How To Hatch Chicken Eggs in an Incubator - Start to Finish 

Glad it helped!

Nah dawg you have to check them😂 you clearly have no ide 😅

@hope_clipzz4890 I'm not a dawg, homey. You don't open an incubator during a hatch. The whole world except you knows that "bruh"

@@M3hammerdown he needs to check on them so he knows better then you 😅 cry ab it

Absolutely true. You never open an incubator on hatch day.

You have to open to turn them ever 4 and half hours so they don't stick and die 🤦‍♀️😂

That is awesome! very exciting eh.

Our pleasure!

Best of luck 🤞

Awesome 😎

Glad it helped

Best of luck with your hatch

Cheers

it was really a cool experience and I love the fact that I can see whats going on with the clear dome.

Thanks Arc, appreciate you bud.

thnx for watching and following along. Glad to have met you the other day.

Nice! Thanks for saying that 🙏

yeah I really like the clear dome, but overall it did its job...kept the temp and humidity steady and of all my fertile eggs I only had 1 not hatch (probably cause it was a double yolk) Cheers, Chad.

@@HiddenSpringFarm good information thanks:)

Chicks love it, they just huddle underneath and have no issues. It can rise up as the chicks get bigger too. No fire hazard is a plus.

Nice, best of luck with your crew.

Old man pooper died last year sadly but he’s was 17 years old, he was a Senegal parrot. The two cats must have been Stormy & Smokey but I’d have to watch it again to be sure. They were taken by predators but had a forever impact on my life turning me into a cat guy.

@@HiddenSpringFarm awwww…. I get it… I thought one of them Was Stormy… they sure were sure kitties! I. Sorry you lost them to predators…. They are the reason you created your car cave / catio… my dad had two barn cats that he lost because he didn’t realize that they had got shut in the barn when he closed it up for the weekend… they were stuck in there with no food or water for three days in the middle of August when the temps reached over 100°F… oh he was so upset…. He made two little cat doors cut out in the over hang door and one in the back wall and then Began keeping a large container with water in it to prevent something like that ever happening again….

Sounds like you’ve got it down pat. 😊

@@HiddenSpringFarm I been hatching eggs in a incubator for over 7 yrs but i learned more each yr.I finally got tired of small incubators and last yr bought a cabinet incubator and a cabinet hatcher.

@@ciasarah376 oh yeah I want one of those too, can just do a lot of birds at once. Good for you 👍

I bought mine on Temu for $30.. it's just a generic (M16) ... But it works great I just got done using it

It’s electric

You mean no water added?

I lock it down on day 18

I leave them in for a day until they’re dry. They get enough nutrients from the yolk for about a day or two. Then put them in a brooder with a heat lamp or heat plate and have starter food and water available. Sometimes they find the food or I’ll dip their beak in the food and water so they’ll know. Best of luck & have fun.

Well one tip is if a chick has hatched early and had already dried out while you're waiting for the rest to hatch...take it out quickly then close the incubator. That way it doesn't lose too much humidity. The moist air helps keep the shell soft so they can hatch easier. Good luck with your hatch.

No. That’s how your chicks get shrink wrapped and die.

Exactly...... Lifting that lid is a death sentence. We have to let nature take its course

What did he do wrong please explain im learning here

@@Bouyati.tlb96 he did a great job! I was telling the person who commented about that lifting the lid during lock down will shrink wrap the chicks and will result in possible death. It’s very important to keep the lid closed until all chicks have hatched or until day 24. Chicks can live 2-3 days without food or water because of the yolk sac they absorb.

@@JessieBurwell oh I didn’t know chicks can live 2 to 3 days without food thanks so much for the information

Haha Donna ur right on. The second batch hatched two days later so now there’s like 21 of the little cuties.

It really varies. Sometimes it can be an hour or two and other times it's all night long. Important to keep the humidity high so the shell is a bit softer too.

I had one pip 48 hours…I should have helped it in 24 hours…it was pipped at wrong end…narrow end… Massaged neck and 3 days taped legs in proper position after birth.

We just put 12 eggs in incubator. We got 11 chicks on our first try.

