I am so happy you were able to get an incubator ; ;

I thought it was a Nintendo thing, but now I thing it's an incubator.

wow bad ass

that's what it is, the part they sit in rotates them so the eggs develop right and the rest maintains heat and monitors humidity, I just have to add water as needed.

yeah no idea how whoever posted that got that, the internet am I right?

(there seriously is no wattage listed anywhere on the unit, the box or the manual wtf?)

an Incubator?, your not planning to make a Poultry Farm are you? XD

40 eggs at time, well less than that, I have been told to expect an 85% hatch *at best*

Im actually gtting an incubator soon for my Ball pythons x3 Wish you luck!

Now my turn to try and get a new one My pooped out a while back. xD

Just make sure you don't run out of water! I've never heard of cleaning the eggs before putting them in an incubator. Good luck!

never clean hatching eggs!!!! theres important stuff coating the egg.
proper humidity & temperature is important so keep an eye on it. make sure eggs are getting turned- is there an auto egg turner?... don't mess with the humidity too much by opening the incubator as the chicks start hatching- let it be. I used to hatch about 100 chicks every year with a gqf sportsman incubator, then switched over to hatching with hens 100% to decrease the electricity bill... it's fun :)

I got mixed messages on the cleaning, some say it is fine, others not, I have known about the protective bloom for years and never cleaned eggs for hatch by hen before, but at the caution of heavy bacteria growth in the incubator I used a wet cloth to take heavy grime off a couple that had poo on them but did not touch the clean ones or ones with just some dirt on them.

It does have an auto turner, I was very adamant on that one haha I am not hand turning 40 eggs 3 times a day for 18 days nope.

I am thinking of making a hole to run a tube attached to a funnel down to the bottom so I can refill it without opening it in case the humidity drops bad during "lock down" as they hatch.

With the auto-turner and monitors, you've got a pretty easy job. Just watch the temp and humidity. I can't remember the number of days before hatch time, but I believe three days before hatching you need to put your 'bator in lock-down; no opening or closing it until ALL chicks have hatched. Not sure if you're a part of it yet but I would recommend joining backyardchickens.com; great site with lots of experienced chicken-keepers to help answer questions and give advice.

Hey, I watch Backyardchickens on Facebook I think!

I love the forum. It can prove quite useful sometimes. I'm just starting out with chicken breeding myself, but I don't yet own an incubator. But I have done a lot of research.

I work for a poultry company in the breeder department. Policy says do not wash eggs. However, you don't want fecal buildup on the eggs. We give our growers scrub brushes to scratch off the poo. We do have growers that wipe their dirty eggs off with a damp clothe and they always have normal hatches (95%). As long as you don't scrub the waxy cuticle off the egg, it is ok to wipe off any fecal contamination. If the egg is clean, there is absolutely no need to wash it.

good I just used a hand towel and water to get some poo eggs clean, I dry rubbed the dirt ones and left the clean ones alone.

You should be good then. Humidity is very important to chick development. If its too dry, too much water will evaporate out of the egg and cause the chick to die. Other end of the spectrum, if it's too moist and you put soiled eggs into your incubator, bacteria will flourish and it can get into the egg and kill the chick. So its always important to start with a disinfected machine and mostly clean eggs.

Its amazing how mother nature perfected the technique and most birds can hatch out all the eggs.

THANK YOU, i was soooo confused on this part with my incubator!

TIL that chickens can put out green eggs.

Certain breeds lay blue-green (some even pinks .. not like tan pink, but pink) like the Americana/Araucana/ and any breed mixed with them (though the egg will come out more olive or tan), other breeds too, but i'd have to look them up ^-^

Good luck! Sweety! Let us Know how it goes, gonna incubate some duck eggs here ina day or two once we have more than like 3 eggs, lol! Did you say 40 eggs! WOW!And all from your own burds? You got some good layers!<3

We just 40-some chicks from Murray McMurray farms. .. . so many lil fluff butts! <3 Imma get pics once they are a wee bit older, and we can tell for sure the breeds ^-^

Isn't raising birds just so much fun! <3

After about a week, I would recommend taking the eggs out and candling them to check and make sure they are fertile and developing. Any that are not, remove them and dispose of them. You can get eggs to explode if they rot before the 21 days.... its nasty. A quick internet search will help you learn how to candle eggs and show how to tell if they are developing or not.

We had one of these in school! Just too cool and what a pay off when it works! All I remember is rotating them by hand. and you can make them male or female depending on the heat temp!

Have you contacted the company?

glad you got one