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It usually works best if all the eggs in one incubator hatch at the same time. If you have two incubators, it can work well to put in eggs once a week. Eggs of different ages can all incubate together in one of the incubators. Then once each week, move the due-to-hatch eggs into the second...

I agree. Yes, it is okay.

A chick will be fine in the incubator for that amount of time. The only thing that will "happen" is they will take lots of naps, mixed with small amounts of practicing walking, pecking everything in sight, and rolling the other eggs around. Chicks absorb the yolk just before they hatch, and...

I'm not the person you are asking, but here is one experience of my own: I put eggs in the incubator, did not add water, and incubated them for one week. I did not have any way to measure humidity, and I did not do anything to try to change it. I did have an egg turner, and checked regularly to...

Normal Barred Rocks are black with white barring. So if you have seen Barred Rocks, you have seen the color that males will be from a cross of black rooster/barred hen. Almost yes. The Extended Black gene that makes a chicken black all over is dominant over all the other genes at that locus...

Genetic mumbo-jumbo: Rhode Island Reds are probably E^Wh (Wheaten) at the e-locus (recessive to Extended Black). Rhode Island Reds would also have Co and Mh (Columbian and Mahogany: Co to restrict black, and Mh to turn gold into red.) Yes, the Extended Black gene from the Barred Rock would be...

If you make that cross, using Barred Rock as the mother and Black Australorp or Black Jersey Giant as the father, then yes the daughters should grow up to be black with no leakage of other colors. Sons should be black with white barring but no leakage of other colors. The barring gene is what...

Yes, ambient humidity is the natural humidity in the air, what you get when you have not done anything to change it. Yes, it pretty much is as easy as that. But you do need to be sure the male has no barring. I would not recommend using a white male, because white feathers can hide white...