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I don't think you should feel bad about this. You have good intentions. Now if you were playing mailbox baseball with your chicks then I'd be yeah, you are a bad person. Sometimes you just need a bit of perspective. The truth is we're here to figure out how to live on Earth spiritually...

Thanks!

They say you want the humidity boost on the last few days of incubating. But a lot of us are using homemade incubators. So is this where you guys got the idea to mist spray the eggs? And how often do you do that? Once a day? Once every four hours? etc..?

Well for you to get away with it while having guineas?! WOW! Those are supposed to be the ones that never shut up lol.

Although, please bear in mind, you guys might have different makers of hot pads. So your settings might not be the same. Hope I don't sound like a jerk, but wanted to help you avoid trouble.

Is there any trick to keeping your neighbors from noticing that many birds? That's what I'd like to know also lol. I'm particularly interested in any tricks for urban chicken/duck farming to keep people from noticing.

That sounds totally fun to try though! What a cool experience! Some of the videos I've been looking at people are using store bought eggs also, and getting hatch rates. (They are supposed to be infertile. So it does have a higher fail rate than fertile eggs.) But I would try this pretty soon...

Sounds reasonable. I applaud your discipline. Would you say the success rate goes up by checking it once an hour? And is there such a thing as checking it too much also? Or not enough? The homemade boxes I wonder if some of them will overheat.

Do light bulbs regulate better than heat pads? It seems like a lot of videos of self made stuff show light bulbs. I didn't even see any on heat pads. Thanks for your comments and experience.

The heat pad should probably last, as long as you aren't getting it wet. If the heat pad gets wet then who knows what would happen. But just having a small amount of weight on the heat pad shouldn't hurt it, because they would have to anticipate making them be able to endure people laying on...