On 12/15/24, I started 58 eggs into my incubator using the stacker method! Wish me cLUCK!!! I didn’t add the other two eggs so I could say I show some restraint with my chickens!!! Day 3 and it is taking soooo long!
Your Buff Orphington hens are really good brooders. I have one and she's setting on 8 right now. She has already hatched 3. They are a cross between silver Wyandotte and Americana and a Buff Orphington mix.
Thank you for your kind words. That’s so exciting about your hatch. Congrats on your first three chicks. What a cool mix! Thanks for watching and reaching out. I am happy to hear you are getting your farm on 😄
I've moved chicks out of the incubator in between hatchings with no problem at all. You just have to go quickly and have help. Good luck with this. I would be way too nervous to try so many at one time but it was neat watching how you did it.
Thank you for the advice and well wishes. I really appreciate it. I struggle with picking the best time to move chicks and doing so quickly. I am always worried a tiny chick will get hurt if I move too fast but then when chicks get vacuum sealed, I feel so sad for them. I am glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and reaching out.
@justonemorestoryfarm Thanks for the reply. I'm still curious as to what your motive was. I stack them as well as put them in at different intervals, at weekly increments. However, I have a commercial incubator and stack them per container, per shelf. I set and forget.
Admin of the group here - This method needs diales into your incubator & location so doing this without checking your incubator temp with a calibrated instrument would cause temperature issues. Neurological issues are definitely from not having the right temperature or humidity environment. Its not from not turning. We have successfully hatches with the right environments in the incubator in the group. We would have gladly assisted you with this hatch have we known. We are active in the group! Edit to add: Now watching this, please don't candle them and sit them outside of the incubator. Thats a lot of time & another surface to suck temperature out of them. Could be another variable of why they had neuro issues
Thank you so much for reaching out. I really appreciate it. I appreciate all your advice. This was my first time trying this method and I was really excited to try a new incubation method. I have successfully hatched with dry hatching, the shoelace incubation method, the NR360 incubation directions as well as with using heating pads and seedling warming mats under my nurture right 360 incubator. My hatching eggs have hatched well both at 30 percent dry hatching humidity rates as well as 50 percent humidity rates in my NR360 incubators during the first 18 days. I do check my temperature and humidity with secondary thermometers and hygrometers to be sure the incubator readings are accurate. I use a brooder thermometer, a weber grill thermometer, an Ethmeas thermometer/hygrometer, a Kizen infrared laserpro thermometer gun and I just recently got a Govee thermoter/hygrometer. I do monitor the temperatures of my heating pads and seedling warming mats as well. While there are slight temperature fluctuations with my heating and warming pads, it is only a degree or two and does not appear to affect my incubator temperature. They work well together. I have had 100 percent hatch rates using the NR360 and a heating pad. That being said, not all heating pad brands are created equal so there may be some out there that have greater temperature fluctuations. I was so curious about the stack hatching method and I joined your group, Stacker Hatchers on Facebook. I downloaded the file with instructions on stack hatching. I did my best to follow the instructions. I reached out to your group with pictures of my hatching eggs air cell development asking if they were on track. This incubation was in late July 2023. Your Facebook group appears to be down currently so I cannot get you the exact date of my post. Could you make a video showing how you candle all your stacked eggs in the NR360 and switch their position in the stack halfway through incubation, please, without removing them from the incubator? In the instructions your group provided it says “When candling on day 10 (or 14 for newbies) You will put day 4 & 5s on the bottom while 1s & 2s stay on top to hatch first.” I don’t know how to switch their positions without removing them. I was so worried about an egg avalanche with them stacked on top of each other and I did have an egg roll off the top in the process. I don’t think it’s ideal to take them out of the incubator for candling and repositioning but I certainly feel I did it faster than my broody hens when they leave their hatching eggs to eat, drink, defecate and stretch their legs. However, I should have focused on doing it quicker and talked to the camera after completing the task. The video I saw on this was the Stacker Hatcher video on TH-cam and she has her eggs on the counter outside the incubator as she stacked them. I genuinely want to figure out why this hatch rate was so poor. The only differences I see between this hatch and other hatches I have done successfully is that the eggs are stacked, they are not turned, I had to remove the eggs from the incubator to switch their position, there was no lockdown and the chicks hatched on different days. Thank you for taking the time to help me with this. I look forward to hearing back from you. Have a great day.
