Kevin and Sarah, congratulations on the launch of your chicken sale. I’m confident it will go well…but I have to add that you two look awesome. So slim and trim…now that deserves recognition. Congratulations and God bless.
This was very timely. Our beloved rooster died this week defending his flock, and we are having to incubate his first and last clutch, as the hens are not broody. Wish us luck!
So excited for you! It’s been so encouraging to see your journey over the years. You have given me the courage to take steps that were once only dreams! May God continue to bless you and your homestead. ❤
thanks for the simple facts! Fresh food and water (non frozen) Daily!! Keep pine shavings in nest boxes for 'clean free' eggs. Have a caged run, open windows, vent in coop for ammonia in heat season :) put this on watch later.😉
I much prefer the R-Com as the best incubator. Same price range but better technology and ease of use. Has a small heating unit in the water reservoir. Recovers heat and humidity levels after opening within 1 minute. A group of my chicken friends did many different hatches and tried several methods of cleaning and found that using a cap full of bleach in a sink full of warm water to clean dirty eggs, rinsing with clean warm water, and drying them completely right before going into the incubator actually increased the hatch rates to 92% and produced healthy chicks. Especially useful during spring mud season when we usually do hatches and have to deal with dirty eggs.
Is so much to Joy have a little chicks, it's remind me when I was very young and I see the little baby chicken, I wish you guys all the best with baby chicks and quails take care and God bless you.
Your introduction of your first batch of American Bresse inspired me to get Canadian Bresse this spring. We have 12 chicks that are now 2.5 weeks old. Exciting times.
Thank you Kevin & Sarah,this was such a special video.I so appreciate what you do for all of us! You are such wonderful homesteaders! Bless you & your family!🌷💕🌷
I switched to brinsea incubators a few years ago when the cheap Chinese made incubator I was using glitched and cooked my chicks on hatch day. I have the ovation 56 ex and love it, I usually get 100% hatch rates. I use it as an incubator only and on day 18 I move the eggs to a hatcher. This not only keeps the incubator clean but allows me to set eggs every week in one incubator. This also means that I only need one brooder and the older chicks teach the younger ones to eat. Because new chicks are added every week there is no aggravation issues.
This was a great video! We are going to be hatching our own eggs for meat chickens next year. We have new egg layer chicks coming in July. Not trying to hatch for selling, just for us for consumption. We are 71 years old and are just trying to be as self-sufficient as possible. Thank you for such a detailed video explaining how to incubate, etc. This was just what we needed. We also checked out the new website and love it! Good job! We love you guys! God bless! ❤❤
I ordered Cornish Cross, the American Bresse were sold out already. Getting 20 meat birds. And we ordered 15 new laying hens - McMurrys best sellers mix or something of the sort. My son has 26 eggs in his incubator right now. And his foxes are bred. 😊 Those quail chicks were adorable 🌺 Thank you for another great video.
I think temperature is what affects weither you get roosters or hens. I have always had more roosters in my spring hatching and hens in the summer hatch. I only use broody hens no incubator
You must have a good flock. We used to. We had one hen that would collect 30 eggs and go broody. She hatched, trained, and protected those chicks and part of the flock they became. It was incredible. Now, new flock, 20 years later, one hen goes broody and she jumps off the eggs when they begin hatching. Pure stupid apparently.😭
Yes yes yes.... Hatching eggs is not confusing or complicated with a Brindsi and I am not getting any thing from the company either. Like you I started with a cheaper one. What a pain in the #%*. Get a Brindsi and follow the instructions. My worst hatch with the brindsi was 80%. Often got 100% hatch. They can easily stay at room temp for 7 days. You guys do such great teaching videos. Kevin, I just needed a reminder and I watched one of your videos on making easy bread. Again a great video. Quail sure are cute and I wish you all the best with this lot.... I think the Chicks are not done hatching.. This is so exciting. 80 % is a good rate. American Bresse are wonderful.. Thanks for sharing.
Oh my goodness! There are so many baby chicks! Immediately, the baby shark song (baby chick version) popped into my head. Geez, thanks for that... lol.
We hatched our first chicks this year..and they did great. I have one more batch in for hatching. My older birds may become stew meat. How exciting to watch. ❤👍 Thank you for your inspiration.
