incubator

There are an enormous amount of different incubators out there, and many ways to operate them. Some have the eggs laying down in the trays, in others the eggs stand with the small end down. Some roll the eggs 180 degrees and others again tip the eggs from side to side. What do you have? For...

I have been a lurker here a couple years and I live down here in Melbourne Florida. Today on the random I decided to make my first post. I was partially driven by a request from my father a couple of weeks ago. He is interested in raising and breeding chickens and I am trying to influence him...

I have a hen that frequently lays double Yolkers. My small flock is Isa Browns, so they have dark eggs that are difficult to candle at the best of times. But this egg seemed too full from the start from what I could see and based on what I can normally see in our particular eggs. It is an egg...

This morning, the incubator was left open by my brother. 8 hours later, I come home and realize what happened. The eggs were about ~5 days along, could they have survived? They’re in our kitchen so the temperature was about 65-70 degrees.

We are hatching duck eggs in our classroom in an incubator. Monday we lost a duckling who hatched prematurely (we're assuming - it came out bloody and still had a full yoke). Yesterday two more pipped and then staled. We decided to leave them and give them time. This morning my coworker arrived...

I have 5 silkie eggs in the incubator and the last time I candled was day 17 - everything seemed fine. Temp has been low a couple times and I known they prpbably just need more time but is there any reason that they wouldn't hatch?? I'm really worried

This is my first time incubating chicken eggs. I am learning (mostly the hard way) as I go. The stats: -I bought 12 Silkie hatching eggs. -12 out of 12 eggs were fertile and developed really well until day 5. -Lost 3 eggs in a styrofoam incubator malfunction on day 6. (It cooked the eggs.) -Lost...

Hi Everyone, I have been researching this, but am uncertain as to the best answer...so I thought I would ask here :). I have 4 serama eggs in the incubator now. I have 3 more I would like to add tomorrow. My original eggs will go into lockdown on May 10th. Is it a bad idea to add eggs now...

Iv'e noticed something in the new guineas, they started to lay eggs but these eggs are smaller than usual, also the older fowl stopped laying eggs! i got about 36 eggs in the incubator but will they hatch at all? please help me!

Collected the eggs, 18 really nice ones, perfect shape and size. Placed them in the incubator yesterday. Today the incubator quit. It just stopped working. I am wondering if my eggs will be lost now or do I still have time to run and buy another one tomorrow and save my clutch? Kind of heart...

Hi I was wondering if it is ok to put a dry shower towel in an incubator? I have a few emu eggs and I don't want them to move around in the incubator, and I was just wondering if it is safe and ok to put a dry shower towel in the incubator? Thank You!

Hi guys! I'm going to be attempting my first incubation hatch starting tomorrow. I have 6 eggs arriving by mail early tomorrow morning (around 6-7am) and then I'm going to sit them big side up for about 4 hours before I put them in the incubator. I have a Janoel12 incubator and have been working...

I started out with a Little Giant incubator, now I am looking to upgrade. I've heard that Brinsea incubators are some of the best, however, I keep reading reviews where some people think these two incubators are great, and others that say they don't work right. If I am spending $400-$600 I...

Hi friends, i have no experience with hatching of any birds so far, but i am very interested to learn as much as i can before i will give it a try with some of my (unlaid) eggs from my ducks. So i always read that the temperature must be kept exactly at a certain value (i remember 37.5°C, but i...

Hi I got the incubator yesterday and I'm already using it. It's the yellow incubator that holds 48 eggs. I currently only have 1 emu egg but on the incubator, I set the temperature to 36.4 Celsius which is 97.5 degrees Fahrenheit but I have a digital thermometer with a probe and its reading...

yesterday afternoon around 1pm we could hear chirping on 3 of our bantam eggs. I know there was internal pip. this morning there is not external pips. its been 19 hours. the little guys are still chirping a bit. My next problem is the chirping excitment i learned that my 9 year old has opened...

Ok, so I took advice from other websites that have said to have humidity between 50-60%. I've read here not to have it go above 55% and now it's teetering at 60%ish. I've tried lowering the humidity (I think it got too high because I turned the heat on in the room) How affected are my chicks...

It's become a difficult decision about whether I should buy or build an incubator. I've built 3 incubators now and only one worked really well. After a total fail with a major heat spike in my most recent incubator, I've decided to look at buying. But I don't know where to start or who to trust...

hello, I want to start hatching eggs and was wondering if anyone has an incubator for sale.