GOOD EXPERIMENT THAT I'VE NEVER SEEN DONE BEFORE. TO TIME CONSUMING FOR MY LIFESTYLE THOUGH! LOVE MY INCUBATOR AS IT HOLDS A LARGE NUMBER OF EGGS AND ALSO ROTATES THEM AS NEEDED. EASY TO USE AND GOOD INCUBATION SUCCESS. THANKS FOR THE INORMATION THOUGH. VERY DEDICATED! :)
Thank you for your kinds words. Automatic turning incubators are so helpful. I love the NR360. I wish they would make a bigger one to hold more eggs. Until then, I have three of them to fill up to keep up with chick orders. It sounds like you got yourself a really good incubator. Thanks for watching!
My only experience hatching eggs started with 19 fertile eggs, but only 7 hatched even though we followed all the instructions. Same type of incubator. We think our bad results were a combination of factors, including the lack of health of the flock they came from(not our girls), but also the inability of the incubator to maintain the temperature and humidity without constant checking and adjusting. I would think the stacking method COULD be favorable in that the temperature/humidity could perhaps remain more consistent throughout the process, BUT I would think the lack of rotation of the eggs (which mimics what the hens typically would do) and the lack of space during hatching would be a negative. I'm glad you shared your experience and am sorry you had losses of hatchlings. A tip we used for this incubator was we got some digital temperature/humidity meters from Amazon and kept a couple in the incubator at egg level. The incubator would read 99.5 and the temperature gauge would read 97.5 near the outer edge and 99.0 at the center (at egg level). The humidity reading also showed differences, so it might help your next hatch in that incubator to have another way to check these things, just to double-check your readings.
Thank you @OrganicMommaGA and @PattyMoore-vd1ug for reaching out. I agree with both of you that hatching eggs should be rotated. It is so hard losing chicks. I am sorry to hear about your hatching difficulties @OrganicMommaGA. I hope your next hatch goes much better. I just got another digital temperature/humidity meter to help with hatches too. Happy hatching.
Hi. I have watched your incubating videos and I liked them as they were very helpful. I have two incubators which I am not happy and looking forward to buying one. I noticed your incubator and may I ask you advice me the best one to buy, please.
Hi 😃 Thank you for watching and reaching out. I am glad they are helpful. I really like the Mana Pro Nurture Right 360 incubator. I have three of them and they work great. There is a link to that incubator in the description, in the drop down menu, of this video. If you get this incubator, I have tutorials on how to set it up, clean it and best ways to hatch in it. Happy hatching 🐣
Great video! Sadly I was not able to read what you wrote at the end because video pop ups were in the way. What was written there? I prefer the dry hatch method. Thank you for dedicating time to do this. I am sorry you lost so many chicks.
+@themainechickentender541 Thank you for reaching out and letting me know that pop ups are in the way. I will see if I can change that. I wrote at the end of the video: SADLY, THE FOUR CHICKS DID NOT SURVIVE AND NO OTHER CHICKS HATCHED. I WAS DEVASTATED. I DIDN'T WANT TO EDIT AND SHARE THIS SAD VIDEO. HATCHING WITH 22 EGGS OR LESS IN THIS INCUBATOR WORKS BEST ALONG WITH USING THE AUTOMATIC TURNER FOR THE FIRST 18 DAYS. TRY THE DRY HATCH METHOD, SHOELACE METHOD OR THE TRADITIONAL WAY OF HATCHING. I HAVE VIDEOS ON EACH. Thank you for your kind words. I do like the dry hatching method as well. Have a great day 😃
I'm curious if you tried using a 2nd incubator to put them in as you candled and rotating them so they weren't out so long from the heat and humidity for so long? I'm not a chicken raising homestead person. I just saw your vlog on getting your goats, and that was the 2nd one I watched. Do you think that would have helped the survival rate?
That's a great idea. With that many eggs and trying to candle them all and stack them the correct way it sure is time consuming. Having a second incubator to set them in may help. I only tried stack hatching this one time and with the losses it's not something I want to try again. I recently did an eggsperiment with my three incubators comparing standard hatching to dry hatching and the shoelace incubation method. I have had much better hatch rates with those experiments. Thanks for watching and reaching out. I really appreciate it 😃
@justonemorestoryfarm Absolutely 💯 I watched that one after commenting on this one. It's the way my brain works. I try to fix things. If you ever want to try that again, it could give you a better outcome. Thank you for commenting back with me.
