At
100° now
Humidity 58
Trying to stabilize before adding eggs

I got a chicken sitting on 3 .... and now we wait

I wish i had a broody one...

My Wifey wanted to hatch some
...so "we" dug out the incubator and Googled a few things

Got a few cooking in a makeshift incubator. I’ll know by Sunday if it is makeshift enough. lol

Had a young hen go broody awhile back, I waited till dark and moved her to a grainery, she hatched 8 out of 12 one died coming out of the shell so I have 7 they were born on the 25th cute little rascals, the hen was just born last Aug.

That's Cool

My grandmother incubated eggs in a kerosene powered incubator.

My chics ar all descendents from my original flock I started in 2006.

Amazing

I just got done trying to hatch out quail eggs just make sure your humidity is up like 70 percent during lockdown ..we had the problem the egg shells were to hard yet bc the humidity wasn't high enough my wife would hold the eggs up to her ear could hear them chirping in the egg an then she would crack them carefully help them out got 3 out of like 10 thought that was pretty neat was our practice run know what to do now this was all down with the cheap Styrofoam little giant incubator

Next time, take any eggs that didn't pip and put them in 106F water. Eggs with live live chicks will rock vigorously, because chicks kick to tell the hen they are to warm. Put the eggs that rock back in the incubator and they should hatch in less than an hour. The heat invigorates the chicks and the water loosens them from the shell membrane, so they can turn and pip out. You'll get a lot better hatch rate doing this.

I have about 3300 quail chicks, 300 chicken chicks and 350 guinea keets growing out in brooders right now. I have 3 completely full cabinet incubators going and need to get 2 others repaired and full.

Coturnix quail chicks have been selling really well this year.

Keith

Well you beat my 39 ^^^

I don't have enough energy for that

Cheaper incubators need to be kept in a warm room and it has to be a stable temp .like a incubator in an incubator if you catch my drift .If not you will lose a lot of birds just before hatching

Eggs Benedict tomorrow?

Good luck

It was at 104 this morning

Probably fried

Do you have any info on that kerosene powered incubator Such as approx. age make I am kind of curios about what they looked like and how they worked

I hatched out 64 coturnix quail a couple weeks ago. Have another batch due about the 20th.

Google: Antique Kerosene Incubator

https://www.bing.com/images/search?...IQFRBA&first=1&cw=980&ch=628

My Grandma burned up 1500 chicks along with the huge chicken house with a kerosene brooder.

Know a guy that burned up a hog house when he ran out of propane on the weekend and in order to keep his water from freezing until the next morning when he could get propane, he set up a couple of kerosene heaters and a hog got out of one of the pens and turned over a heater and burned the house and a bunch of fat hogs.

I'm just saying be careful.