Incubating eggs.

[Poptart3130]

Can you incubate eggs under a heat lamp? And how successful is it?

 

[BelovedBirds]

Can you incubate eggs under a heat lamp? And how successful is it?

Not very easily. It's much harder to maintain the correct level of heat, and hard to keep humidity correct. You'd also need to hand turn the eggs several times per day

 

[Poptart3130]

Not very easily. It's much harder to maintain the correct level of heat, and hard to keep humidity correct. You'd also need to hand turn the eggs several times per day

Is the humidity an issue, or just the heat?

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

This thread may help ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/can-you-incubate-eggs-under-a-heat-lamp.1576910/

Also an article on humidity ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/incubation-humidity.73386/