Thank you for reaching out. It is low. My best hatch rates have been with the humidity fluctuating around fifty percent for the first 18 days using the NR360 hatching instructions for hatching. Adding distilled water 3 to 4 times daily to the incubator to keep the humidity up definitely causes a hit of up and down fluctuations with the humidity. However, while dry hatching, my incubators humidity stayed right around 30 percent for the first 18 days and I had 15 chicks out of 22 hatching eggs hatch. I made a video documenting that hatch. I like trying different incubation methods. I tried the shoelace incubation method and also had 15 chicks hatch out of 22 hatching eggs. In that experiment the incubator humidity stayed stable around 50 percent for the first 18 days. The shoelace method was a really cool incubating experience and I made sure to share it on TH-cam as well. I am going to continue trying different incubation methods to find the best fit for my location. Have a great day!
I also created a stacking hatching page here on TH-cam a few years ago. So I’ll be posting more of the pictures and videos to my stack hatching page here
wait...we have chickens, ducks, and turkey eggs currently. I ran out of space for turkey eggs. Chicken eggs on outside ring, duck eggs on inside, some under broody hen. Where should I put the turkey eggs. This is day 02 of incubation of chicken and ducks. They have been turning however, Should I stack turkey and see?
That’s wicked awesome that you have chickens, ducks and turkey eggs! Hopefully, you were able to find some resources on stacking turkey eggs. I only tried stack hatching this one time and it was sadly a fail.
+@LGRSmokez For the stack hatching method, the instructions provided by the stacker hatchers group on Facebook said you do not have to turn the eggs. Personally, I have always used my automatic turner for the first 18 days of incubation and have had significantly better hatch rates than I did doing stack hatching. I will continue turning my eggs for future hatches. Thanks for watching 😃
@@justonemorestoryfarmI have seen/heard of stack hatching with the autoturner active. Maybe you would have had reasonable results still with it, but where you lay the eggs the same direction as the lower levels?
Thanks for reaching out. I find that my incubator struggles to keep the heat consistent when I am hatching in a room that is 68 degrees Fahrenheit. The heating pad supplies additional heat to support the incubator in keeping the eggs warm. Thanks for watching 😃
Help post 📯 I am a new breeder and I have some peacocks. I am looking for a good quality incubator for Peacock eggs. My question Is this incubator is good enough for peacock hatching 🐣??
That’s wicked cool that you raise peacocks! I only hatch chicken eggs so I can’t say if the NR360 will be a good incubator for peafowl. I do see that there are attachments made on Etsy to use with peafowl eggs in this incubator. I really do like the quality of the NR360 incubator. I wish you all the best with your peafowl hatching experiment. Thanks for watching and reaching out.
Thank you so much for your kind words 😀 I just set up my three incubators for a incubation challenge. Dry hatching vs shoelace incubation method vs NR360 incubation directions. I want to see which method works best doing it at the same time. Hopefully, I will have results to share with you in a few weeks when the chicks hatch 🐣
There is a channel in America tittled " White House on the Hill". They have a remedy to help with the splayed legs. A small piece of plastic straw with a rubber band threaded through and fitted on the legs. Good luck.
It sure is. It’s so hard to know when to intervene since it can do more harm in some cases. I am always hopeful they will pull through though. Thank you for watching and reaching out.
Thank you for reaching out. You are so right. I should be more mindful of closing the incubator when I am talking as it does affect the temperature and humidity. I’ll keep that in mind when I film my next hatching experiment. Have a great day.