Congratulations on a great chick hatch! They look great! I agree on keeping things simple. I've been raising chickens for 20+ years and finally decided I needed to stick with one breed of chicken, too. My choice is the Black Australorps, they are a dual purpose bird that lays a lot of eggs. Check them out, they are awesome!
yes, love the black australorps too. Especially those pretty brown eyes. Here's a little story: I had my chickens out free ranging with my Shepherd and I keeping watch. I was sitting on the grass, my dog was lying down next to me. One of the roosters decided he was in love with the black australorp. He came running at her with 'intentions' and she ran behind my dog and sat very close to him. Rooster changed his mind! LOL.
@@saddleridge4364 😂I know that rooster charge! Boy, that is a smart hen, mine do the same to stand behind me. Sometimes surprise me by jumping up onto my shoulder! Chicken lady for sure, lol
Perfect timing I'm on day 19 of my first try hatching chicks. Great info and confidence for me guys I always enjoy your videos so much Thank you so much. Be safe and God Bless you both.
This is cuteness overload. I have never seen so many baby chicks and for sure baby quail. It is hard to believe those quail came out of those tiny eggs. Thanks so much for sharing, especially to city gals like me. Y'all have a Blessed day.
When you got your 1st American Bresse chicks you also got some other chicks. Molinas maybe? You haven't mentioned much about them. Could we have an update on them?
Oh my goodness! They are all so precious! Wow!!! A bumper crop of chicks all around! You two make it look so easy. Thank you for sharing your tips and techniques. I always learn something.
I don't have or do any of the things you two do..... but farming and farm animals is where my heart is. My parents had a small farm and then when I was 4 we moved to a small town. But spent weekends at My Gramps farm to help out. So i call myself a farm girl (more like a Grama) at heart. Thanks to you and some other You Tube homesteaders for giving a Sr. Lady some wholesome entertainment.🥰🥰🥰
Just booked mark on my Brave Browser your AWESOME WEBSITE. Congratulations! It’s so beautiful and informative. Count our homestead as a future customer. Love everything you both support and do. Blessings, Wayne
I agree on the pointy eggs. We hatched our first batch and there was 1 bullet egg in there and we were expecting a rooster from it. But it turned out to be the only hen that hatched in that batch. Lol
TY so much for this video! We just purchased 12 American Bresse chicks yesterday and plan to raise them for meat and to sell as well. We will be new to the incubation process also so this video was most helpful. Stay blessed..
Nice! My daughter has some crornish chickens and we're going to try and make our own cornish cross...only thing the "cross" will be what ever's in the hen house...we'll see how it goes.
It took three full days for all of our chicks to hatch. The very last one’l to hatch was having trouble and we found that its intestines formed outside its body so other than that, we had a pretty good hatch rate this year. Way better than last year. Last year only two of 10 hatched. The others stopped developing and never got out of the egg. It’s been an interesting learning experience each spring.
Perfect timing! I am trying to decide upon a new incubator. I've always used the styrofoam and usually seem to have too many projects going at one time; so the incubator that you are using sounds like it would help. Especially with humidity levels! Once again, thanks for sharing!
We got American Bresse chickens this spring because of watching you guys. Thanks so much for sharing your journey with them. We love this breed of chickens already and they are only 6 weeks old. They are a very "sturdy" chicken and calm. We are excited to watch them grow.
Another fun and interesting video, Thank You. We are planning on purchasing some American Bresse chicks soon. Our intention, much like yours, is having the dual purpose chicken and not having to be dependent on the Jumbo Cornish Cross like we now are and they have been excellent meat birds for us!
Incubating 40 eggs. 8 babies as of this morning. Love this time of year.❤🐣🐥🐓 That incubator is almost like mine. Probably an upgrade to the one we have.
Hey guys been watching you for years another great informative video , just starting out with chickens ourselves great info for beginners like us. Love your channel honest , informative and were learning a lot from both of you.. thanks for the great content
I'm with you on keeping it simple, but I go one step further and dry hatch. No water at all. The humidity is usually 33-35% until the first egg hatches and then jumps to 70 all on it's own and maintains 50-70 while the rest of the eggs hatch. In my experience, this reduces the chance of shrink wrapping.
WOW what a hatch you had on the quail and Breese Chicks. Have a great time selling and raising lots from both hatches. Thanks for sharing all the great information. Stay safe and keep up the great fun too. Fred.
