for at the Janoel jn-48...what's people's experience with them? Is there any difference in incubators that only allow you to place eggs pointy end down fat end up? Compared to the incubators that only allow you to lay eggs on their side? Difference in hatch rates?

Hi everyone. I bought a really cheap 7 egg incubator on the Internet from China. It is stuffed and won't let me adjust the temp anymore. So it's basically cooking my eggs now. I have tried incubating 2 batches with no success. I'm after an incubator which is fully automatic and requires me to do...

Also forgot to add, I'm using a dodgy candler...Using my iPhone torch. Excuse the monkey cover lol.

Pics of my eggs...are any of them alive? One of the eggs has a black dot that moves when you slightly tilt the egg. This egg has some very faint veins. The other eggs have black dots, however, doesn't move when you slightly tilt the eggs. Is the air cell and egg development correct? What should...

Pic of my incubator. I bought a humidity reader. It says 36 percent humidity and 41.3 degrees Celsius...my incubator only reads the temperature and says 37.5 degrees Celsius. What do I trust for temperature? My incubator or humidity reader?

I will try post some pics tomorrow. I can only see one egg that has blood vessels. I dont think the rest do though...I candled it again before goig to bed. I think I saw the egg with the blood vessels embryo move a little...im just hoping I got the correct air cell etc.

There is still some condensation on the cover. However it's significantly smaller than the picture above.

Well I've reached day 10. Ran it dry for a day. Put a tablespoon of water in this morning. I candled today. There is only one egg which I can see some veins. There is also a black dot inside this egg. It is not however, moving. Is it dead? The rest of the eggs I can only see a black shadow...

The incubator is on the tiles at the moment. Maybe moving it upstairs on the carpet and putting a cardboard box as U suggested over it will help? The incubator is dry as of this morning. Wiped it down. Should I leave like that overnight and still add teaspoon water in morning? I'm living in...

Thanks for the advice. I'm in day 8 at the moment. For 7 days the condensation has been as shown in the pic. So it's not too late for the eggs to survive? I'm in Australia. So at the moment it is cold weather for us. Usually 15-17 degrees Celsius days. Temp dropping at night to 9. Inside my...

Well Ive drained all the water out and wiped off condensation... Set eggs back in. 37.5 degrees. I'm nervous. Did I do the right thing? When do I put water back in??

Two eggs are touching the condensation...are they ruined now? So drain all the water and run incubator dry? I thought they needed water?