Hatching chickens

in poultry •  6 years ago 

So you can let hen to sit on eggs and incubate chickens, but you can buy incubator and eggs for hatching and set up running incubation. I chose second option... but... as I didnt found why cheaper incubator is not good and why expensive incubator is so extremly good I did first mistake, I bought 70€ incubator... but maybe not mistake... I like to do things acurate, so set everything up, put eggs in and hoped for many fluffy chickens to hatch after 21 day... I get some advices from people, best was tu put packaging around it to keep heat... then I understood that thermometers are showing unacurate values, and calibrated thermometrs cost fortune, hydrometers more... adding water takes time and cools down egs... so two minuses for cheap incubator....so farE467A4D8-EB4F-4311-B410-EE081C43023B.jpeg0376F5D6-FAE0-492A-AEB0-C379D79E181D.jpeg
As hatching day got closer, I even put cvt camera to see how it happen over daytime at job... despite that I think I put all set up right, just less than half got out of egs... I was informed that hatching will be poor just because of cheap incubator, but I was smarter... as I bought different chicken breeds, I put eggs in different places in incubator and different levels, leaving outer line empty... so hatching result is more true and I got interesting outcome...5B00DA5D-7201-426E-B09E-07F6965C102C.jpegE6961469-9435-42DE-BC2F-D4072B7445FF.jpeg
If in the same incubation one breed hatches 20% and another 60%... who is porr quality?!? Incubator or eggs bought for incubation? Big question- as big as who was first, egg or chicken...0557608E-3B12-436B-9472-CE961007B5D7.jpeg
One knowlege I got: mandatory is to get best eggs possible, then check for updates for incubator, so far I decided to make mistake, to buy eggs for next try from the same seller... hoping to get better quality... I was wrong but it will be next storry...C52D6E13-A733-4F3E-80E5-6A75630BF5B3.jpeg
P.s. first hatched chicken... in chinese incubator filmed online with ip wi-fi cvt camera also made in China... and I still say that result of hatch is not because of incubator only:)

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