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Is the flock raiser O.K. to feed adult birds? I know when I have broody hens raising chicks, she always eats the medicated chick starter without problems. I did add the black oil sunflower seeds, which the birds love. I think at this point, my plan is to first worm the flock, wait the ten...

The bleach was probably 50:50 but I rinsed well after sterilizing. It did get dried out before using. No air freshener and the incubator was kept in an air conditioned room. I have just one rooster who is a little over a year old and who is not related to any of the hens. All the hens are at...

Every chick that hatched out survived for a couple of hours, then died. Very sad. I checked Tractor Supply today and all of their adult chicken feed was 16% protein. I decided to throw a handful of sunflower seeds into the shavings at night, instead of the scratch to see if that helps raise...

I feed Nutrena Nature Wise Layer Feed 16% Crumbles purchased from Tractor Supply, with 1-2 small handfuls of scratch thrown down into the shavings every day, plus any veggie scraps from the kitchen. With this being a new incubator, maybe it was offgasing fumes that I can't smell?

Thank you for your thoughts. I drilled three 3/8" holes in the plastic, one in the front, one in the back, and one on a side. I think that was adequate ventilation. Brand new incubator, so no other hatches took place in it (plus I wiped it down with a bleach water solution before using)...

Well, two more chicks hatched out, were up and moving around pretty well. Dried off mostly. Had to leave for a few hours. Came home, one was dead and the other was on its way to dying. They never even got out of the incubator. I am at a loss as to what happened to these chicks. They hatched...

The humidity jumped up to 80-85% after the chick hatched. Is this O.K.? The poor thing is already moving over to the side of the bator I am on when I make broody hen sounds. Hopefully, he gets a buddy.

One more hatched out, and the other one is in the process. Hopefully, they live long enough to at least dry off! Really hope to get at least two out of the remaining 5, so they will have a buddy.

Here is the Amazon link to the incubator I purchased: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GO06MJ2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 The reviews on this was showing 4 stars. It also came with a hydrometer and an egg candler. Still have 5 eggs in the incubator. Two have pipped as...

Mountainbeauty, thanks for the link on candling eggs. It is very helpful.

I bought this incubator because it is small, only holding at most 9 eggs. I don't have a need to hatch out more than that at a time, so I thought the bigger incubators would be a waste. This one is pretty well rated on Amazon, and I really don't have a problem with it per se. It is just that...

Well, two more eggs have pipped. I did open it up and remove the dead chicks and shells, so maybe something will survive. Keep your fingers crossed.

With this being my first hatch, I didn't feel comfortable opening it to try to assist the malpositioned chick. I guess I should have opened it up just long enough to remove the chick that was stuck, but was afraid with one of the other eggs pipped. Before setting the eggs, I used a separate...

I calibrated the temperature with a thermometer before setting the eggs. I just wonder if I should have risked opening the incubator to remove the malpositioned one, but it was still alive when I went to bed, and I didn't want to risk opening up and dropping the humidity. Kind of a darned if...

My incubator is a Janoel 12, with a humidikit for humidity. Following the manual instructions, I set the humidity level to 45-50%. Temps stayed constant at 100. Tried candling at 7 and 14 days. Then I read an article on BYC indicating that my air cells were too small, so I went with ambient...

This is my first experience trying to hatch out my own eggs. It has been a steep learning curve! On day 20, two eggs pipped, one on the small end of the egg. The one that was improperly positioned had a fairly good size hole made, so I decided not to open the bator to do anything with it...