It is usually fun trying different incubation methods. The shoelace incubation method is great. Dry hatching was cool. Stack hatching…. I had high hopes and it was a total fail. Thanks for reaching out. Have a great day! 😄
At least you gave credit where credit is due. But we don’t do this. All this is doing is setting people up for failure. If you want the specs which we created 16 years ago, please follow my group
Hi Shannon. Thanks for reaching out. I came across the Stacker Hatchers group on Facebook and was so excited to join and try out your incubation method. I enjoy trying different incubation methods and I share all my incubation results on TH-cam whether they are successes or fails. Can you elaborate when you say “But we don’t do this?” I wasn’t trying to set up anyone for failure, just simply sharing my experience. I did join your Stacker Hatchers group, downloaded the file with the instructions and attempted to follow it to the best of my ability. I did reach out to your group in a post where I showed pictures of my hatching egg’s air sac development to make sure they were on track. I believe that post was in late July 2023 but I can’t verify that because when I try to go to your Facebook group page, it says “The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.” If your able to check on that post and see what you think of my hatching eggs air sac development, I would appreciate it. In the instructions that came from your group, it says “Once you know your sweet spot, humidity will then be stable days 0-21.” For this hatch, my humidity was around 35 percent for the first 18 days which I have done before in this incubator as a dry hatch and had 15 chicks hatch out of 22 hatch with the dry hatch experiment. I’ve also had a 100 percent hatch rate with a wet hatch with my humidity around 50 percent for the first 18 days. The shoelace incubation method gave me 15 chicks out of 22 eggs and the humidity was around 50 percent for the first 18 days. With the stack hatch method I had 14 chicks hatch out of 40 hatching eggs and only ten chicks survived. I’m not sure the best way to find the “sweet spot” with your incubation method but I am genuinely curious on how to do so. I do verify my incubators temperature and humidity as well to secondary thermometers and hygrometers. Based on the air sac diagrams the file provided, I thought my air cells were tracking but I am new to tracking air cells which is why I reached out to your group. I think it is wonderful that you came up with a new way of incubating and that it works for you. It is really awesome that you are sharing your method and teaching people about incubation. It can be such a rewarding experience. The results of this hatch absolutely devastated me. If you could share advise on what I could have done differently, I would greatly appreciate it. Hatching chicks is such an amazing experience and I continue to share what I learn about incubating in the hopes to help others have an amazing hatching experience. I just don’t want to see anyone else have such a devastating hatching experience so my hope is that sharing my failed hatch will help others to learn more about incubation to avoid incubation issues and get a great hatch rate. I hope you have a great day and I look forward to hearing back from you.
Interesting idea but i would'nt risk this... people are in a rush for more baby chicks, they should do it as the incubator instructs, stop turning at day 18 etc... the mother hen turns the eggs every couple hours so this isn't natural, i wouldnt listen to that group just do it the way it should be, it's already a non natural process, we should'nt make it even less un natural lol
Thank you for reaching out. I agree. My best hatch rates have been following my incubator’s directions and having the eggs turned by the automatic turner for the first 18 days. I learned the lesson the hard way but now I know to stick to what works for incubation. Thanks for watching.
@justonemorestoryfarm Awww we live and learn! Even just the incubator is hard, I just lost one out of my 12 that drown somehow after it pipped :( It happens I guess.. the best way is under mama hen but I've had mama's abandon them! Only the strong survive I guess lol
On 12/15/24, I started 58 eggs into my incubator using the stacker method! Wish me cLUCK!!! I didn’t add the other two eggs so I could say I show some restraint with my chickens!!! Day 3 and it is taking soooo long!
Your Buff Orphington hens are really good brooders. I have one and she's setting on 8 right now. She has already hatched 3. They are a cross between silver Wyandotte and Americana and a Buff Orphington mix.
Thank you for your kind words. That’s so exciting about your hatch. Congrats on your first three chicks. What a cool mix! Thanks for watching and reaching out. I am happy to hear you are getting your farm on 😄
I've moved chicks out of the incubator in between hatchings with no problem at all. You just have to go quickly and have help. Good luck with this. I would be way too nervous to try so many at one time but it was neat watching how you did it.
Thank you for the advice and well wishes. I really appreciate it. I struggle with picking the best time to move chicks and doing so quickly. I am always worried a tiny chick will get hurt if I move too fast but then when chicks get vacuum sealed, I feel so sad for them. I am glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and reaching out.
Besides a head ache, what did you accomplish by putting eggs in the incubator at different intervals?
Thanks for reaching out. I certainly learned a valuable lesson not to stack eggs and also not to add them in at different times. Thanks for watching 😃
@justonemorestoryfarm Thanks for the reply. I'm still curious as to what your motive was. I stack them as well as put them in at different intervals, at weekly increments. However, I have a commercial incubator and stack them per container, per shelf. I set and forget.
