First Try No Luck!

[thudson]

There's an Easter hatch-a-long too if you want to join in.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-9th-annual-byc-easter-hatchalong.1220770/

Now this is cool too! I sure am glad and proud to be a member of such a fine group of people as we all are here at the BYC. The help everyone gets and give is just truly AWESOME!!

 

[JaeG]

I have just the website you need (love sharing this one). It's brilliant and you can follow along with what is happening in your eggs every day, accompanied by a candling photo:
https://www.raising-happy-chickens.com/incubation-day-1.html

Shipped eggs can be delicate due to rough handling during transit but if they are your own eggs they are tough enough to handle more frequent candling than the standard days of 7, 10 and just before lockdown.

 

[Lostchicken]

I have not bought a bator yet, but am doing a lot of reading. I want to hatch eggs to get chicks to replenish my flock and to sell. My budget says no $500.00 units.

 

[thudson]

I have not bought a bator yet, but am doing a lot of reading. I want to hatch eggs to get chicks to replenish my flock and to sell. My budget says no $500.00 units.

I couldn't afford that either. But I did find some small highly rated incubators for about 70 dollars. You only put 9 eggs at a time in it. But it was highly rated at 4.5 stars. It is the Magicfly Automatic Incubator. I can't wait to try it out.

 

[Skipper81]

I might order a new incubator today mine is homemade

 

[Art_plus_chickens]

I might order a new incubator today mine is homemade

Cool! How do you make them?

 

[Skipper81]

I used 5 gallon bucket full of water then put a smaller bucket on top as incubator
With a separator to hold it

 

[Skipper81]

 

[Skipper81]

Messed the pics up loading them lol
I'm on day 20 so we will see how this works but I'm really looking to order a small in that's cheap
Lots of reviews on the cheap ones say they don't hatch eggs lol

 

[Art_plus_chickens]

I used 5 gallon bucket full of water then put a smaller bucket on top as incubator
With a separator to hold it
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Sweet! What's your hatch rates, are they pretty good? I'm wanting to hatch my own eggs, but my hubby says no more money on chicken stuff haha! I could get away with this!


I'm excited to follow your hatch @thudson