HATCH RATE

[Sharisr32]

Sounds like your doing very well !

 

[hsm5grls]

First time I tried to hatch eggs, I had a heat lamp and a cardboard box. I hid this contraption in the library/attac/bonus room and flipped eggs 2x a day when nobody was looking. Put in I think 10 or 12 eggs, hatched I think 8, but had to cull two. So 50% hatch rate if I started with 12 as I ended up with 6 chicks.

Granted... this was a cardboard box, I was oh 13, and had no real good way to keep track of temperatures and didn't think about humidity. That was just before I found the original BYC while on a old 56k dial up connection. A lot has changed on BYC since I first saw it.

Wow that's pretty good for a lamp and a card board box.​

 

[arlee453]

14 eggs in, 12 started to develop, 10 hatched.

Homemade rubbermaid cooler incubator - see thread here:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=19675