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Our Broad Breasted Bronze Turkey Poults hatched. Of the 10 eggs we had... 6 were fertilized. Two pipped and failed. One never pipped. We have 3 turkey poults. So in love with these little guys. One is quite loud, guessing that one is the girl, jenny 💃 Love these guys.

How to control humidity in the incubator and post-hatch brooders? Lots of people love sponges. I hate having to throw these away after each hatch. We are trying to limit contamination between batches. So something inexpensive that we can toss out after a hatch makes me happy. Ever make...

Turkey Eggs Hatching & Poult Survival Rates We have done so much research on every type of turkey and incubating them. Anyone have any tips? We have RH Relative Humidity Guage in this particular incubator. I'm not sure how to calculate the difference between wet bulb, relative humidity, dew...

This batch of 10 turkey eggs, 4 were not fertilized. So of the 6 potential good ones, 2 decided to hatch on day 26. Only one egg didn't pip yet. Super EXCITED. *first turkey that hatched had splayed legs. Hoping with some TLC he'll make it.

I’ve heard something about 2-3 tablespoons of water is enough for an incubator but i wanted to know 1. If it was true 2. How often do i add water?. I have 2 humidity sensors that have temp reader included and they both say almost the same humidity but I’ve heard they are unreliable so I don’t...

After losing 6 eggs and 1 chick, I wanted to give up on this incubator. Something isn't right with it. But sadly either I lose the eggs or try at least. So in an effort to save 2 turkey eggs, I've been constantly checking this incubator. The heat and humidity were all wonky, and our turkey...

So my quail are hatching today and wanted to know what humidity y’all put yours on during hatching and does anyone know these colors?

Hey there, it’s the last 3 days of incubation, and one of the eggs started pipping. and I know I’m supposed to stop turning the eggs and increase the humidity. But I’m not sure on what the humidity should be set to ? cheers Adil

I am so crushed! Been incubating duck eggs for first time. We initially had 3 (one went bad early on). The two remaining have been thriving and growing and moving and doing great when all of a sudden I candles one of them (day 20) and saw this. Didn’t see any movement and I’m certain this is not...

hi there, my eggs are on day 19, yesterday i had the humidity way to high for lockdown. i let it be hoping it would lower over time, and it has the hydrometer of the incubator i am using says 76, i do not have an individual hydrometer and that is a fault on my side this is my first time using...

Hi all, I have this old homemade incubator that I have only used for ill pigeons and their chicks. It has a thermometer an automatic light-heat-situation but there is no way of measuring humidity. My question is is there some kind of way I can keep the humidity more or less correct without the...

I am a new duck mom, raising my first set of ducklings, and I have a question about humidity in their environment... I have my lights as far away from their water as possible (only shinning in a small corner on the opposite side, which seems comfortable to them). And have scaled down to a 75...

So days 1-10 my humidity was average 65. Finally figured out my humidity on day 10 and lowered it to 50-60. I’m currently on the first day of lock down. With humidity holding at 65-68. Do you think the chicks will be okay?

At first I thought I knew everything about incubating eggs, but it seems that the more I read the more I am confused? Some people say to put the humidity as low as 40, and others say no less then 55. I even see people putting it as high as 70 for the first few days! So which one is it??? Is 50...

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...

Currently I’m hatching eggs, there are peacock, turkey, and guinea. I know mixing eggs like that isn’t a smart idea but normally they do fine. I’ve had to open the incubator so many times that I am very worried that I have completely messed up the humidity. A chick got its foot stuck so I had to...

We are approaching day 20 of incubation. One egg made the tiniest pip hole, barely noticeable at first glance but its there. This happened probably 8 hours ago with no further progress. I had (micro) managed the humidity throughout the day until I had to go to work at 3. The humidity had...

Hello! I have been obsessively reading posts here for two months- when I began my first attempt at incubating eggs since I was a teenager (somehow had way more success then lol) I currently have 5 chicks- 2 buffs (6 weeks), and 3 silkies (4 weeks)- that I purchased after a 0% success rate of...