Here's a link to the incubator she gave us to try: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/farm-innovators-pro-series-circulated-air-incubator-with-automatic-egg-turner?solr=1&cm_vc=-10005&st=incubators%20hatching
I read the reviews, and it looks like overall, it seems to do ok, but the...
Yeah, that's why I'm torn. The incubator is where my nieces are (next door), so when I go to the farm later, I'll check and get some pictures of it.
Usually, our hatch rate is about 75% from the eggs we give to the teacher to incubate at school, so pretty good odds. :)
Delivered the eggs to the teacher this morning, and she said she was going to set them either tomorrow or Sunday. We gave her a dozen, and my mom gave her 6, so hopefully we get a good hatch! :fl
She also brought us the incubator to try. She said she's used it for 2 years in the classroom...
:lol: We have a couple of little guys that just get rides from the hens too. We're actually delivering the eggs to the teacher tomorrow instead of over the weekend, so hopefully she can set them tomorrow or Saturday instead of Monday or Tuesday. She has also offered an incubator for my nieces to...
Thank you!!!
Our silkies and little red cochin guy have no issues whatsoever with the bigger hens. We already have a few babies from them. I'm not sure about the others. They try, but I'm not sure how successful they are. :D I guess we'll find out in a few weeks!
My nieces' teacher is hatching out some eggs for her kids (to be live streamed when they start hatching), and we are donating some eggs. The chicks that hatch will be added to our flock. :) We have lots of different breeds, so these will all be cross-breeds.
We are trying to get a large...