Bought a bator from off Ebay also Didn't know what I needed the most on one Heat has to be 99.5 So in i jumped to hatching my own Ordered eggs...
REad all about it Put them in 99.5 Humidity 50
21days later chicks!!EASY!!
3 weeks later to m y supreme disappointment no chicks hatched ..Was so disaponte then mad...bought moreeggs..tried again .3 weksalter....dsay 21 nothing, day 22 nothing, day 23 nothing.
In the past 2 months ihad read up on incubating andfound the eggs need ot sit for 24hours if shilled and shipped by the way dont hatch well. (NO KIDDING)
My temp had jumped all over the whole hatch a real stress point
The temp needing to be 99.5 It was CRUCIAL i found
. So bought a SECOND incubator. A Genesis that holds the temp exact.Now its July
Got my first chick!!! More followed the next 2-3-4 weeks as I continued to buy more and more eggs
I must have set 300 eggs by late fall but onle a few hatched of each set...still enough and oh yes I even set them in fall .
HUGE mistake Baby chick cant take the cold ...had to stay in
Then it got Dec couldn't go out not grown yet...
Spring came none were acclimated to anything under 70 degree had to wait for warmer weather still.
March
Have you ever had a rooster crow in your bathroom? A hen lay eggs in your bathroom?
It happened to me and the mess they all made .....well it aint pretty.NOT CLOSE
As the chicks came and spring too they needed more than the one coop I had built A lot more
So coops and runs followed eggs...I now have 7 coops and runs I made myself as I had no money to buy coops for them all they had to be separate eac htheir own to get pure breed eggs.
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