How to incubate chicken eggs in 60 seconds flat

We use incubators to improve the clutch size of our broody hens. They are simple to use, offer great support and the higher models manage temperature, turning AND humidity automatically

[@I-like-arctic-foxes]

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[@EnglishCountryLife]

A cockerel is their father!

[@lilnabii]

Im hoping you could help its day 22 for our eggs one hatched one piped 5 hrs ago and still isnt out and no other activity. If there anything we should do. The eggs are being held up right should we let them free as you had them? And we dont have a hydrometer for humidity but theres condensation
Thank you x

[@EnglishCountryLife]

Hi, I'm assuming that these are chicken eggs? Definitely lay the eggs down, we normally remove them from cradles around day 19 and switch off any automatic turning. The chick inside will move around in the egg to break out and being held upright inhibits that. It can take 24 hrs for an egg to hatch from pipping.
Did you candle the eggs at day 7 or 14 at all?

[@tickiti]

I got a cheap incubator from Amazon $38, put 12 eggs in there no water for humidity, turned eggs manually twice a day, I successfully got 12/12 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@lifetimetraveller758]

Good instructions!

[@EnglishCountryLife]

Thank you 🐣

[@NicoleEivissa]

Sorry for another question :D I’m just too invested in this topic :)) Would you say from your experience, is there a higher hatching rate with an incubator or with a broody hen? Thanks in advance :)

[@EnglishCountryLife]

Don't be sorry Nicole, we love chatting with like minded people 😄
Probably incubators have a slightly higher hatch rate but chicks raised by broody hens are much better socialised. We combine both approaches for the best outcome. We describe our approach in this series
th-cam.com/video/UL_Hz9xtOkE/w-d-xo.html

[@NicoleEivissa]

@@EnglishCountryLife thank you for the reply and for the link! Can’t wait to watch it and learn more!😍

[@EnglishCountryLife]

@@NicoleEivissa You're very welcome - always here if you have questions 🙂

[@goldengryphon]

Purely outside opinion - I usually order my chicks, but I've been raising a rare breed and want to get into hatching my own eggs to expand and improve my flock.
I have found that eggs incubated by a broody hen have a lower hatch rate, can be as low as 20% with an inexperienced hen, and the chick survivalbility is about 20% overall. Basically, out of 5 eggs incubated by a broody, 1 will make it to the end of their first year.
With an incubator, or mail-order chicks, I can get a good 80 to 90% of chicks to the end of that first year (disease and random predators will take them once they survive that first 3 day period). The chicks that brood with a hen *are* better socialized in a flock, and tend to be healthier, but there's the trade-off of having to get them to that point.
I'm hatching my own eggs for the first time this year. So far I seem to have a good viability (better than 80%), so it's down to hatching now. I will move them out of the incubator into a "hatchery" (an older still air incubator with just a floor, no turner), then I'll be brooding them. Hopefully. Crossing my fingers.

[@NicoleEivissa]

@@goldengryphon thanks for your detailed feedback! I’m here back with an update: I’ve had a broody hen first time broody last year, and twice (yes, she’s an active hybrid which you wouldn’t expect to even go broody but nature is nature), and here’s my experience:
I got eggs in my mail in Spring last year. Out of 10 eggs, 8 chicks made it to the adulthood (I sold/ate the roosters), we have the hens which are more friendly compared to our hybrids we got first from a local hybrid hen factory before as many people do - not the best idea since these are made to produce eggs in large amounts so hens are tired after their first 2-3 years- I won’t be getting these again).
For the second time she got broody, I got another batch in August. Well, none of the eggs hatched after day 23 or so, sadly, I don’t know, maybe the mistake was I put them under the hen right after they were delivered to me so very “stressed” eggs that needed time to “sit” and regenerate after the shaking in on their way (the first batch eggs, I needed to finish my broody coop, so they had to wait some days which was a good thing I learned after).
Well, the hen was still broody! Wanted to sit as I took her out regularly twice a day for eating, bathing and pooping, so she was comfortable healthy mama:))
So I took a risk because I didn’t want her to sit “for nothing”: got another batch of eggs maybe a week later which I left for a couple of days this time to sit and regenerate. That helped! I had to help maybe 1 chicken out (of course learned the right way) but they usually help themselves. Out of 11, 9 chicks hatched! The 6 girls lay eggs already and we have one wonderful rooster for the flock (ate the rest of the roosters).
Now, I was told the hen won’t sit for more than 6 weeks. Well, obviously she did because she sat on another batch which was together like two months. So one’s own experience is better than any theory I see now. I learned a lot over the past few months, I learned also that I don’t have to be too anxious to control the eggs that much or hurry up to give them under the hen because in this case “less is more”.

[@zuzanacoynehanakova2511]

they are like popcorn

[@EnglishCountryLife]

I know what you mean 🤣

[@silentkillerx1]

Bro can u give me 1 egg incubator plz 😢

[@EnglishCountryLife]

I could sell you one....

[@silentkillerx1]

Ohh thank you and how much 😊

[@EnglishCountryLife]

@@silentkillerx1 They are all on our website www.englishcountrylife.com 🙂

[@silentkillerx1]

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[@EnglishCountryLife]

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