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DO THESE THINGS EVER STOP POOPING!!!!! I've cleaned out the water bowl 100 times!! Even elevated it and they still poop in it!!! Oh well, looks like i've got 2 guys and 2 gals out of my first hatch. 7 eggs, 4 hatched and are healthy, 2 stopped growing but were very far along, and one must...

Out of the incubator and in the brooder and they love it. Eating drinking and playing. 4 out of 7 are happy and healthy. One died mid hatch and two are day 25 no cracks yet.

At what point do you give up hope? I've got 2 more eggs with no sign of hatching and it's day 25.

Well they are here!! So far 3 have completely hatched and are running around the incubator, still wet but starting to look like little fluff balls! Two more have "pipped" I think that is the right turn, they have a hole and cracks starting to form, I can see them stick their beaks out and move...

He'll prolly bring me eggs once a week because of our work schedule. So I could add a few each Friday? Or could I just eat the eggs he brings me? I don't know the "rules" for how long an egg can set warm and still be good to eat or hatch.

I don't know if this is the right place or not! I've borrowed a hovabator 1602 from a church friend and a coworker is bringing me a clutch of New Hampshire red eggs tonight. It'll be my first experience with chickens but I've gathered everything up to make a makeshift brooder in my shop after...