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Tried to keep it around 50% (according to the gauge on the incubator). Had some mornings I discovered it had dropped to 30%. I bumped to 60% last few days. The plug was in for the majority, out around hatch time.

I'm asking this question mostly just to satisfy curiosity about the Hovabator I recently bought, rather than really needing to solve the problem (since I plan to toss the Hovabator). I have another incubator (Brinsea mini) that I've used 5 times and had 90%+ success every time. I got the...

I am pretty new to the whole rooster thing, but ours is definitely more of a benevolent dictator than an oppressor. He spends 90% of his time finding bugs for the hens, pointing them out and stepping back to let the hens eat first, standing in the crowd keeping an eye out for predators and...

I'm not sure whether this is cause or effect. That is, I'm not sure whether a sick hen stuffed itself into a crevice behind a container in the coop, or she went back there to lay and became trapped. I noticed her back there yesterday afternoon, and thought she was just finding a place to lay...

Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind. Thanks for the tip about the insulation.

When housing dual purpose birds, in this case, Barred Plymouth Rocks, are the layers housed seperately from the ones intended for the freezer? From the reading I've done so far, it looks like there are some reasons to have completely seperate facilities, but I don't see lots of people talking...

Ok, thanks! I think I'll get my fix, in terms of numbers, when/if we decide to do the meat birds also. Actually, I was just about to post another question about meat birds, but I believe that is a new topic, so I will start a new thread.

Ah, ok, so it sounds like no major red flags then? Great. Now I can start refining the plan a bit. The part about 8 hens was sort of a joke, right? I mean we will probably average a few more, but I was picturing that 8 would provide about 3-4 eggs a day. Is that wishful thinking for good...

We just purchased a home in a rural area in the Pacific Northwest, and I have no experience with chickens. I have questions about where to locate the coop on my property. There is a shop building about 50 feet from the house with a shed roof extension on the west end (a space one might park a...