Admin of the group here - This method needs diales into your incubator & location so doing this without checking your incubator temp with a calibrated instrument would cause temperature issues. Neurological issues are definitely from not having the right temperature or humidity environment. Its not from not turning. We have successfully hatches with the right environments in the incubator in the group. We would have gladly assisted you with this hatch have we known. We are active in the group!
Edit to add: Now watching this, please don't candle them and sit them outside of the incubator. Thats a lot of time & another surface to suck temperature out of them. Could be another variable of why they had neuro issues
And to add, its not good to sit an incubator on a heating pad. 😢 Thats going to cause hot spots & unsteady temperatures.
Thank you so much for reaching out. I really appreciate it. I appreciate all your advice. This was my first time trying this method and I was really excited to try a new incubation method. I have successfully hatched with dry hatching, the shoelace incubation method, the NR360 incubation directions as well as with using heating pads and seedling warming mats under my nurture right 360 incubator. My hatching eggs have hatched well both at 30 percent dry hatching humidity rates as well as 50 percent humidity rates in my NR360 incubators during the first 18 days.
I do check my temperature and humidity with secondary thermometers and hygrometers to be sure the incubator readings are accurate. I use a brooder thermometer, a weber grill thermometer, an Ethmeas thermometer/hygrometer, a Kizen infrared laserpro thermometer gun and I just recently got a Govee thermoter/hygrometer. I do monitor the temperatures of my heating pads and seedling warming mats as well. While there are slight temperature fluctuations with my heating and warming pads, it is only a degree or two and does not appear to affect my incubator temperature. They work well together.
I have had 100 percent hatch rates using the NR360 and a heating pad. That being said, not all heating pad brands are created equal so there may be some out there that have greater temperature fluctuations.
I was so curious about the stack hatching method and I joined your group, Stacker Hatchers on Facebook. I downloaded the file with instructions on stack hatching. I did my best to follow the instructions. I reached out to your group with pictures of my hatching eggs air cell development asking if they were on track. This incubation was in late July 2023. Your Facebook group appears to be down currently so I cannot get you the exact date of my post.
Could you make a video showing how you candle all your stacked eggs in the NR360 and switch their position in the stack halfway through incubation, please, without removing them from the incubator? In the instructions your group provided it says “When candling on day 10 (or 14 for newbies) You will put day 4 & 5s on the bottom while 1s & 2s stay on top to hatch first.” I don’t know how to switch their positions without removing them. I was so worried about an egg avalanche with them stacked on top of each other and I did have an egg roll off the top in the process. I don’t think it’s ideal to take them out of the incubator for candling and repositioning but I certainly feel I did it faster than my broody hens when they leave their hatching eggs to eat, drink, defecate and stretch their legs. However, I should have focused on doing it quicker and talked to the camera after completing the task. The video I saw on this was the Stacker Hatcher video on TH-cam and she has her eggs on the counter outside the incubator as she stacked them.
I genuinely want to figure out why this hatch rate was so poor. The only differences I see between this hatch and other hatches I have done successfully is that the eggs are stacked, they are not turned, I had to remove the eggs from the incubator to switch their position, there was no lockdown and the chicks hatched on different days. Thank you for taking the time to help me with this. I look forward to hearing back from you. Have a great day.
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@@justonemorestoryfarmI am curious as to why there was never a response back from them?
GOOD EXPERIMENT THAT I'VE NEVER SEEN DONE BEFORE. TO TIME CONSUMING FOR MY LIFESTYLE THOUGH! LOVE MY INCUBATOR AS IT HOLDS A LARGE NUMBER OF EGGS AND ALSO ROTATES THEM AS NEEDED. EASY TO USE AND GOOD INCUBATION SUCCESS. THANKS FOR THE INORMATION THOUGH. VERY DEDICATED! :)
Thank you for your kinds words. Automatic turning incubators are so helpful. I love the NR360. I wish they would make a bigger one to hold more eggs. Until then, I have three of them to fill up to keep up with chick orders. It sounds like you got yourself a really good incubator. Thanks for watching!
