how to hatch with a home made bator?

[Double Kindness]

My ladies are all coming into lay, easter eggers and ameracunas, and one polish and one rose comb leghorn.

Lenny is a semi-quieted rooster that is salmon favorelle x wellsummer x light brahma and has been getting it on well with my 9 lady chickens.

I was wanting to try to hatch them out, but since I'm getting just an egg a day atm, as 1 ameracuna isn't laying atm and 1 just started, but I see that her eggs are fertilized.

How should I go about doing this just one or 2 egg at a time? I'm getting the brooder ready atm for some ayum cemani hopefully very soon, as they are in my friends bator... and she didn't know what to do with the extras... and I was like I'll certainly take them!!

She has 10 more to set after these 16. I don’t think I need to invest in a bator quite yet, and have no broody hens.

How have ppl successfully done something like this, small hatching home made incubators? I don't want to mess up any rare eggs, but surely the eggs from my current flock would possibly bear interesting results?

 

[kada6305]

I made a homemade incubator from a Styrofoam cooler. I know the first hatch rate is pretty low. We put 6 in there at day 10 we will candle and throw away any who aren't developing, with blood rings, etc. We are only on day 2. I plan on having 3 hatch, but we shall see. You can collect eggs over 10 days. Good luck!

 

[donrae]

You need to get ahold of gimmie birdies! She makes small, easy to use incubators. I know she's posted about them quite a bit, and you should do a search on her username. She did a nice post on a thread of mine here

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/906342/fully-formed-chicks-with-large-air-cells-not-hatching

that pretty much walks you through it. She's hatched a lot of birds this way, might be right up your alley.

 

[Double Kindness]

Thanks! I will click on that link!