incubating eggs chicks hatching

I'm new to hatching chicks. I made my own homemade incubator. I tested it for many days prior to ensure I can get a stable temperature. I have a 60-watt bulb, with a small fan placed in the incubator, along with a pan for water. The eggs are placed on a rack sitting in a plastic container with...

Can the temperature of the incubator determine the sex of the chicks?

Hello everyone! I live in Northern Maine (I see New Brunswick Canada on my way to work in the morning), and last fall I started raising chickens strictly for eggs. I bought 3 barred rocks and 3 silver lace chicks and they spent their winter in my enclosed coop using the deep litter method...

I’m feeling sad & concerned. Our hen hatched 4 chicks, I was able to introduce the first incubator chick hatched a few days later with no problem. Yesterday I tried to introduce another newly hatched chick and the hen is pecking at it, she won’t accept it at all & May have actually pecked a hole...

So I have chickens that are 6 months old just laying eggs. We have 6 hens and 1 rooster and I’m scared our hens are laying fertilized eggs and I don’t want to eat them. So I bought an incubator that isn’t here till February 5 and I don’t know if they will sit on the eggs so I keep taking them...

So after reading so many threads and forums about the super strict guidelines for incubating eggs I finally started my first batch! I bought a forced air incubator from TSC and put 40 eggs in it over the course of three days. I opened the incubator many times to check progress and to replenish...