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My first time incubating, AND in a homemade incubator..... AND THEY'RE HATCHING!!! 13 eggs in total were set..... so far I have one that hatched last night and looks to be very healthy and happy and there are 3 more pipped right now, with one zipped about 1/4 of the way around and several other...

What is the upper limit of where humidity levels can be for the last 3 days before hatch?

Alright... a bit of an update I guess.... I built a homemade incubator a few weeks back and set 13 eggs. April 18th is the expected hatch date. I candled a few on the 10th and could see a dark body moving around in there so they're developing! Right now they're just sitting on a wire grate...

Our chickens currently get a fenced-in area (100' x 100') for their outdoor area, however after about a year it's been pretty tore up. It is going to be expanded in a few months to about 4x it's current size. We are also fencing in a slightly smaller area (100' x 50') which we can rotate them to...

Does anyone offer salt free-choice for their birds? Our layers our free range, have a hopper of layer mash indoors, a scoop of scratch grain tossed in the hay daily and thrown outdoors as well. Their outdoor fenced area is looking a little sad these days as nothing's growing yet (heck we just...

Is there a BIG difference between using organic apple cider vinegar (the stuff with "mother" in it) and regular ACV? We're using ACV in the water for our 60+ broilers, however the little guys go through a TON of water, so to add organic stuff to their water all the time would cost a small...

Well, after about a week of tweaking and slight mods I finally got the homemade incubator running steady. Since Thursday it's been running right around 99 - 100, humidity staying steady at 50%. So, first thing Sat morning I carefully placed in 13 eggs (yeah, I know, what a number... but I like...

We're surrounded by a lot of woods and old pasture land. PERFECT hawk habitat. Last fall I had a Cooper's Hawk migrating through that within about 5 days made repeated dives at the chickens. Never successful, and I think it was because of our Chineese geese. Things didn't quite work out so well...

While watching the Dirty Jobs episode on sexing chicks they showed the day-olds getting the needle for Mereks disease and it made me wonder.... For those who incubate and hatch their own chicks do you (or can you??) vacinate the chicks for Mereks??? I'm not looking for debates on if you...

So the homemade 'bator is sittin pretty with humidity at 48% and the thermostat is doing it's job. Clicks off at 101, back on at 99. It sits there for about 24 hours. No fluctuations. So yesterday afternoon I put in 15 room-temp eggs. Temps spike to 106. Thermostat doesn't click off. I vent...

Well I decided what the heck, why not try to build an incubator? Miss Prissy's design seemed simple enough and the directions were easy to follow... so low and behold I have a homemade incubator! However, I can't seem to get the temp high enough. Temps are hovering around 99.1F, however the...

I grew up on a rather large farm (cash crops) and my grandma always had TONS of chickens... nothing fancy, just run-of-the-mill layers. Well last summer I finally managed to save up and buy a small hobby farm of our own and we didn't waste any time converting the barn for chickens. I'll be...

What originally turned out to be an odd quirk has turned into a major issue. I bought 5 Chineese geese from a local market last summer (yep, not doing that again...) There were 2 males, 3 females. Four of them were 2 weeks old and one was 1 week old. ALL of the four that were 2 weeks old have...