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Not easy. That's why I bought 4 cheap Styrofoam units and use 2 as setters and 2 as hatchers.

If the ambient humidity is 30% or higher I don't add any water to the incubator until lock down. Then I shoot for 70-75% for the first 2 days of lock down and on the third 60% as when the chicks start hatching the humidity goes up rapidly. Mine went up so fast on one hatch I had to crack the...

If I can build some appropriate broody nest boxes I may can have a couple of broody hatches in August yet. 4 pullets, (almost hens) are broody now. They all have that broody peckitis when I try to move them off of the nests. They cannot set where they are in a community nest box. It's not the...

I wanted to keep them going but when I was crystal clear there was no way to keep building infrastructure fast enough to keep up with the hatches I knew it was best to slow the hatches down. I almost bought a few Buff Orpingtons a few days ago to use as broody girls but managed to escape TSC...

I hatched March, April, and May. Brought some eggs in a couple of times since for hatching and decided they should be scrambled and fed back instead. Not sure I can pass on hatching some good looking American Bresse eggs here in August. If they hatch well then September and ............... who...

I believe I will be able to set 41 American Bresse eggs in a week or so for the first time. The pullets finally decided to start laying eggs large enough to set and enough to fill an incubator. If not 41 I can use a few Bresse cross eggs.