Hey what incubater is this please?@justonemorestoryfarm
My only experience hatching eggs started with 19 fertile eggs, but only 7 hatched even though we followed all the instructions. Same type of incubator. We think our bad results were a combination of factors, including the lack of health of the flock they came from(not our girls), but also the inability of the incubator to maintain the temperature and humidity without constant checking and adjusting. I would think the stacking method COULD be favorable in that the temperature/humidity could perhaps remain more consistent throughout the process, BUT I would think the lack of rotation of the eggs (which mimics what the hens typically would do) and the lack of space during hatching would be a negative. I'm glad you shared your experience and am sorry you had losses of hatchlings. A tip we used for this incubator was we got some digital temperature/humidity meters from Amazon and kept a couple in the incubator at egg level. The incubator would read 99.5 and the temperature gauge would read 97.5 near the outer edge and 99.0 at the center (at egg level). The humidity reading also showed differences, so it might help your next hatch in that incubator to have another way to check these things, just to double-check your readings.
The eggs need rotation naturally hatched from the hen they are turned daily that stacking method is not good
Thank you @OrganicMommaGA and @PattyMoore-vd1ug for reaching out. I agree with both of you that hatching eggs should be rotated. It is so hard losing chicks. I am sorry to hear about your hatching difficulties @OrganicMommaGA. I hope your next hatch goes much better. I just got another digital temperature/humidity meter to help with hatches too. Happy hatching.
Hi. I have watched your incubating videos and I liked them as they were very helpful. I have two incubators which I am not happy and looking forward to buying one. I noticed your incubator and may I ask you advice me the best one to buy, please.
Hi 😃 Thank you for watching and reaching out. I am glad they are helpful. I really like the Mana Pro Nurture Right 360 incubator. I have three of them and they work great. There is a link to that incubator in the description, in the drop down menu, of this video. If you get this incubator, I have tutorials on how to set it up, clean it and best ways to hatch in it. Happy hatching 🐣
Great video! Sadly I was not able to read what you wrote at the end because video pop ups were in the way. What was written there? I prefer the dry hatch method. Thank you for dedicating time to do this. I am sorry you lost so many chicks.
+@themainechickentender541 Thank you for reaching out and letting me know that pop ups are in the way. I will see if I can change that. I wrote at the end of the video:
SADLY, THE FOUR CHICKS DID NOT SURVIVE AND NO OTHER CHICKS
HATCHED. I WAS DEVASTATED. I DIDN'T
WANT TO EDIT AND SHARE THIS SAD VIDEO.
HATCHING WITH 22 EGGS OR LESS IN THIS INCUBATOR WORKS BEST ALONG WITH USING THE AUTOMATIC TURNER FOR THE FIRST 18 DAYS. TRY THE DRY HATCH METHOD, SHOELACE METHOD OR THE TRADITIONAL WAY OF HATCHING. I HAVE VIDEOS ON EACH.
Thank you for your kind words. I do like the dry hatching method as well. Have a great day 😃
Amazing 😻😅
Thank you for your kind words 😀
GOOD EXPERIMENT AND AM SAD YOUR BABIES PASSED. IT DOES HAPPEN. BE BLESSED!
Thank you so much for your kind words. I really appreciate it.
I'm curious if you tried using a 2nd incubator to put them in as you candled and rotating them so they weren't out so long from the heat and humidity for so long?
I'm not a chicken raising homestead person. I just saw your vlog on getting your goats, and that was the 2nd one I watched. Do you think that would have helped the survival rate?
That's a great idea. With that many eggs and trying to candle them all and stack them the correct way it sure is time consuming. Having a second incubator to set them in may help. I only tried stack hatching this one time and with the losses it's not something I want to try again. I recently did an eggsperiment with my three incubators comparing standard hatching to dry hatching and the shoelace incubation method. I have had much better hatch rates with those experiments. Thanks for watching and reaching out. I really appreciate it 😃
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Absolutely 💯 I watched that one after commenting on this one. It's the way my brain works. I try to fix things. If you ever want to try that again, it could give you a better outcome. Thank you for commenting back with me.
