Still trying to find out wether my eggs are going to hatch, they are on day 27 and two eggs are dark when candled, how do I check to make sure that they are alive, no activity but stuff is floating in them but we are new and the eggs are brown so they are hard to candle. Any suggestions?
my husband and i are new to chicken farming and thought we would try hatching our own brood, currently we have two batches on the go. the first was to hatch on the 5th. After candling them it looks like 3 of the 11 have chickens, how long do you wait before you decide they are not alive, the...
we have borrowed an incubator from our neighbours but it doesn't have a humidity gauge or fan, the heat has been consistent, how bad is this for our peeps? I have a dish of water that i have been keeping full of water for humidity?
we are new to hatching and thought it would be a good experiment for our kids to watch a chicken develop. I have approx 30 eggs that i got from my work on a farm to see if they could be hatched. The chickens look like isa reds, we would like to know how to candle a brown egg as they don't seem...