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If you are only calculating your cost of feed for the amount of eggs and your time, it does not work out to be very profitable. What you can look at is the fertilizer that will benefit you for a veggie garden, which means you won't need to buy fertilizer because you already have the best you...

Gotta love the duckies. Wow, now I want ducks. Dang it. I do have a pond. Well I lost 2 today. One smothered and my husband had to take care of #32. #32 could not stand or walk 5 hours after I assisted in the hatch. Yes, next time if they can't hatch on their own there is something...

Well, looks like Quackers #4 is doing good. Hatch is complete here. Out of 42 I have 32. 4 pipped but never progressed and died, I believe it was due to so many of the new hatchlings laying on the eggs, the rest of the eggs still had not pipped. I'm thinking some were smothered by the...

Here are a few pictures of my babies. 29 hatched so far out of 42, if no more hatch I feel lucky that I have this many for my first try at incubation. Good to see so many hatches are making progress. Good luck all.

Quote: good plan lol. I never thought I'd say his, but I am actually glad I had to work today. If I had stayed home I wouldn't have gotten a thing done!! Try Working from home! I swear I am not going to get any work done today, I keep checking the eggs like every 5 minutes! I even left for...

Illia~~ that is awesome. So, cute. 18 in the nursery, 3 in the incubator that just hatched, 21 to go. I had to set up a nursery, they were not drying and I could not get the humidity down, even with the plugs out and the majority of the water drained the humidity was still at 85%. Set...

Love your set up and your arrangement of the eggs. Good luck with your hatch. I wish I had that much viewing space. Maybe I will look for an aquarium.

Oh, OOOPS ! Daughter woke me up this morning to tell me that the incubator was full of chicks but she could not tell how many because she could not see through the windows. I ran to the incubator the best I could in my early morning state and found that the humidity was 90%. I have been...

Well after the first pip it finally hatched after 17 hours. It was the first to pip and the second to hatch. We now have 3 chicks and I lost count of the pips. One that hatched I never saw the pip on it, it just started hatching. Seems that after a few hatches the others hatch faster...

Mom2Munchkins~~ Congratulations on your pip! TGarcia ~~ Glad your getting the humidity worked out. It took me a little bit of trial and error. I am up to 10 pips now after 13 hours and I have one little chick working so hard at unzipping. This one is not a quiter that is for sure. I had...

TGarcia~~I don't know what incubator you are using but in my Hovabator I have 3 holes on the top 2 with red plugs and 1 that is right over the top of the fan. I have been sitting a glass over the top of that hole ( the one without the plug ) for a few minutes to help increase the humidity...

I'm in lockdown since yesterday 4/12. Had a small situation today with eggs touching the water in the bottom of the bator. Had to take them to the steamy bathroom to take care of that. No pips as of yet and no wobbles either. Maybe there will be more wobbles when they start to pip. So...

Quote: Wow, humidity at 72%? I thought it was suppose to be 50% while incubating then 60% at lockdown. I am using a Genesis Huvabotor and that is what they called for. I have silkies due to hatch on Thursday, silkies, and maybe 2 Blue Splash Marans on Saturday and maybe 3 Blue Splash Marans...

Well, the turner is out and we are in lockdown. Humidity is at 72 for now, had it up to 70 then it dropped to 68, I added more water so now maybe it will stabalize. All 42 eggs are on their sides, now more waiting. I saw an egg wobble a few nights ago, but I have not noticed any more...

Day 18 and I am having a hard time keeping the humidity up also. Later I will be locking down and I am so hoping that I can get the humidity up and keep it as close to 70% as possible. Maybe because of a high pressure system for my area that has the outside air cool and dry. I'm sure the...

I will post pictures for sure. Hatch date is 15th. Lockdown is tomorrow the 12th I watched a discovery clip on youtube of the chicks that are hatched in the hatcheries and wow, I'd say they had better be tough. The egg is actually punctured to inject a vaccine, now would that not cause...

I'm hatching with you, maybe a few days before. This is my first hatch, and so far all 42 eggs have movement in them. This just a few days from lockdown. Was the humidity right? Was it too high or too low, are my thermometers/hydrometer accurate? So many things to think about and...

CRW, Don't beat yourself up. Sometimes we can't foresee all the problems that could happen. When I ordered mine last year, I asked the hatchery about the weather, he said no problem, with the quantity I had ordered they would be fine plus I would have them the next day. He said they do...

Yes, everyone please think about how far your chicks are coming from, the temperatures that they may have to encounter. Last March, I ordered 28 chicks, they were coming from in my own state and I was told I would have them the next day. The next morning the post master called me and said...

Hi, I've been a member for just a short while, I've been reading as much on here as I can and have learned a lot especially about incubating. I may be new to this site but not new to hens & roos. I've just never hatched my own. Seems my hens aren't reliable sitters, will sit a few days or a...