How to incubate eggs!

[sgps]

Hi,

This thread is going to be about incubating eggs, chicken to turkey and even ducks! Share your knowledge from start to finish and don't be afraid to tell personal triumphs and failures, we all learn from are own mistakes but we learn more from others.
Thank you!

 

[Michael OShay]

Welcome to BYC. Glad you decided to join our flock. I've used the HovaBator styrofoam incubators with auto egg turners and circulating fans many times to incubate chicken eggs and have always had a good hatch rate with them.

 

[drumstick diva]

This is the new member introduction thread. You may want to start an incubation thread in a different forum. Welcome to BYC.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Hi

Glad you could join the flock! You may be best staring a thread in the incubating section. Here is the link ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/5/incubating-amp-hatching-eggs

I do love incubating, it's lots of fun and very rewarding. I've had my fair share of failures and I've also had lots of highs. Seeing the new chick emerge is great and a true miracle. Here are a few pics of my previous hatches, I'm afraid untill Spring my incubator is packed away.

Enjoy BYC

 

[sunflour]

glad you have joined us.

I have never incubated but would like to sometime in the future.

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Welcome to BYC! I'm glad you joined us!

 

[sgps]

Thank you for your kind words and cute photos.
I've never really had success with my still air incubator out of 120 eggs I got 3 chicks and 60 of the eggs were from a hatchery I flowed the instructions to the finest detail and I have tried this many times but it doesn't work! Do you have any suggestion I could use? Thanks!

 

[N F C]

There are several articles in the Learning Center about incubating and hatching eggs. Here's a link to get you to them (if you haven't seen them yet):
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-and-raising-chicks

Good luck to you in your future attempts!

 

[Michael OShay]

Thank you for your kind words and cute photos.
I've never really had success with my still air incubator out of 120 eggs I got 3 chicks and 60 of the eggs were from a hatchery I flowed the instructions to the finest detail and I have tried this many times but it doesn't work! Do you have any suggestion I could use? Thanks!

You're welcome. Some of the other BYC members may have had some success with a still air incubator, but I tried using a still air incubator and turning the eggs by hand a few times and never had any of the eggs hatch. It's why I put out a little more money and got one with forced air circulation and auto egg turning and it made a huge difference.

 

[trailrider330]

Welcome to the BYC flock! We are glad you joined us!