Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

I have posted these pictures in several threads, but perhaps it's a good idea to have them posted separately.
INFERTILE egg
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I thought we could start a collective post of incubation screw ups and miracles- it might help those of us new to hatching out our own chickens, not...

Up until now, I've run smaller incbuators but I'd like to just run one...a big one. Running 2 incubators plus another for lockdown is getting harder...

Sooooo I have this New Hovabator....but I really don't need to hatch another full load of Silkies.
I was thinking of doing half a load but there is...

I was Goggling to see if anyone was looking into sexing chicken eggs before fertilization (they are :D) and found a cool article about incubation...

I have had pretty pathetic hatches with my still air hovabator so I just added a computer fan. I remember reading that when you go from still air to...

This is a chick from my new batch out of incubator
The only black hens I have are barred rock
So I'm thinking it is from one of them crossed with my...

If every chick popped out of it's shell right on day21, it would be easy to hold them for 24 hours in the incubator and then take the whole hatch...

I have made various candlers but always encountered problems.
The biggest problem is turning the egg in my hand over the light.
Major distress when I...

I just went to check on Snickers as she does not get off that nest much so i bring her water and treats often.... i got home today and this is the...

Ok so I am preparing to lock my incubator down, I just candled the eggs removed 5, only one of which was an early quitter, the others were yolkers....

Well Gawd you win the enabler of the year award! For those of you who don't know, Gawd sent me a PM about a Sportsman incubator for sale on PSO- I...

What is the maximum wattage (is that a word) that I can put on 1 15 amp fuse? They blow at more than 12 amps, right?
I have a 400 watt incubator, a...

I realize the BEST eggs to hatch are Normal size & shape.
BUT my Blue Showgirl does NOT lay Normal size & shaped eggs.
She lays eggs longer than the...

Had 50 eggs in old bator when it crashed.
Candled & 9 were either not fertile or floaters.

Moved 41 good eggs to new Hovabator.
Candled today &...

Well the poor little bantam Cochin has sat 21 days on her own eggs (first time I let her keep her own eggs). Candled 4 and they are all clear

Later...

The week old chicks have been moved into the brooder in the chicken coop.
( couldn't take them in my sewing room anymore - LOL )

I put the Fake...

A good introductory paper:
Review of the Factors That Influence Egg Fertility and Hatchabilty in Poultry

My 2nd batch have been in incubator for 7 days
Candled Them and 15 of 41 don't look fertile
I'm not surprised because quite a few of these eggs are...

When you can hear a chick peeping inside egg, does that mean it has made its internal pip?

Getting ready for my second batch of eggs to go in incubator
Remember my first hatch was late
Took 2-3 days for hatch to complete
Well I've been...

So I put a half doz Tufted Roman goose eggs in my little air circulating hobivator and a doz. d'Uccle eggs. Well I have been kinda busy this past...