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So I have been incubating eggs for about twelve days, I put 18 eggs in and had 17 developing very well! Until today. For about an hour and a half the power has been out, I was doing homestead activities outside so I had no idea about this. I came back in and saw the temp down to 80-83F Humidity...

Hello byc! today is day 20 of incubating chicken eggs and I have one last question. So I walked over to the incubator this morning, just to see if i could view any signs of pipping. And no :hmm But! I was just tapping the incubator and I heard four chirps. but no pip. Is this normal? I'm not...

Hey, I am now on day 19 of incubation, and i was wondering if seeing an egg wattle means that they are on there way. If they do this will they be out in the next day?

Hello. Today is day 17 of incubation and it is really exciting. Would it mess anything up if I locked down the eggs today? Or at least remove the turner. Because I don't want them to hatch on the opposite side of the egg when I lay them down flat. Thanks

Hello guys! It's day 16 of incubation, and I just have a really quick question. Can I Remove the egg turner tomorrow? I have seen the eggs moving a little if I looked hard enough. Thank you for any help.

Hello Byc! I have been incubating eggs for 16 days now and I just need a couple answers about the days to come. #1 My temperature throughout the incubation period was at a steady 100.0F to about 100.2F my question is that, will I get an early batch because of this? or a later one. My incubator...

Hello Byc! So I am on day 15 of incubation. But of course some issues happend. While I was gone picking up my chick stuff the incubator must have unplugged. Because when I got home, the humidity was all the way up 75% and the temperature was down to 70F. I think it must have been off for an...

Hello Byc! I live in New York and as you probably know, I'm quarantined. and it just so happens I have baby chicks coming in a week! I have a heat lamp and bulb, and a brooder. I don't have chick feed or containers for them. I have no Tractor Supply around because they all shut down due to the...

Hello Byc! I am incubating chicken eggs, its day 10 and they seem to be doing fairly well, However My humidity is acting odd. It keeps going to 50 and then a couple hours later, it goes down to 40 again! Then it just reverses every couple of hours every day. I read that if the humidity keeps...

Hello Byc! I have been incubating chicken eggs for seven days now and there all doing very well. My question is that if I keep opening the incubator to candle each egg, will that damage the embryo at all? I have 14 eggs and it takes me no more then 60 seconds to candle them, but I don't want to...

Hello, I am incubating eggs this year, and i'm on day 4. I have been candling the eggs every day to check there progress, and I was wondering if they will be fine if i'm doing this? or will they die. I just candled them and I saw an embryo. I really do not want to mess with them, now i'm not...

Hey Byc! Today i`m on day 3 of incubation, and I just want to know if you can see anything inside the egg by this day. I did candle them just a few moments ago, and just saw that the egg yolk was darker and that's it. Thank you!

Hello, If my humidity was at 70% for my first 3 days of incubation will the embryos be fine? I had nothing to read it for three days until I got a humidity reader today. Thank You.:)

Hey guys, I just started incubating eggs with a small giant incubator, I am 3 days in. Do any of you know what the humidity should be at? I have nothing to tell me what its at, and is this a big issue for my eggs. I also have been opening my incubator a lot today because the humidity in the room...

Hey, I have been raising chickens for about six years now, and my biggest concern is hatching. My question is that can you make a hen go broody on it's own? Because my Hens tend to not go broody at all, if they decide to go broody they sit on the eggs for about 10 days and leave them probally...