All About Incubating Eggs
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Incubating eggs requires a delicate balance of conditions to ensure proper chick development and a successful hatching. Steve & Brian explain the process and provide tips to help ensure the incubation process goes well.
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Been watching you for a while now & have nothing but a lots o Love & Respect for you guys
We have a Farm Innovators incubator from Rural King. We bought the optional egg-turner - sold separately. We have had 90-98% hatch rate for the past six years using it.
I have a Maticoopx 30 egg capacity incubator I purchased from Amazon. I am more than happy! With the price of hatchery chicks having increased significantly this year, my first hatch has more than paid for the price of the incubator! I purchased it around Black Friday and paid $105.00 for it on a sale. I just looked and they are approximately $130.00 as of today. I do dry hatching so I cannot inform anyone on how effecient the water delivery and humidity sensor are. As it was, I had a 80% hatch rate which I was very pleased with. I highly recommend hatching your own chicks! It's fun and extremely rewarding.
I have a Farm Innovator incubator(foam). Not very good out of the box. I added fans to circulate temperature better. I also leave one location open and move each eggs location one position each day to get a better hatch rate and avoid potential cold or warm spots. 50% hatch rate out of box to 100% hatch rate after modifications for first hatch. Incubating second hatch now. I also place a pen on top of the incubator to indicate the direction of the egg turner, so I know its still working and change it as I see the turner changed.
We use silver water in the base of the incubator to hinder bacterial overgrowth.
Been looking forward for this one guys !!! Thanks !!! Also looking forward to the comments to see what people recommend !!!
Interesting. I can't have roosters, but I'm wanting to learn more.. 🤔
My incubator hatched out Three copies . All set now, no frozen eggs this winter because one of them is alw a ys broody 😊❤
I wash an egg if it soiled, otherwise, I do not wash them before setting them in the incubator.
My incubator is a money printer. Cheap 50$ from tractor supply. Just egg turner no fan.
waiting patiently for my easter egger hatching eggs :)
It's funny this video dropped this a.m., I just started incubating eggs last night!
I graduated from a Styrofoam incubator to a Brinsea Ovation 56 EX a few years ago. I love it! It was expensive, but it's fully automated. I've had high hatch rates with it.
Now, having said that, last summer was not good. I made two hatch attempts (112 eggs total). The first and second candlings, for both attempts, showed no growth. I have two separate flocks with multiple roosters. I've raised chickens about 20 years and incubated almost as long. I've never had this problem before. I'm thinking a feed issue. Any thoughts?
Great video as always!
Maybe all the crap sprayed in the air.
Also if fast food chicken can (and does) have a human sterilizing agent
and "THEY" want all chickens dead (thus the bird flu test that is timed and if it runs over the allotted time.. IT'S POSITIVE TEST , ALWAYS FILM THE TESTERS WITH A WITNESS IF POSSIBLE)
that said--maybe in the feed is sterilizing ingredients.😡😡😡
I bought a shady Chinese incubator to hatch out poults so fingers crossed. Someone's also sitting on eggs out there as a backup.
Never tried this yet
Need two incubators. One for incubation and one for hatching. Cleanliness issues.
Just ordered a incubate. Have you seen the price of chicks this year? 5 dollars and up a lot were 16.00. My chicks would come back true but I'll have chickens.
I'll look into it more now that our chicken is producing eggs and seems not interested in sitting on them to hatch.
Issue is , half will be roosters .
Mmmmm! Freezer Camp boys! 😉
No issue those are future chicken dinners
I incubated 26 eggs and 14 were roosters. My freezer will be good and stocked. Food security is a must.