- May 25, 2014
- 1
- 0
- 7
Last week, my husband and I were mowing at our ranch east of Rapid City, South Dakota. I was on a 4-wheeler with pull-behind mower. I realized I had gone over a grouse hen sitting on a nest of 15 eggs. I just clipped her wing, but she died soon after. I boxed the eggs up and took them home with us. The next day I purchased an incubator at Runnings. With the little research I was able to do in a short amount of time, I marked them with an X and O on opposite sides and have been turning them day and night. I have kept their temperature at 99.5° and have also maintained some level of humidity. A few nights ago, I attempted to candle one of the eggs but dropped it when I couldn't handle the box, the flashlight and the egg. Good and bad, it was a viable egg. I need to find out how far along the eggs are in the incubation process but don't know how to go about it. I found the BYC website in my research and I'm looking forward to learning more about this process. My husband and I also have a farm south of Chamberlain, South Dakota, where we have a shelter belt for pheasant habitat. Learning this process will assist with increasing the pheasant population on our land.
and Welcome To BYC! Good luck with the eggs. You might want to try posting in one of the Other Backyard Poultry forums, don't think there is a Grouse, one but do have a Partridge and Quail one. 
