Ok. I went and bought some eggs from my uncle 20 days ago and put them in my homemade incubator. This is after my nephew "played pool" with the eggs while gathering them. The temperature outside was below freezing when we went to get the eggs and my nephew picked one up off the frozen ground and...
I have 6-1/2 dozen eggs going in my incubator tonight! I have some eggs in my other incubator but I am not expecting a very good hatch rate. They are going into lockdown next saturday.
I have only a few silkie eggs that I found in the coop(I have no idea how long they were there as they were...
ok byc experts, what happened to this egg? Is this a fluke egg, or can I expect more like this one? Can I hatch it?I almost want to frame it! Poor hen It came from a small rhode island hen.
I also got an egg with a really soft shell, is this from lack of calcium?
I finally got my incubator perfected for now (3 degree variance ) and I owe a thank you to BYC members that patiently helped me out w/my questions. I am hopefully on my way to brand new chicks out of my own little hatchery.
thanks again BYC!!
I am trying to regulate the temperature in my ice chest incubator and am almost at wits end. I think by now, I would have been further ahead buying a incubator. I tried placing the thermostat in a metal container higher up, away from the bulb, close to the bulb, directly above the bulb, and...
Hi, I am new at incubating eggs but I ran into a problem while turning the eggs. I used the gopher bator design but built it to hatch 18 eggs at a time. The gopher bator shows the egg carton crosswise in the cooler. well, with a 18 egg system, you need to have the eggs higher to get a good angle...
I am planning on hatching silkies and thought I would try incubating some eggs I had available first as a test.
I decided to build my own incubator and have a lot of questions.
1.dirty eggs I have 1 1/2 dozen eggs that collected quite a bit of poop. Am I wasting my time in trying to hatch...
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When I was a young turkey, new to the coup,
My big brother Mike took me out on the stoop,
Then he sat down, and he spoke real slow,
And he said there was something that I had to know,
His look and his tone I will always remember,
When he told me of the horrors of ...