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If you have found this thread you are either a newby who needs help with hatching eggs or someone with experience who is looking for new methods so below I am going to tell you the easiest way to hatch chicken eggs on a low budget the super easy way please leave comment on this thread if you have any questions or changes that I can make to to thread thanks.
2. Make an incubator or buy one
An incubator is something that you either make or buy that is well maintained enough to hatch your eggs.
If you choose to make your own I would go to the homemade incubators section of byc if you want to buy one
I would say the hovabator or little giant is a good start I would go with the hovabator because I own one and it
is well maintained so if you have a low budget then I would say make one but if you have the money buy one i
think it is really worth the money that you spent.
2. Temps and humidity settings
You want your temps to be around 99.5 for chicken eggs but you can still have a decent hatch with 97 as your temp
and also with temps as high as 101 the worse thing you can do to ruin your hatch is be too strict with temps I learned this
the hard way so if it does not go lower than 97 or does not go higher than 101 do not worry about it
Humidity
for humidity their are two methods te traditional method and the dry method
the traditional method is to keep the humidity between 45-55 and the
dry method is to not care about humidity for the first 18 days of incubation
and increase it to 65-70 at the last 3 days of incubation you also have to keep
65-70 humidity for the traditional method aswell for the last three days of incubation
also for the dry method do not let the humidity go lower than 25%.
3. Hatch date and what the heck to do!!!!
chickens take 21 days to hatch turn the eggs 2-3 times each day on day 5 you can
candle them by putting a mini flashlight under them
to check for developement. on day 18 stop turning them or if you have an
auto turner take it out and put the eggs at the bottom of the incubator.
4.Hatch day!!!!
on day 21 the eggs will hatch you can not help them or open the incubator
once they are all hatched wait 24 hours then move them to a brooder a brooder
is a container that you keep the chicks in along with a light bulb and keep the temps
around 95 for the first week leave chicks in the brooder for 60 days congrats you did it.
2. Make an incubator or buy one
An incubator is something that you either make or buy that is well maintained enough to hatch your eggs.
If you choose to make your own I would go to the homemade incubators section of byc if you want to buy one
I would say the hovabator or little giant is a good start I would go with the hovabator because I own one and it
is well maintained so if you have a low budget then I would say make one but if you have the money buy one i
think it is really worth the money that you spent.
2. Temps and humidity settings
You want your temps to be around 99.5 for chicken eggs but you can still have a decent hatch with 97 as your temp
and also with temps as high as 101 the worse thing you can do to ruin your hatch is be too strict with temps I learned this
the hard way so if it does not go lower than 97 or does not go higher than 101 do not worry about it
Humidity
for humidity their are two methods te traditional method and the dry method
the traditional method is to keep the humidity between 45-55 and the
dry method is to not care about humidity for the first 18 days of incubation
and increase it to 65-70 at the last 3 days of incubation you also have to keep
65-70 humidity for the traditional method aswell for the last three days of incubation
also for the dry method do not let the humidity go lower than 25%.
3. Hatch date and what the heck to do!!!!
chickens take 21 days to hatch turn the eggs 2-3 times each day on day 5 you can
candle them by putting a mini flashlight under them
to check for developement. on day 18 stop turning them or if you have an
auto turner take it out and put the eggs at the bottom of the incubator.
4.Hatch day!!!!
on day 21 the eggs will hatch you can not help them or open the incubator
once they are all hatched wait 24 hours then move them to a brooder a brooder
is a container that you keep the chicks in along with a light bulb and keep the temps
around 95 for the first week leave chicks in the brooder for 60 days congrats you did it.
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