35% humidity seems awfully low. My skin cracks at 40% here in the winter
Thank you for reaching out. It is low. My best hatch rates have been with the humidity fluctuating around fifty percent for the first 18 days using the NR360 hatching instructions for hatching. Adding distilled water 3 to 4 times daily to the incubator to keep the humidity up definitely causes a hit of up and down fluctuations with the humidity. However, while dry hatching, my incubators humidity stayed right around 30 percent for the first 18 days and I had 15 chicks out of 22 hatching eggs hatch. I made a video documenting that hatch. I like trying different incubation methods. I tried the shoelace incubation method and also had 15 chicks hatch out of 22 hatching eggs. In that experiment the incubator humidity stayed stable around 50 percent for the first 18 days. The shoelace method was a really cool incubating experience and I made sure to share it on TH-cam as well. I am going to continue trying different incubation methods to find the best fit for my location. Have a great day!
I also created a stacking hatching page here on TH-cam a few years ago. So I’ll be posting more of the pictures and videos to my stack hatching page here
That’s great to hear. I just subscribed and look forward to seeing your pictures and videos. The more I can learn, the better. Thank you so much.
wait...we have chickens, ducks, and turkey eggs currently. I ran out of space for turkey eggs. Chicken eggs on outside ring, duck eggs on inside, some under broody hen. Where should I put the turkey eggs. This is day 02 of incubation of chicken and ducks. They have been turning however, Should I stack turkey and see?
That’s wicked awesome that you have chickens, ducks and turkey eggs! Hopefully, you were able to find some resources on stacking turkey eggs. I only tried stack hatching this one time and it was sadly a fail.
I thought U had to turn them ?
+@LGRSmokez For the stack hatching method, the instructions provided by the stacker hatchers group on Facebook said you do not have to turn the eggs. Personally, I have always used my automatic turner for the first 18 days of incubation and have had significantly better hatch rates than I did doing stack hatching. I will continue turning my eggs for future hatches. Thanks for watching 😃
@@justonemorestoryfarmI have seen/heard of stack hatching with the autoturner active. Maybe you would have had reasonable results still with it, but where you lay the eggs the same direction as the lower levels?
Of course. But some people think they know better than mother hen.
hi wanted to know what does the heat pad do to help the hatch was watching your other video on it
Thanks for reaching out. I find that my incubator struggles to keep the heat consistent when I am hatching in a room that is 68 degrees Fahrenheit. The heating pad supplies additional heat to support the incubator in keeping the eggs warm. Thanks for watching 😃
Help post 📯
I am a new breeder and I have some peacocks. I am looking for a good quality incubator for Peacock eggs.
My question Is this incubator is good enough for peacock hatching 🐣??
That’s wicked cool that you raise peacocks! I only hatch chicken eggs so I can’t say if the NR360 will be a good incubator for peafowl. I do see that there are attachments made on Etsy to use with peafowl eggs in this incubator. I really do like the quality of the NR360 incubator. I wish you all the best with your peafowl hatching experiment. Thanks for watching and reaching out.
hi a fan from india✅
Hi 😄 Thank you for watching and being a fan. We really appreciate it.
Put them in a cup to get their legs trained….sometimes that helps correct the issue
That’s a great idea! Thank you 😃
When the head is curling forward, it is a neurological problem.
Thank you for reaching out. Sadly, the chick did seem to have a neurological problem and did not respond to the electrolytes or poultry nutri-drench.
@@justonemorestoryfarm Right. I had a chick that had the head curling forward. It was terrible. The head flipping backwards is the vitamin deficiency.
Love your videos
Thank you so much for your kind words 😀 I just set up my three incubators for a incubation challenge. Dry hatching vs shoelace incubation method vs NR360 incubation directions. I want to see which method works best doing it at the same time. Hopefully, I will have results to share with you in a few weeks when the chicks hatch 🐣
strawberry i would've unplugged the incubator, and placed it in the brooder
Thank you for watching and reaching out. I appreciate the advice. Have a great day!
so stack hatching is a myth?
It didn’t work for me but there are groups online that say it works. Thanks for watching 😄
Good video
Thank you so much 😀
ON, NOT awn
I’ve been practicing saying ON. Thanks for the tip and for watching 😃
There is a channel in America tittled " White House on the Hill". They have a remedy to help with the splayed legs. A small piece of plastic straw with a rubber band threaded through and fitted on the legs. Good luck.
Thank you so much for reaching out. I watched the video and that is a great idea. I really appreciate you sharing this with me. Have a great day 😃
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Thank you so much 😃
As hard as it is emotionally, I found that those chicks that I have to help tend to do a lot worse, and mostly don't make it.
