Hatching Chicks! Incubating basics.

[@wheelsuprn6591]

Get a tumi 60ml syringe. You have a lure lock syringe. Tip designed to connect to IV tubing/ports. The tumi tip is longer so reaches into incubator further.

[@BrookeandBaby]

Thank you for this! I’m doing a hatch Friday in this incubator!!

[@RockyCreekHomestead]

Awesome, hope you have good success.

[@lorineidtinytoadplot744]

Great video ;) Bruce is a beast lol

[@RockyCreekHomestead]

He definitely getting the job done 😆.

[@sdesytfcanon]

I happened to get a Easter Egger rooster among my backyard chickens special last year. So this year I got the cheapest incubator I could get that had rollers. Did very small batch at first. I got 1 that hatched out of 4 egg. (2 weren’t fertilize). Second batch did much better with 3 out of 7. So far they are all French Copper Moran/Easter Egger cross. Thanks for the info regarding the humidity. That’s probably my biggest mistake along with leaving the roller in until they hatched 🐣. I’m real curious what they will look like as adults and the eggshell color

[@RockyCreekHomestead]

It’s a fun experiment to see how they turn out. Easter eggers / FCM should make some great combinations. Probably get some olives out of that.

[@TheresaPhillips-ji7gc]

Where do you put the water in with lid on

[@RockyCreekHomestead]

There’s a rubber plug on each side near the bottom, you remove it and can squirt it through it. It can be a little bit of a pain as some of the water does leak out sometimes if I over fill. I generally keep it on a towel for this reason just in case

[@FluffyButtFarms]

I'm thinking about getting an incubator like that from Tractor Farm Supply. Is that plastic or Styrofoam just out of curiosity as I've seen some knockoffs that aren't plastic

[@RockyCreekHomestead]

It’s styrofoam with a thin plastic outer layer. The one I have is www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/farm-innovators-pro-series-circulated-air-incubator-with-automatic-egg-turner . The price is much higher than it used to be. At the time it was the cheapest larger one available and think it was only around $100. There’s a lot of others that have come out since then.

[@FluffyButtFarms]

@@RockyCreekHomestead thank you that's what I was hoping is that it had a plastic shell over the styrofoam that's what I figured. Thanks 🐓