incubating

  1. TaylorChickadoodleFam

    Nice To Meet CockADoodle YOU!

    (1) We are not new to chickens as this is our 3 flock in 10 years :) I also grew up with a dozen chickens in our flocks all throughout my childhood. Our first flocks as a family was 7 girls in 2013 in New Zealand. (2) We have fifteen1-3 year hens, one 2 year old rooster, eight 1 month chicks...
  2. Poultrykeeper12

    Lockdown questions.

    Hello Byc! I have been incubating eggs for 16 days now and I just need a couple answers about the days to come. #1 My temperature throughout the incubation period was at a steady 100.0F to about 100.2F my question is that, will I get an early batch because of this? or a later one. My incubator...
  3. S

    Hatching Peafowl

    Hi this is my first time incubating peafowl eggs! I ordered two online (from peafow.com). I’m on day 7 tomorrow. I’ve been incubating with a gqf 1502 sportsman and I’ve been keeping the temp stable at about 99.5-100 and a stable humidity around 60%. I have them in peafowl specific egg trays and...
  4. Poultrykeeper12

    Day 15 trouble!

    Hello Byc! So I am on day 15 of incubation. But of course some issues happend. While I was gone picking up my chick stuff the incubator must have unplugged. Because when I got home, the humidity was all the way up 75% and the temperature was down to 70F. I think it must have been off for an...
  5. K

    Incubating Ducks and Chicks together! HELP!!!!!!

    I am incubating for the first time and attempting to do both chicken and duck eggs together. Here are my questions... 1. I started the duck eggs in the incubator on Friday and plan to put the chick eggs in this coming Friday. In the meantime, where is the best place to store the chicken eggs...
  6. D

    Embryos dying during incubation

    Hi, 2 weeks ago I put in the incubator 23 shipped silkie eggs but only 6 started to develop. When I candled on day 7 it looked like 3 died early with blood ring. Now I candled on day 11 and another chick died but it was pretty developed now I'm left with two but those may die too. I don't know...
  7. C

    Help! Need to know how old my duck egg is!

    Okay so I found two abandoned duck nests (flooded with water during heavy rain) that i had come across about a month before. Out of the 22 eggs I initially took, only one has shown real signs of life. He’s the only one in my incubator now. I need to know how he is so I can put him on lockdown at...
  8. I

    Duck egg not developing normally...what's wrong?

    Hi all, I found a duck egg in my backyard, which was abandoned by the mother for a week. It was around 60 degrees F outside, which I read online is the ideal temperature for storing an egg, so i figured it couldn't hurt to try incubating it in the hopes of saving the little dude. Around day 7...
  9. MandaRae

    Humidity

    Okay so I have one of those 7 egg incubators. Didn't realize it had such bad reviews when I bought it, it had good reviews on it so I assumed it was okay but reading in here I've discovered some people don't like them. It only shows the temperature no humidity, so I bought a little digital...
  10. D

    Advice on my eggs

    Hello everyone new to incubating egg's some white some blue on day 8 i can see small black dot and red Veins on all eggs but on the blue (Cream Legbar) eggs one side is a dark shadow. But on the white eggs (peking) there is a Shadow but not as distinctive. Any help or advice please
  11. richardbim

    Still Air Incubator Questions

    I started incubation last Sunday and I started out with the recommended temperature (99.5) l’m using the 9200 Little Giant incubator, I had it at that temperature for around 2 days. Then I started searching up the ideal temperature for a still air incubator, I read that some ideal temperatures...
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  12. AJoy16

    Eliminating Bad Eggs (quail)

    Quail eggs are notoriously hard to candle (based on what I'm seeing and reading online). I was wondering if and when I should eliminate eggs from my incubator that are completely clear?
  13. M

    Humidity for hatch and Little Giant...

    Hi all! Brand new to the boards. My sons and I are incubating eggs right now. We got a little extra temp and humidity gauge to go with our Little Giant incubator. The humidity from the incubator reads in the high 40%s, and the other one reads 11-12%. Are Little Giants often off? Do I need a...
  14. R

    Hi All, 1st time trying to hatch quail

    So can anyone tell me if these look like good or bad eggs? Each picture is a different egg. They are corturnix quail eggs and this is day 14 for them. All others were dark but I can definately see air cells. This is my first time hatching and candleing.
  15. J

    PLEASE HELP - Humdity issues while incubating ducks!

    All of the schools shut down here. So what we’re going to be incubated in a classroom, and then our first ducklings on our homestead turned into us incubating them. We were thrilled, but there have been some issues. As far as I know, the teacher only turned them once per day. They came to us...
  16. Blueroanpainted

    Incubator problems!

    Hi all! I have probably close to 30+ showgirl/frizzle eggs in the bator. The oldest egg in there is from February 21st. There are several eggs that where doing great, where still moving and carrying on on Friday. But no one has hatched yet. I looked in the two oldest eggs, and the first one, it...
  17. P

    Will my humidifier work with this humidity controller? (VOLTAGE question)

    Hey all. I'm having issues with humidity regulation so I'm wanting to tap my humidifier into a controller to turn on/off when the humidity reaches a certain %. My humidifier power adapter is 18v and I was curious which of the below would work for it. The power supply in question: Class 2 Power...
  18. C

    Egg has externally pipped but beak looks stuck!

    Hello! I am fairly new to incubating eggs so I would appreciate any ideas that you might have about by dilemma. It is day 21 and three out of the seven have successfully hatched. However, one of the ones that began pipping about 3 hours ago has stuck it's beak through the pipping hole but has...
  19. aliciaplus3

    Acres Poultry hatching thread with aliciaplus3!

    Howdy folks! I have been having trouble keeping track of where I have posted and where I have not in response to hatch a longs, so I have decided to create a thread where I can (hopefully) keep a running dialog going about what is currently hatching. I have 4 (or 5?) incubators going for the...
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