Jumping in with both feet

[Appylover]

Like anything else I do it has to be gunghoe the entire way. I started out with just a few birds. Not going to have a rooster. They are aggressive and mean and no use for them. I have a 2 year old RIR. Not going to have more than 8 chickens. Seventeen birds later. Not going to have ducks. Ten babies peeping around the run and coop. Not going to have anything larger than a chicken. Two large BBW turkeys. Will just buy my chickens. Ordered an incubator today.
Now that I have the thing ordered I am doing a crash course in incubating eggs. I have looked at several of the posts here already.

1. How long can eggs be out before I can no longer use them to hatch?
2. What temps can they be subjected too before they are no good.
3. What is lock down.
4. How many times a day do they have to be turned?
5.How long to hatch?
6. Do all chicken breeds hatch at the same period?

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

http://www.poultry.msstate.edu/extension/pdf/incubation.pdf
here's a good link if interested

I think all the chicken breeds hatch out at 21 days (but keep those eggs in there for 3 days after the due date just in case). Always throw away smelly or sweating eggs.

 

[Cats Cradle]

My mixed breed bantams ALWAYS hatch one day ahead of the full size birds. This happens every time even though I set them at the same time in the same incubator.