It sure is. It’s so hard to know when to intervene since it can do more harm in some cases. I am always hopeful they will pull through though. Thank you for watching and reaching out.
AS YOU ARE EXPLAINING ALL OF THIS YOU ARE LEAVING THE INCUBATOR OPEN. NOT THINKING THIS IS GOOD FOR THE EMBRYO'S AT ALL. JUST MY OPINION.
Thank you for reaching out. You are so right. I should be more mindful of closing the incubator when I am talking as it does affect the temperature and humidity. I’ll keep that in mind when I film my next hatching experiment. Have a great day.
Mother hen leaves the eggs too. It's no big deal especially in middle of summer
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Now you know that there are a lot of dumb people out there, on the interweb, that should not be followed.
It is usually fun trying different incubation methods. The shoelace incubation method is great. Dry hatching was cool. Stack hatching…. I had high hopes and it was a total fail. Thanks for reaching out. Have a great day! 😄
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At least you gave credit where credit is due. But we don’t do this. All this is doing is setting people up for failure. If you want the specs which we created 16 years ago, please follow my group
Hi Shannon. Thanks for reaching out. I came across the Stacker Hatchers group on Facebook and was so excited to join and try out your incubation method. I enjoy trying different incubation methods and I share all my incubation results on TH-cam whether they are successes or fails.
Can you elaborate when you say “But we don’t do this?” I wasn’t trying to set up anyone for failure, just simply sharing my experience. I did join your Stacker Hatchers group, downloaded the file with the instructions and attempted to follow it to the best of my ability. I did reach out to your group in a post where I showed pictures of my hatching egg’s air sac development to make sure they were on track. I believe that post was in late July 2023 but I can’t verify that because when I try to go to your Facebook group page, it says “The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.” If your able to check on that post and see what you think of my hatching eggs air sac development, I would appreciate it.
In the instructions that came from your group, it says “Once you know your sweet spot, humidity will then be stable days 0-21.” For this hatch, my humidity was around 35 percent for the first 18 days which I have done before in this incubator as a dry hatch and had 15 chicks hatch out of 22 hatch with the dry hatch experiment. I’ve also had a 100 percent hatch rate with a wet hatch with my humidity around 50 percent for the first 18 days. The shoelace incubation method gave me 15 chicks out of 22 eggs and the humidity was around 50 percent for the first 18 days. With the stack hatch method I had 14 chicks hatch out of 40 hatching eggs and only ten chicks survived. I’m not sure the best way to find the “sweet spot” with your incubation method but I am genuinely curious on how to do so. I do verify my incubators temperature and humidity as well to secondary thermometers and hygrometers.
Based on the air sac diagrams the file provided, I thought my air cells were tracking but I am new to tracking air cells which is why I reached out to your group.
I think it is wonderful that you came up with a new way of incubating and that it works for you. It is really awesome that you are sharing your method and teaching people about incubation. It can be such a rewarding experience. The results of this hatch absolutely devastated me. If you could share advise on what I could have done differently, I would greatly appreciate it.
Hatching chicks is such an amazing experience and I continue to share what I learn about incubating in the hopes to help others have an amazing hatching experience. I just don’t want to see anyone else have such a devastating hatching experience so my hope is that sharing my failed hatch will help others to learn more about incubation to avoid incubation issues and get a great hatch rate. I hope you have a great day and I look forward to hearing back from you.
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Must be my Rhode Island accent coming through 😆
Interesting idea but i would'nt risk this... people are in a rush for more baby chicks, they should do it as the incubator instructs, stop turning at day 18 etc... the mother hen turns the eggs every couple hours so this isn't natural, i wouldnt listen to that group just do it the way it should be, it's already a non natural process, we should'nt make it even less un natural lol
Thank you for reaching out. I agree. My best hatch rates have been following my incubator’s directions and having the eggs turned by the automatic turner for the first 18 days. I learned the lesson the hard way but now I know to stick to what works for incubation. Thanks for watching.
@justonemorestoryfarm Awww we live and learn! Even just the incubator is hard, I just lost one out of my 12 that drown somehow after it pipped :( It happens I guess.. the best way is under mama hen but I've had mama's abandon them! Only the strong survive I guess lol