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  1. ElimAcres

    What is too hot/cold????

    Hi all, Newbie here to hatching eggs with a bator (so much less worry/fuss with a broody. 😃). I'm on my second hatch and was wondering what temperature is too hot or too cool for a forced air incubator? I have the Hovabator 2370 with an automatic turner. I just set the eggs this morning and...
  2. Bator2020

    Bator2020

    To satisfy and encourage my daughter’s love for birds, we decided to let her have chickens. We talked about the different options on getting them, and we settled on building our own incubator and hatching eggs. I thought that building an incubator would be a way to introduce engineering to my...
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  3. TehLizardKing

    Homemade Hatcher

    Hey y’all, I’ve got a few different sets of eggs in my inky atm and will be removing them clutch by clutch to let them hatch in a separate one so as to avoid drowning younger eggs and covering them in hatch goo. I don’t usually do this but has postal services meant my shipped eggs arrived days...
  4. L

    Lockdown- Silkie Eggs in Genesis 1588

    Hello Backyard Chicken Folk! Well, we have almost made it to lockdown with 9 Silkie Eggs. Temps in the Genesis have been inconsistant but ive been watching it close and making sure it stays within range. The problem is the Bator thermostat is off, so im monitoring with 3 other thermometers that...
  5. Lifeiseasy

    Hatching Failure. What to do Next?

    I currently have 15 RIR eggs under a broody on about day 8. I just candled them with our new Brinsea high powered candler only to find that not a single one had veins or any other definite sign of growth :hit. My guess is that they were unfertilized due to my rooster not feeling his best. The...
  6. Jayson_Black

    Question on the difference in movement over days

    Im a first time incubator-upperer. lol. (thats a joke son!) and I think I first saw/noticed movement on day 6 while candling. They were oscilating pretty quickly, maybe 3 to 4 'jiggles' Per Second. ("Jiggles" for lack of a better word to describe the movement I was oberserving). One in...
  7. Leaguinea

    Candling during incubation

    I am curious about candling eggs during incubation. How do you candle the eggs without allowing them to cool too much? Is it harmful to them to be picked out of the bator and candled and then air hole marked before replacing in the incubator? Does this temp fluctuation affect them? and also how...
  8. Leaguinea

    Hatching Guinea keets... Questions

    I have a Bator of Guinea eggs not all are viable but some are. I locked down Friday evening (day25) and then had my first hatch Saturday morning (day26) it hatched within 40min of pipping the shell. Second keet was out of the shell this morning. Q 1. How long can I leave them in the bator...
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