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This is my first time incubating and this is my first chick to hatch. Has anyone seen something like this on a chicks head before? Pictures are kind of hard to get because of the shape of my incubator. I can't tell if its head didn't develop properly or if it's a tumor maybe?

I recently started incubating. I've got five chicks so far. I have larger eggs from my Sapphire gems and smaller eggs from chickens that are part banny. All of the smaller eggs are hatching and doing fine except for two that were deformed because of a power outage I'm assuming. My larger eggs...

I've read humidity during first 18 days should be 45-55%, then 60% during lockdown to hatching. my chinese automated incubator has humidity monitoring and an adjustable low humidity alarm. water is added via a hole, no idea how the water to vapour/humidity is regulated. (I'm planning to...

Hello, I live in Sutton, Surrey and was just wondering, what breed would be best to sell to others. What breed would people in area be most likely to buy/be most interested in. Thanks!

Hi, I want to add a few chickens to my flock and I wanted to try out hatching! I read somewhere that when incubating you should have a minimum of 6 eggs or else they're less likely to hatch, is this true? I recently ordered 4 before reading that, should I order more?

Hi all, I have a broody Silkie who has been sitting on some fertilised Silkie eggs I bought, and day 21 is coming up this weekend. She is now in her own section of the coop with her own food and water. My question is, I've heard that sometimes Silkie chicks can get tangled in their Mother's...

Aloha! I set my incubator some days ago and it seems to be working really good. In the area where I live it rains some days a week so humidity is always over 60%, sometimes over 70%. I have had a hard time trying to keep the internal humidity in the incubator in between 50-60. Sometimes it goes...

Hatched our first set of chicks this week. Day 21 was on Tuesday. Most pipped on Tuesday night. All hatched on Wednesday night, except the last chick who hatched on Thursday morning. Two eggs were left. Neither had pipped but I knew one of them was alive as of day 17. Anyways, we waited until...

This is our first time with BYC. We have 4, we stared with 6. We have a brooder and love them. They are good to us too. So we bought 4 fertilized eggs online and its been 23 days. Our Broody has been faithfully taking care of them, but nothing so far. Tonight I went to taka a look and...

Good morning!!! We bought a Brinsea Maxi II Fully Digital 14 Egg Incubator awhile back. We have approximately 50 chickens, but have never tried to hatch via an incubator. Upon opening the package, we were a little overwhelmed but figured we would give it a shot. I never thought with just adding...

Hello, For the firts time I hatched chicken eggs with my automatic incubator. I got many pictures during the process. Steps ---> My incubators and hatching eggs method Thank you.

Hello friends, I translated my french version about my hatching guide... See ---> Hatching Eggs in automatic incubator Thank you for your energy!

Hello friends, I got some pictures about my first incubating experiement. In french... but pictures say all. Pictures ----> My Incubators

Hi I had just found this forum and would appreciate any advice I can get. I have some eggs in my incubator that are Delaware eggs. It is now day 23 and still no hatch. Wondering if anyone has experience with this bread and could tell me what to expect. At what point do I give up and try...

I put in my first egg in the incubator on May 7... Now the oldest egg is on Day 15 of incubation... And yesterday I had a terrible scare. The POWER went out, and my eggs were cold for roughly six hours... But when I candled them the next day, most of them are still moving & alive. How is that...

Afternoon all, I have 3 incubators....a Brinsea Mini Advance, Brinsea Octogon 20 Pro, and a Farm Innovators Still Air Incubator that I bought a fan and egg turner for. The 2 Brinsea I have are wonderful, the Octogon 20 has the humidity module and even though it was more $'s, is the way to...