incubator advice

So, I bought a cheap HHD Chinese incubator second hand a couple years ago and I'm finally trying it out for the first time. I got it all set up and tested it for a day with great results. The temp stayed pretty steady the entire time, and there was absolutely no beeping or any issues. I put...

Hello Chicken People! The first grade class where I work will be hatching out Serama eggs - or at least we're going to be trying to hatch them out. I think I've got everything set up properly, but my concern is when hatch day arrives, the itty bitty legs of the chicks might get caught in the...

Hi! First time incubating chicken eggs. I bought 12 fertilized eggs from a local farmer. I put them in the incubator after letting them rest on the counter for 8 hours. My temp has been at 100.5 and humidity at 50%. I candled them yesterday at day 5. It seems like 5 of them are developing with...

I am in a little of a pickle… My hen has gone broody and has been laying on eggs for 17 days now. There are 3 eggs that are on day 17 expected to hatch on January 13th (21 days). There are also 3+ eggs that are developing but probably on day 7-10. This happened because my other hen has been...

Hi there everyone! I recently went to a breeder and got 6 Mille fluer and Porcelain Pekin bantam eggs. I have a Janoel 24s incubator. She had been saving them for a week which I have read is perfectly fine. I candled the eggs at day 8 and saw that 5/6 eggs were developing which was great! Soon...

Hi all, I hatch duck and chicken eggs for a local farmer when he needs to increase his flock maybe 2 times in spring/summer, have done for the past 5/6 years. In the past, I’ve usually put 6 eggs in a small incubator and got at least 5 if not all of them out successfully. However, this year...

So I bought the 1502 sportsman incubator a few weeks ago and I have guineas hatching right now. Keeping the humidity up has been a constant struggle, once I finally get it up it goes right back down. My Guinea keets are pretty much all stuck inside the egg due to low humidity and I’m having to...

Hello! I am new to this site but I have seen many people’s questions get answered so I figured I’d give it a shot. This is my second time hatching eggs in this incubator (Little Giants Incubator) and the temperature DOES NOT stay at the correct temperature. If the set temperature is at 99.5 the...

Hello ! First post on this website, I am hoping that some people have some words of advice for my situation. Note : Am new to incubating and raising chicks overall. So as of near a month ago, one of the bantams of the coop went broody. She had a clutch of about 4ish eggs but the numbers kept...

Hi guys, It been a while, unfortunately I sold all my hens and my hatching business because I had to focus on my Alevels. But I still have my Brinsea OvaEasy Incubator in my garage sitting there collecting dust. So I decided to sell it, upon doing so realised that the metal on the floor of the...

I have the NR360. I’ll be getting hatching eggs in the next couple days. I read the instructions so I understand how to turn on and use, but my question is, do you have to turn it on early or preheat it? Or do I wait until the eggs are in?

It’s day 15 of incubation and my humidity dropped from 55% to 38% overnight. When I came to check I immediately brought it right back up. Now I know the humidity is high, but I read that in Oklahoma my humidity should be about 55%-60%, I’m not sure if that’s actually true, but I am keeping it...

I am using a Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance with the auto cradle, and when I had lifted the lid a few times to add water my incubator for some reason has fallen from the cradle 2-3 times :/ I know this can hurt the chick and I only checked one egg right now and it has a blood ring. I’m going to...

Hello! I am new to incubating and hatching. This is my 2nd run. The first hatch was amazingly successful. We got 24 hatched out of 30 with only one rooster. Not even sure how we did that! We have the Maticoopx and live in a camper so with little to no room we set the incubator outside in our...

This is my first time hatching any type of chicks. I have already hatched 7/16 chicks so far and they’re all fine! Now this one pipped last night sometime between 10 and 12, I went to sleep and when I woke up it was a little more open. Now it is nearly 6 and there has been no more movement. I...

I have already hatched 7 chicks so far and they’re all fine! Now this one pipped last night sometime between 10 and 12, I went to sleep and when I woke up it is not a little more open. Now it is nearly 6 and there has been no more movement. I took most chicks out and put them in the brooder a...

Help my incubator got to 110°F it got to that in 30 mins before I found out. So it wasn’t on that the whole time but I’m really scared I killed them. They were my first time incubating coturnix quail and I have had trouble the whole time. I couldn’t candle until day 8 or 9 for some of em and...

I’ve never incubated before, but I’d like to give it a shot. I hoped someone had insight into this incubator. Brinsea is WAY out of budget! KEBONNIXS 12 Egg Incubator with Humidity Display, Egg Candler, Automatic Egg Turner, for Hatching Chickens https://a.co/d/7wr2gFq All suggestions...

This duckling hatched about 10 minutes ago and seems to be doing fine except for this large attached bulb. What is this? What can I do about it? Is this normal?

Hi! Im incubating DUCK eggs. You will see in a previous post the kind of incubator I have. I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS!! :) 1. What is lockdown humidity? 2. What day is lockdown? 3. Lockdown temp? 4. Temp and humidity throughout incubation? 5. When do you take the turner out? 6. How do you...