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Finally gave in and bought an incubator. Looking for silkie eggs for my first incubation. Don't need any fancy ones, these will be spoiled pets (and hopefully snuggly lap chooks). Thank you!

if I hatch 2 batches of duck eggs in the same incubator a week apart, what do I do during lockdown? I'm going to raise the humidity but what about turning the younger eggs. My automatic turner is either the whole incubator or not at all and I've been hand turning thus far. A second incubator is...

this is my first time incubating eggs laying down the entire time. What should a candle of it look like at day 12? My egg is developing but to me it looks strange. I don't have a picture but can someone post pictures of yours at this more developed stage so I can compare. It looks like the yolk...

I have an egg in the incubator that Never developed but I left it just in case. It's sibling of the same age is pretty far along. So today is day 13 and I decided it was definitely rime to call it quits on the dud. So I candle to make sure I'm removing the correct egg and there is a ring of red...

So our duck has been laying eggs in her nest over the past week and a half. The last times she laid in this same nest something took her eggs so since it was the same nest in the same spot we decided we would take her eggs in and incubate them. We've been replacing them with golf balls so she...

Hi! My name is David and I was hoping to get into raising a quail as a pet. My biggest issue is trying to stick to a budget, but I really want to incubate the eggs myself. I saw lots of tutorials for home incubators that are made of Styrofoam and lamps, but I feel like that's all a bad route. If...

This baby made it to 23 days but now I'm wondering if it didn't survive because it was a double Yolker?

We just finished incubating 2 eggs that were fertilized but didn't make it to the end but then that same day those 2 were appeared to hatch we found another egg in her nest and put it in the incubator. It never developed any. About 2 weeks after that we found 4 more in her nest. Today thay are...

I got 24 hatching eggs from a friend of ours on July 16. All they told me is that they were not incubated for a couple days before she sent them here by car. None came broken, they all looked pretty nice. Since I don't have an incubator, I sat them under my broody hen. Now, only 17 eggs remain...

hey all! I am currently incubating two duck eggs. One is not looking promising but the other one should hatch by the end of this week. Well my duck just laid another egg and I'm thinking about incubating it but if it hatches it will be one month younger than my current one. Will they get along...

Help! I am incubating duck eggs for the first time. I went to start lockdown but one of the eggs was an early bloomer and already had an external pip. By the time we turned off the rotator, filled the humidity wells, and put the egg back in the incubator it had been out for about 3 minutes. It...

Just have to share my excitement! my grandpa cut the field of alfalfa early one morning and we found a nest of eggs, waited til that night, but the hen never showed, it's by my sister's house so she watched them all day and then in the evening showed up at my house with 9 eggs. I candled them...

I love incubating eggs, and i did once about 60 eggs but the result was almost like 50%, so this is my second but the eggs are not pipping its been day 24 now, and im stuck i dont know what to do because i've incubated 90 eggs this time...any help will much be appriciated. Im using chinese...

Momma abondoned her best after 2 days with her 3 new babies. I heard peeps from her best and saw a half zipped egg and 5 more eggs with no action. I guess she couldn’t wait any longer. I grabbed the eggs and put them in my incubator , where I have a dizen eggs at 14 days. The chick hatched...

Hey, This is my first time trying to hatch eggs but I need an incubator. Originally I wanted my silkie to hatch them for me but I really do not want her going broody right now. What are some good incubators on the market that are easy and not expensive? Also any tips for hatching eggs would...

I’ve hatched chickens and quail for 10 years with success rate in the 90s. But this will be my first time hatching Muscovy. Make sure I have it right. 99.5, 35 days. Now as far as humidity I run my chicken eggs at 25% and really just go by air cells to make sure it’s goid then at lock down I go...

so I haven't quite found a topic like what I'm looking for. My duck is laying eggs. She is on day 8 but yesterday all of the eggs were eaten. This morning she laid another egg in the same nest and I would like to save it since predators now know where the nest is. My question is, since she is...

I have some pet ducks. Every year they lay eggs and every year they are eaten by foxes, raccoons, Hawks, eagles, snakes, turtles, and any number of other things and I'm sick and tired of it. I believe her clutch was taken just last night but I was out of town. So I have a couple questions...

I was wondering if any of you all had some funny incubating or hatching stories... I remember when I was given an incubator for christmas 2 yrs ago.... I was super excited to give it a go and got some fertile eggs from someone... set my incubator up... right next to my bed. It was awful when...

New in box, unopened Brinsea Mini II Advance Asking $150 OBRO Taken from manufacturers website: The popular Mini Advance incubator has been improved to include a room temperature alarm in addition to the existing incubator temperature alarm and the convenience of an external water top-up...