![]() Even though I stopped hatching for over a year I am around 10,000 hatched since late 2014. She did go and help me load about every 10x10ft chain-link dog kennels I bought(a lot of them)-With-in one year I went from 30 chickens and 3 chicken pens to 67 pens and had over 1200 chickens on the farm at one time, from 1 Styrofoam to several Styrofoam, then to eventually 5 cabinets(never used the 5th one) hatching a little over 6000 chicks in a little over a year. I know I am a man, but I never asked my wife to help me. Don't trust the built in meter, read the reviews. Some of the eggs are older ones.Ĭlick to expand.Just read the reviews on that incubator-most everyone I know that has bought one-hate them, meters read wrong, I have a friend that bought 4 in one day, loaded all 4 down in the next few days-None hatched 3 weeks later-she was so mad because some of the eggs she payed a lot for, but she Never put another thermometer in them to check how accurate the built in ones were-she figured they were new and should be right-Wrong. I may regret hatching so many duck eggs but will be thrilled if half of them hatch. My current chicken egg customers only want chicken eggs. I will have to find some egg customers who like duck eggs. I am thinking about 10 adult females would be a good size group. Plan is to sell some ducklings, and then keep a breeding group here year round. The first one, the 9300 is holding steady. Will check it soon and hopefully I can get it to temp and it will hold steady. I have the old bator plugged in, and heating currently. I know if it is a female it will lay eggs, but they won't be hatchable. I was just curious to see what it will look like. ![]() The Muscovy was mated by the khaki male so the baby will be a mule. ![]() Just set it up today and got 52 ducks eggs in it. Well I did break down and buy another new incubator. 0 people did not find this review helpful. I was only able to rescue 3 super weak chicks I had 28 eggs in the incubator and all were alive on day 18 of incubation. Although they r alive (2days ago they hatched) their abdomens aren't fully closed and they r still pretty weak. They were not even strong enough to hatch on their own so I had to help them. Only 3 chicks pipped THREE days late and were so weak. When the incubator was telling me 99.5 it was actually around 96-97 degrees Fahrenheit. I decided to check the temperature of the incubator with 2 other separate thermometers because another person doing the project had the same incubator as me and her chicks weren't hatching as well. On the day they were suppose to hatch none of mine hatched. All of the eggs that my club purchased for this project were from the same place. At first every thing was fine- at least I thought it was. ![]() This year I decided to finally buy my very own incubator. I have been hatching chicks for 3 years now for my 4-h project. I think my son is going to loan me 2 of his machines, so I So yes, in my situation, I need to incubate. I have never seen any others this size locally. Some, my son has a trio, and the lady we got them from. So I need to make more of them with what I have. I have the one incubator running now with the tiny eggs from my hens. I have at least 3 people who want to buy what I have but I won't sell these as they are my breeders. I only have the 6 hens, and 1 rooster in this Wants to sell but I was able to get hatching eggs from her today. The lady I got them from currently has none she They are in cagesĪnd I rotate the male every other day between them. I have the tiny chickens and I want more of them. I do have 12 young khakis under 2 months old, but not sure yet how many are male / females. So the incubator is part of my future plans. I only have 1 adult khaki female and 2 adult Muscovy females and I want more khakis. She only has khaki Campbell ducks, and plenty of males so I know they areįertile. I had asked her to set aside someįor me earlier this spring. The duck eggs I am going to incubate came from a friend of mine.
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