hatching

Hey there, I’m new to this group and hoping to get some advice. I’ve been a chicken owner for a few years now, but this year my husband and I want to take it seriously and start a business. We want to sell hatching eggs, chicks, laying hens, meat birds (after they’re butchered), and same for...

Question for you chicken peeps, have you ever used MDF board for an incubator cabinet? How well does it hold up? Did you paint it on the outside? Did you line it with paneling? I'm so curious of how well this will hold up. Thanks for your knowledge.

FIRST TIME EXPERIENCING-sorry for the long post I have a flock of brahmas 3 hens and rooster, and a flock of 4, Buff and Lavender Orphington hen crosses both in separate runs/coops , and both have small coop that fits them all comfortably. In hopes of working on building a walk in pallet...

Hello all, Over the last few monts I have taken the dive I to raising my own birds. Due to location and bylaws, I decided on raising Quail, though chicken would have been my preferred. I have a cage set up in my garage with 3 tiers that are 3'x18"x1', each being about 4.5sqf per. I am just...

Hello all, I've been stressing over this egg, as I'm a new hatcher and had became concerned as I noticed more bruising has started to appear on the membrane end of the egg. I'm growing nervous, as the duck is positioned awkwardly, and I'm unaware if he/she could be malpositioned and is...

Hello all! Yesterday I had posted about this duck egg and today will be the same but a new discovery, as I noticed a new appearance of bruising on my ducklings egg (I have not taken it out of the incubator as of yet). The only thing is, it's where the membrane is (the pointy end). This...

Hello all, I was hoping to find someone who could help me understand what's going on with my Mallard duck egg, as it has yet to hatch and I noticed it some new changes today. To start off, I had gotten this egg a while ago (about roughly two weeks ago) after finding that my mallards had been...

This morning, on day 28 of my runner duck eggs incubation the power was off for around an hour. When I noticed, they felt cold (its not an insulated incubator so there was no heat in there). Have they died? :( Or do I still have hope? :) No pips seen yet either. Thank you (can't believe I got...

Hi this is our first time hatching eggs and we’ve had a couple issues one of the chicks came out like this She seems to be a pretty normal chick so far but I do worry if it’s normal especially since the side she was on of our incubator I think has some issues with ventilation that’s the side...

Hi! First time brooding. Our chicks are hatching at different times, we’re getting roughly 1 a day at the minute. We have 2 currently in the brooder, separated, as the 1 day older one was pecking the younger one. Another has hatched today and is still in the incubator. How is the best way to...

I simply don't trust the incubator's read due to using it in the past. I cannot find the thermometer I used in the past and am scrambling to figure out which one to trust. I've got two in there, one reading 99.4 and one reading 98.2. Grabbed a third meant for a terrarium and it reads 98.6 These...

I am on day 24 and there is one egg left that has not hatched yet. I candled it a couple of times and it looked like it was in the air cell, but since it wasn't hatching, I made a safety hole early on day 23. This morning, my mom decided that she should have hatched by now, and took the egg out...

So we had a powercut in school so I moved the incubator to my house on Day 17. I had to drive them for 20mins in my car and when I plugged the incubator in the temp had fallen a few degrees but I got it back up quick enough. Eggs went into lockdown then. One hatched last night Day 21 and I...

Theyre hatching! We’re 3 years into chickens and finally got a broody momma who hatched out! So far 4/9 have hatched. It is 60-75 here during the day and 40-55 during the night. I have the momma (still sitting but doing well with her babies) and her chicks in a separated brooder coop. It’s...

So I have been hatching eggs in an incubator in school. I was told by the caretaker on Friday that the power would be going out at the weekend. I had just put the eggs into lockdown Day 18 that day but I had to unplug the incubator and take them home so they wouldn't be affected by the powercut...

I came home today to our incubator at 120 degrees - the temperature knob had gotten bumped and was at the highest setting. I immediately opened the incubator and got the temp back to 100. My partner had checked it a few times throughout the day and said the temperature was good٫ but it could...

Please help! Is this an oozing rotten egg? Today is day 21 and I have three chicks that have hatched, waiting on three more. None have pipped from what I can tell. Got home from a morning out and noticed this color in the incubator tray, thought maybe the chicks had started pooping. Chick...

Today is Day 20 of my incubation and I woke up this morning to a perky chick staring at me as I was refilling the incubator with water- it scared me because I was obviously not expecting that at 4 AM! That chick is doing well and I noticed at the same time that another egg had pipped! When I...

Hi, one of my hobbies is hatching baby ducklings and chicks and selling them. I was wondering…. What are the stipulations on selling live poultry in Kansas? How many can I sell a year without have to get a permit? Thanks