incubating chicken eggs

  1. B

    Can anyone help me please I’m worried

    Hi everyone I’m new to this I’m wondering if anyone can help me .. I’m currently hatching chicks I had 5 eggs that I new where fertile from 6 I went into lock down day 18 and my first chick hatched day 20 I’m now nearly day 22 and I’m starting to worry the others aren’t coming the humidity is...
  2. A Simple Guide to Hatching Chicken Eggs

    A Simple Guide to Hatching Chicken Eggs

    Hatching Chickens can be a fun and educational experience for the entire family. How cool is it to watch a small egg turn into a tiny life! And of course when these chicks grow up, your understanding of chickens and their life cycle can be quite rewarding, something you will never forget. So how...
  3. Incubating Chicken Eggs in a Still Air Incubator

    Incubating Chicken Eggs in a Still Air Incubator

    Incubating Chicken Eggs in a Still Air incubator If you want to hatch chicken eggs but you’re not sure how, this article will help you with the basics. Whether they are from a supplier or eggs from your own back yard. This guide will help you get started. When you have the eggs...
  4. tjo804

    please help Chick is Over Due, will this egg hatch?

    This egg is on day 25, it was moving at lock down but I have not seen movement does it still look viable to anyone?
  5. kitey1345

    Fluctuating Humidity

    Hi! So I have only had my eggs set for 2 days so far. I live in QLD Aus where it's winter at the moment so it's fairly dry. My issue is that my incubator is fluctuating between mid 40% up to mid 60%. I currently have some rice in there for when it gets too high and may crack open the box which...
  6. ThreeAcreFarm

    Incubating - Day 17

    Hey fam!!! This is my first go around incubating eggs. I currently have 8 in a self-turning incubator that I purchased at our local Agway. I have been mainting the humidity, and the temperature always seems to be exactly right! I decided to candle my eggs this evening and 6 of them appear to be...
  7. Trinitydraco

    What happens with double yolk eggs?

    So my Isa Browns have had enough time to start laying regularly and my RIR rooster is mating them. (yolks have bullseye) I am planning on setting some with my next batch of eggs but my girls lay double yolks quite often. I don't think a day goes by where I don't get at least 1. So my question is...
  8. gokuchickey

    Stinking sweaty eggs

    A few days ago, my mother bought me some fertilized chicken eggs, I have 3 roosters and 7 hens. We had over 20 eggs and my mother wanted them to hatch so we put them in a basket hoping for one of the hens to foster/incubate, sadly none of the hens did until the next day, so the eggs were sitting...
  9. BabySweetsTurkeys

    When to move chicks from incubator to brooder

    I have 4 hatched chicks in my Magicfly Janoel 12 so there’s not much room. There running around and starting to peck at each other. They’re not fully dry but for the most part they are. There’s still one egg pipping and I don’t know what to do. Should I move them to the brooder so they have more...
  10. BabySweetsTurkeys

    External pip but no hatch and pip at wrong end

    I have 6 chicken eggs incubating at the moment. It’s day 20, and my one egg has externally pipped at 7 A.M. and it’s now 11:17 am and it hasn’t hatched. How long after an external pip can it take for them to hatch? He was chirping a lot earlier and now chirps here and there. I also noticed...
  11. BabySweetsTurkeys

    End of day 17 lockdown?

    I won’t be home at all tomorrow and was wondering if it’s okay to start lockdown late day 17 or 14 hours early day 18?
  12. BabySweetsTurkeys

    Air cells day 17-18

    Do my aircells look correct size wise?
  13. BabySweetsTurkeys

    Humidity help, emergency!

    I have 2 Hydrometers in my incubator, a magicfly one and a repltile tank one, and both read 70% at day 10. I then checked my incubator and there is literally only about 1/4 teaspoon of water in the bottom. How is it reading that high when so little water is in it? Or is 1/4 teaspoon to much? Is...
  14. BabySweetsTurkeys

    Blood ring??? Day 7

    I already lost one egg, now I’m down to 6 so I’m hoping this isn’t a blood ring. All other eggs have movement but I didn’t see anything in this one. :( I just recently loss 4 eggs at day 20 from my old incubators heat element going out so I hope this isn’t a blood ring. :hit:barnie
  15. BabySweetsTurkeys

    Magicfly incubator temp help!

    I recently bought a forced air magicfly janoel 12 incubator and im currently incubating 7 eggs. 4 barred rock, and 3 Easter Eggers. The incubator was keeping a pretty good temp but I’m on day 5, and it wants to fluctuate. I have 4 thermometers in it. The digital accurite reads 100 steady, the 2...
  16. StarnesCoveFarm

    Hatching & Incubating Eggs Using Janoel 12 Incubator

    Hi, I purchased the Janoel 12 Incubator to use to hatch out some of my chicken eggs and my Pekin duck eggs. I tried to read the manual, looks like I need a NASA engineer degree to understand it!!!!! This will be my first time using an incubator and I would hate to lose any chicks or ducks over...
  17. M

    Advice needed. Did I accidentally kill my last egg?

    This is my second time being successful at hatching eggs. I am using a mini Brinsea incubator. I had 6 fertile eggs and five have hatched. Two hatched yesterday (one the night before) and then three more last night. I opened the incubator and took the chickens out after doing my best to make...
  18. W

    Wazine and Incubating

    I have been reading some of the forums and decided to join the group. We have kept backyard chickens for 12 years now. We have had a few experiences over the years with illness, egg bound hens, predators, etc. Recently I have been reading about roundworms and treating with Wazine. I haven't done...
  19. W

    Wazine and incubation

    I have been reading some of the forums and decided to join the group. We have kept backyard chickens for 12 years now. We have had a few experiences over the years with illness, egg bound hens, predators, etc. Recently I have been reading about roundworms and treating with Wazine. I haven't...
  20. Sunflowerchickens

    3 day old embryo stuck to shell?

    Hi there! I recently purchased my first ever incubator, a Brinsea mini Advance ii. After putting eggs in, for the first two days, I did not realize that the automatic turner (which turns the eggs every 45 minutes), was not running long enough to completely rotate the top down to the bottom and...
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