incubating-hatching-eggs

Hi all. I'm a chicken/duck/goose newbie. I started my new hobby about 2 years ago with some chickens that my mom gave me (a mama hen with her 3 babies). After the I initial 4 birds I decided that I wanted to hatch my own eggs... I also homeschool my 3 children so egg hatching is par for the...

Hi, an egg rolled under the hole where I add water in my incubator. I didn't see it and water dropped on it - about 20 drops. The other eggs have hatched and that one is not pipping. It was thriving before lock down. Any thoughts?

We choose to incubate over broody hen obviously. We have more confidence using a controlled method although we can't always comfortably fit every quality inspected egg candidate into the bator. So the balance of eggs give some of our broody girls purpose. Just got done with another hatch. We are...

I just started my first batch of incubating on the 7th (a dozen lavender Orpington eggs and a dozen blue laced red wyandotte eggs) in some homemade forced air styrofoam incubators. So far the temps are stabilizing really well (one at around 100 and the other at 99.5) But my humidity is low (I...

I am always looking for improvements as far as increased hatch rates. No matter if it will be performed by my trusty broody hens or my climate controlled incubators. No matter the method I choose, I feel that if my eggs are stored correctly while I am waiting for enough inventory to place into...

So, we are new this whole thing, but I had a australorp go broody on me so we decided to give her a couple fertile bantom eggs to hatch. All has gone very well to this point. We have her separated and she is a devoted mom. She only leaves the nest once a day to peck around the yard, get a drink...

My cyuga duck (I know I misspelled ) hatched 8 babies but now is no longer sitting on her eggs. They are cold. I brought them in and candled. I only kept the viable eggs. Some are chirping but very cold. If I put them in the incubator will they be okay? This is the first time my duck has...

Greeting to all the Fowl Farmers out there. My name is Carol and I live in Montana. I am new at hatching out eggs in my incubator. I joined BYC a year ago but I haven't visited this increadible site very often. I raise sheep and have a few chickens, 1 Peacock, 2 geese, 2 turkeys, 1 guinea, 3...

Help! My incubator humidity dropped and this guy internally popped two days ago. He is still giving me small movements. I broke open the shell to give assistance and have been wetting the membrane for the past 8 hours with no further luck. What should I do now? Is it too soon still and he wasn't...

I have an incubator with 18 eggs and they are starting to hatch today. We decided to incubate the eggs ourselves so that our hens would continue to lay eggs. As it happens, one of our hens (who ironically is the mother of the eggs we are incubating), went broody two days ago. Instead of...

I found 6 duck eggs and made a home made incubator and now all my thoughts are consumed by these eggs I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't own chickens, or ducks, or have a farm. I have 10 kids and two dogs lol Please please help! Found a dead duck that just laid the eggs and I made this...

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