Hatching chicks

[kim27]

Nice, I like the little incubator.

 

[chick aholic]

turner no fan and here is the 35 chicks I hatched a week ago

 

[chick aholic]

Sorry 25

 

[kim27]

Nice. They all look nice and healthy.

I think the wife and I are addicted, so I'm we'll keep trying and slowly figuring this stuff out. ( 1 hatching was enough to get us hooked )

 

[chick aholic]

If I could I would hatch chicks all year. But I have school and there isn't many people around here who want chickens exsides my feed store they take my bunnies and chicks and give me food for my other animals I call it a trade well good lunch with hatching chicks and what types of chickens do u have

 

[chick aholic]

Also when u get your eggs put the eggs big side up in the carton and leave it there for 24 hours so the air sac can rise u get much better hatch rates doing that and u can also do the dry method for incubating that help to

 

[Deadra]

How long can you store the eggs before incubating and if I can store them how should they be stored. I have 6 hens and 1 rooster only two lay eggs right now so I don't get very many eggs at a time. I'm at about 3 to 4 eggs a week.

 

[chick aholic]

The longest u can do is 7 days to get a better hatch rate don't clean them and put them in a carton and flip each egg 3 times a day until they r ready for incubation the way I do it is I put them in a cartoon lift the cartoon up get a cup, place the cup under the cartoon on 1 of the sides and just turn the cartoon if this sounds complicated I will draw u a picture

 

[chick aholic]

sorry I don't really draw good

 

[Deadra]

That so

sorry I don't really draw good