ways to incubate eggs other than bator

[chickmaniac250]

hi my daughter wants to hatch a chick without using a brooder and she would really love to hatch it herself.......i would really like to have her try and do it cause she might learn something.
the egg is a ameracauna,isa brown x so that soounds fair enough for egg laying breeds........
if you have any suggestions that would help that would b gr8 thnx


chickmaniac250







p.s. we have been warming up blankets and putting them around the egg for the past day and i am going to candle again tonight(day 2 10-03-20)

 

[kandyg_99]

I have never heard of using anything other than a broody hen or incubator to hatch an egg. Your best bet is to go ahead and buy an incubator or use one of the plans on this wonderful site to build one.

 

[Namble]

It is best to just use an incubator for many reasons. An incubator holds near perfect temps and humidity. Useing warm blankets isn't consistent. So your best bet is to use an Incubator. Just search ebay and find one on there.

 

[joe17]

Well, I really hate to burst your bubble

but there is no way you could hatch an egg without a bator or broody hen! lol, with blankets, there is no humidity and no constant temp. If you use a bator, your daughter will still learn just as much from just using blankets. And if you use blankets or other methods, your daughter will be disappointed because I can almost guarantee they won't hatch.

Why don't you get a bator like the r com 3 egg bator or the small dome incubator. I hope you find something soon!!!!!!!

I know that finding an incubator may be frustrating

Just google small incubators

Good luck

 

[Daidohead]

Anything you can find that will hold 100* and 50% or so humidity fairly even for 21 days would work. an incubator is the easiest to control environment that we humans have devised to replicate the underside of a hen. I have heard stoies of eggs being hatched in a wood box set next to the wood stove, electric frying pan, electric croc pot ......I myself had eggs that had been tossed into a compost pile hatch. Unfortunatly I didn't know they were there and just chanced upon them a few days too late. If you can duplicate the environment they need, it will work. Good luck to ya.

 

[bel]

There was a section in the "guide to better hatching" on old incubating practice, where ladies put eggs in their tops (sounds like the uncomfortable era of people wearing multiple layers of clothing and corsets), to a Chinese man with a heavy coat filled inside with eggs, seems like asking for heat stroke, bad for your health and not something kids would have patience for. The cartoons with kids putting an egg in their overalls pocket is just not realistic, I think the result would be very sad after a kid gets their hope up. She might learn a lot more building an incubator (would be an awesome science fair project too).

 

[Quail27]

Well... the human body runs at almost the perfect temp (at least, an acceptable temperature for hatching most eggs). And we produce humidity. So, it seems like if a person has the patience and was very careful, they could possibly hatch an egg simularly to how a mother chicken does, minus the sitting on it part