We built an incubator, me having left my Octagon 20 in the UK when I moved here and not wanting to shell out $300 for a new one.
I can post pictures, etc, if anyone is interested. It has a max of 43 eggs, and auto-turns.
We bought 24 Buff Orpinton eggs from an Ebay trader. 6 were broken on arrival. The guy offered to replace them.
We set 18 eggs. At 7 days, 1 was clear and 2 had blood rings and were removed.
4 hours into day 21 the first one hatched. Over the next 15 hours, 8 more popped out. I helped only 1 which, despite the 75% humidity, had stuck to the shell trying to push out. The following morning the 10th hatched.
We opened the remaining eggs. We had 3 dead in shell, and 2 that had died some time prior to fully formed.
It seems that of the 18 we set, only 13 were ever going to hatch, and of those, 10 did.
Generally we were pleased, what with the incubator being a home design and build.
See Pics Here
I can post pictures, etc, if anyone is interested. It has a max of 43 eggs, and auto-turns.
We bought 24 Buff Orpinton eggs from an Ebay trader. 6 were broken on arrival. The guy offered to replace them.
We set 18 eggs. At 7 days, 1 was clear and 2 had blood rings and were removed.
4 hours into day 21 the first one hatched. Over the next 15 hours, 8 more popped out. I helped only 1 which, despite the 75% humidity, had stuck to the shell trying to push out. The following morning the 10th hatched.
We opened the remaining eggs. We had 3 dead in shell, and 2 that had died some time prior to fully formed.
It seems that of the 18 we set, only 13 were ever going to hatch, and of those, 10 did.
Generally we were pleased, what with the incubator being a home design and build.
See Pics Here
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