incubator

Hi, there! My family and I are thinking about hatching our own chickies! But the question is, how? We already have a Brinsea incubator (and the option to let our hens hatch them in a separate little coop area) and some chick starter. What else do I need? Should I hatch them or would it be...

Hi all, Newbie here to hatching eggs with a bator (so much less worry/fuss with a broody. 😃). I'm on my second hatch and was wondering what temperature is too hot or too cool for a forced air incubator? I have the Hovabator 2370 with an automatic turner. I just set the eggs this morning and...

We were on day 19 of incubation and the night before the chick started chirping. It was always chirping but then today (day 19) after and hour or two I realized I hadn’t heard any chirping i checked the heat and humidity everything was fine. I thought maybe the chick drowned and couldn’t get...

I’ll start with my situation then my question.. I was removing some quail from one of my incubators. Because there were still eggs left I heated up and steamed up my bathroom in order to safely open it without loosing humidity. That was successful... I had an egg carton of eggs set aside in my...

The weekend after Easter I put 22 eggs int the incubator, had 17 go into lockdown, and 15 hatch on day 21. I still have 2 eggs (one brown & one white) in the incubator as of today, Day 27. I candles them yesterday and couldn’t see into the brown one at all and the white one had a great air cell...

Hi, I have eggs in the incubator and I have 1 really big duck egg in there too. I thought their would be twins in the big egg but there is only one duckling in it. They are supposed to hatch Friday but I’m not sure how it will be able to get out of the egg. Since it’s a big shell he’s only in...

Looking into an incubator for duck eggs. I obviously want something that will work and not break but I also want to spend around $100 or preferably less as we are just starting out and will only be using it for our own purposes and not constantly having eggs in it. Does anyone have...

Had a late morning power outage and was so glad to have a portable generator to power the incubators (full of goose eggs 😱). The outage ultimately only lasted a couple of hours, but you never know... Am wondering if anyone has tried using the 12 volt battery power adapter for the GQF Hova-Bator...

Do the embryos in freshly laid eggs develop faster than the embryos in eggs that were laid days or weeks before? I've noticed that an egg laid yesterday develops faster than eggs laid last week. Does anyone know if there's any science to this? Or am I just imagining things?

Just sharing! The chicks are starting to arrive. Went to the hardware and picked out a big box yesterday. Have a 100 watt bulb in the heat lamp. #4 3 others already in the brooder Out the door to the feed store this morning for chick starter. It feels like spring now!

Hey everyone! I have a dilemma.. I never help any of my incubator chicks hatch. I always let nature take its course. Having said that.... I am encountering the strangest hatch I've ever seen. She pipped well over 24 hours ago. 12 hours after pipping, she began to unzip but instead of going...

Hello! This is my first time incubating bantam eggs, everything has been pretty consistent and I ended up locking down the eggs at day 16 because they were moving, I followed the manufacturing instructions and put the amount of water in recommended for days 16-21 and now my humidity is reading...

So, after nog yielding an single developing egg from my first try at hatching chicks in an incubator, I decided to test my incubator's hygrometer and thermometer. I also bought a 2nd thermometer/hygrometer, intended for use in terrariums, to use alongside the ones built-in in my incubator. More...

So I've been chicken sitting for my neighbor and let me tell you, the eggs are certainly fertile. Those poor hens are going bald from the rooster. Anyways, I was wanting to increase my flock and felt it would be wise to get an incubator and hatch some of these fertile eggs. Well, I went ahead...

Hey everyone, So a little background, we incubated and hatched chicks out twice last year. We used 2 different forced air incubators we purchased from Amazon. They are both sold by a number of different Chinese vendors and don't seem to have a "brand name". The first was a 16 egg small one I...

Hi, I just had 4 ducklings hatch today and they are still in the incubator. What temperature should I put the incubator at?

Hello! Little background. I started raising quail one year ago. You can say I’m still pretty new to this hobby but I have butchered some quail, I’ve built them a shelter on the ground and I have about 30 quail at this moment. I want to start hatching my quail eggs this year, some for eggs,meat...

@BrinseaUS hi my incubator is forming salt on the little water passage plastic which is stopping the water from passing and making huge humidity changes... how can i fix this?

Hi all! We just moved from Alaska to Minnesota, and we are FINALLY able to have chickens again! YAYYYY!! Because of the shortage of the breeds in the major online websites, I am going to buy fertilized eggs and try to hatch them. I also may have 2 Sebastopol goose eggs that are coming from a...

Hi there, Today (day 25) I gave up and opened the eggs that didn’t hatch, (only 1/8 hatched). 3 died early, and then 4 were fully developed. I decided to open them because i saw no movement in the last 12 hours. Could I have killed them? On the other side yesterday I posted another question and...