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Hi. I've got an old galvanized Brower incubator, and it's now Day 21.5. These are Black Rock eggs, so sex-linked. I've hatched out 6 chicks of 45 eggs and they've all hatched only along the edges??!!? I've had trouble with humidity in this incubator in the past, and so have altered it by...

I've been using your Chicken Tracker for over 3 years and didn't know til now that you were updating it yearly. Always got it from your website page Chicken Tools, but now I see it's no longer alive, so I went looking for it and found this thread. WOW! Updating yearly ! What a service to the...

Thanks, all, very helpful to get these perspectives. Especially that the spine doesn't have anything to do with the oviduct. Many thanks. PCP

Hi there. I hatched out 26 Black Rocks from a RIR roo and BarredRock hens. No idea where the genetics came from, but only one girl has the wry tail, which until I searched here on BYC, didn't know was an existing problem--thank you for that ! So this girl seems fine and gets around...

OK, I thought I would follow-up in case someone searched this question and wanted to know an experience. As my original post mentioned, I *had* 2 chickens, but one abandoned her nest early on and so I was left with a single hen. She hatched out 8 babies: 4 boys, 4 girls. The incubator was...

Hi. I know Isa Browns are a hybrid, from a Rhode Island father, but I'm wondering if anyone has ever bred an ISA hen with a Rhode Island Red cock/rooster? All my reading is saying that they will not be sex-linked. Yet I've got two that are significantly "blonder" than the others...

Thank you all for your replies. I have two hens that have come out of setting, and 26 chicks in all. That would make 13 each. From the replies here, I think I can do that. A baker's dozen ! Thanx again !

I've found a post here that said 18? Wow, would that be possible?

Hi all. I've got a hen who has just hatched out 4 eggs, and another big batch that just hatched out the incubator. The hen won that race. What I'm wondering is how many chicks I can put under the hen as an adoptive mother. It would be great if I could get all of them under her and not have...

Update: Of the 40 eggs, I've got 36 out of shell, three still working away, and one that is not doing a thing. Wow. My first hatch. They came a bit early, because I set them on a Monday and they started Sunday morning. I did open the 'bator halfway through, though, because it was getting...

It's VERY hard to ignore them, as they are making a lot of noise ! I think probably I've got more out, plus I can see at least 2 more pipping through the tiny window. Sheesh, this is difficult. I think if I had a bigger window, I would feel better, because I could see more. Maybe I should...

Today is day 20 and 1/2. I have a Brower 845 which has that teeny tiny window. I locked-down on Friday. My humidity is 60%. 40 eggs after candling twice. 45 minutes ago I heard peeping. Mother's Day ! I rotated the lid (didn't open) and found one baby in the center area hatched out...

Just a follow-up. Of the 13 eggs, 7 hatched. One boy died immediately, something with the navel. Previously, 2 exploded, 2 or 3 were clear, and the hen kicked the last two out of the nest about 2 or 3 days after the hatch. So I have six from this hatch. 4 girls, 2 boys. Now I have...

That model looks great. I just called the warehouse to ask about the dimensions of the probe. I have a Brower 845. The very helpful guy on the phone measured one for me, and the largest dimension, he says, is 9/16th, or just a hair under 5/8". My Brower vent holes are 1/2" or slightly under...

Anyone ever done this? Put in the maximum amount that fit? With the thermometer, I could fit 48. I'd like to hear of any successes or failures. Thanks. PCP

Yesterday I noticed that the door to little coop where I'm keeping my Rhodie on 12 eggs had blown open, and I found my Rhodie wandering around looking a little lost about 50 yards from her eggs. I'm not sure how long she was off the nest. She was on the edges of the main flock, and just looked...

Annaraven, No, that is not the article, (although yours is really good too) but I finally found it !!! It's on the web, but it indeed originally was published in a magazine, in Backyard Poultry. I'm so relieved ! I think I will cut and paste it so I can always have access to it. Here it is...

I looked at the thread, and no, that's not what I remember. I am looking for the article, actually, not necessarily questions. I remember that it answered everything that I wanted to know, even without knowing I wanted to know that. I really need to write these things down ! Bummer. PCP

Hi there, I'm pretty sure I read it on here, a link to an article about a woman who uses her chickens to incubate her eggs. I think it had been published in a magazine. It talks about how she keeps eggs in her frig on a rotating basis, and when a hen goes broody, she takes out a dozen and...

Thanks, that's very helpful. PCP