Hours sometime the chick needs to rest I'v seen 3 to 4 hours the chick's have just eaten so you can leave the incubator closed up to 2 days never open the lid in lock down except in emergency if you do it's only a couple seconds the humidity drops shrink-wrap the piping chick's I'm wondering if that happened to the Last 3 chick's I have had chick's finish hatching on the 25th day so it can take time

37.5 celcius

It’s a long time ago but I’m sure they were all fine, we get a really good hatch rate when incubating.

Just put them in the incubator at the same time and they’ll all take approx 21 days. If you’ve put them in the incubator at different times just let them hatch and once they’re dry take em out while leaving the other ones in there. But be fast If any eggs are piping or trying to get out don’t open the incubator as they need the humidity. If they are hatching and lose the humidity the inner membrane can shrink wrap them in and they can’t hatch. Chicks can survive a day or two inside the incubator once they’ve hatched. Best of luck 🤞

They're only fertile for first7 days. Closer to lay the better days.

Oh boy good luck bud. They’re cute though and they grow super fast. I’ll be starting up the hatch process in April cause it’s still winter here. Thanks for watching, Chad.

@@HiddenSpringFarm im looking foward to it this is my first time trying ive collected a heap of eggs from a wide range of meat chickens my plan is to breed and make myself more self sufficent its summer here so i think they will be ok now ive got my meat sorted i have cows pigs sheep and soon to be chickens at least i wont go hungry

@@noelhenderson8095 sounds like you got a good thing going there and are on the right track. What chicken breed are you doing for meat? Last year we did Rhode Islands and Light Sussex and the Rhode Island’s weren’t very tender I think I let them grow a bit too long. I might try to get some Cornish cross chicks or maybe Some barred rock.

@@HiddenSpringFarm well I've got a few I've got the Plymouth Rock Rhode Island Red Sussex copper Maran Barnevelder Australorp silver laced Wyandotte a few others that I can't think of I am trying to find the cornish which we call in Australia the Indian game but they are not an easy bird to find if you crossed that with a Plymouth Rock you will get you a Cornish Cross I would prefer to do that then to go to a hatchery and pay a lot of money for their birds hopefully it all works out well

@@noelhenderson8095 yup I’ve been trying to find the Cornish and white rock rooster too… hard to find here also. All the big hatcheries hoard those birds cause they want to sell the cross chicks to people like us. Day old chicks here in Ontario is almost $4 each so buying 50 chicks plus feed is a ton of money. Better to hatch ourselves. Keep at it bud.

Yes, but don’t open the lid cause it needs a lot of humidity to make the shell softer.

Today was the day I had to remove the turning plate.. crossing my fingers the first time will work

@@skoootergurl67 if one hatches it’s tempting to get him outta there but the yolk provided them with like more than a days food so resist the urge and let the others hatch. If u open it the others can get stuck inside.

oh yeah for sure

I'm an acquired taste lol

@@HiddenSpringFarm he's a nut cake!

The three leftover eggs hatched the next morning but u are right about that Evelyn cause if it’s not humid enough inside the shell is harder to break out of. All chickens are doing well and good for now. And I have another 28 eggs incubating 😊 🐣

I was frantically trying to find instructions on how to look after a hatching egg & i must say your comment granted me such relief i cried. What happened was in the evening i was making some noodles & went to crack an egg into the pan but it wouldn't crack so i tried again & still no crack & that's when i came to the realisation there may be a baby chick inside because any egg usually cracks with little knock, I was so heartbroken i didn't know what to do except wrap it in a cloth, the egg even feels heavier than usual & i cried so much as the thought of it dying. But I don't have an incubator & have been searching online & what i could do & how i could get one. I don't want this chick to die inside 😭 so idk why but out of instinct, i boiled water & poured it into a hot water bottle & placed the egg into the soft hood of the cover of the hot water bottle. It's currently listening to some Qur'an and this all happened this evening. I can't let it die i wish Allah can let it live, i wish i know how to look after it properly, my heart is very anxious and i'm stressed out because i can't let the egg die 😭