Hatching chicks

[chick aholic]

HEY I am new to BYC and I have a question for yall, my first try and only try of incubating so far in the 9200 Little Giant incubator I put in 38 eggs I had 25 healthy thriving little chicks which isn't to bad. lets get back to the question ok, im curious to find out whats yall hatch rates are how many usually hatch for u. thanks have a good day and just to put it out there im a chicken person but on youtube look up 50 ducks in a hot tube his channel is the bomb.

 

[kim27]

Our hatch rate hasn't been very good so far. We are at about a 5% hatch rate

. Trying to improve on that though.

 

[chick aholic]

Kim27 how do u incubate eggs maybe I can give u some tips do u have a turner

 

[kim27]

Kim27 how do u incubate eggs maybe I can give u some tips do u have a turner

Thanks for the offer. My wife does most of the incubating. I suspect that there are hot spots in our incubator. Our first hatch we had 1 chic. It could be related to shipping eggs. Our second hatch we got 7 out 41. We had a few mutations, so I suspect heating problems. We have an egg turner.

With all that said, I've been working on making a home made incubator to see if we can get a better hatch rate in a different environment, as I don't trust our current incubator.

 

[chick aholic]

What is y'all temp. I usually keep mine at 100-101.5 no higher and humidity at 45 and the last 3 days raise it to 60-65 and I have a home made incubator that my grandpa made I hatched out many chicks out of it I can show u pic and give u the dementions if u want

 

[kim27]

We are keeping the temp at 99.5, or round about there.

I would love to see pictures of what you are using, as I like to see what everyone else is using.

Here is the incubator we've been using.




And here is the first version of the one I've built. I've got a thread on called Temperature Logger and Buzzer. I should probably start a new thread for it though, since isn't just a temperature logger and buzzer anymore.

 

[chick aholic]

For my Little Giant I use a sponge like this and soak it a little every day and on your incubator raise the temp to 101 bcs the cold spots egg won't hatch under 99 do raise it to that and for hot spots its perfect

 

[chick aholic]

11"L. 10"W. 61/2" H
I make my out of wood bcs in styer foam heat isn't constant and in wood it is

 

[chick aholic]

25 watt and I took the cap of a coloring box and hot glued wire on top so I put water in it

 

[chick aholic]

I cut the bottom off a egg Caron and placed it on top of the coloring box put each egg on its side and flip 3 times a day

and before u putt eggs in put a thermometer in and measure the tempature if its to hot open the door a slit