Iowa Prepper's Egg Incubation Page

Iowa Prepper's Egg Incubation Page This is the start of my egg incubation build and a daily diary of its success.

Good resource for hatching yourown eggs. http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/resources/egg_to_chick/procedures.html
03/23/2017

Good resource for hatching yourown eggs. http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/resources/egg_to_chick/procedures.html

Obtaining fertile eggs may present a problem, especially if you live in an urban area. Most of the eggs sold in grocery stores are not fertile and cannot be used for incubation. Fertile eggs can usually be obtained from hatcheries or poultry breeding farms. Look in the yellow pages of your telephone...

07/24/2016

Started a new batch of random eggs from the coop on June 29, then added some more on July 1 and July 2. They started hatching the other day. Mixed lot of bantams and Aracauna/Wyandotte mix. Only have Aracuana roosters. 13 of 35 hatched so far. Had three not make it out of shell, and two succumbed to the Grim Reaper. So 11 happily living in their new condo.

04/15/2016

Got home last night from the shop and went to check for eggs. Hens have been real slow at laying. There were five in the coop yesterday morning. I left them there to see how many more would be laid during the day. When I got home one of our banty hens was sitting on a clutch of five. Three more were to the right, so I moved them to her. Interesting to watch her instinct kick in as she gathered them up and started sitting on all of them. I always find it amazing how Mother Nature just has a way of making things happen. 21 days of making hardwood flooring from reclaimed barn wood and I will come home to a small batch of freshly hatched chicks.

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09/03/2013

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"I blame the chickens. We started with chickens because I practically lived on egg whites. Then I tried my first pasture raised egg and couldn’t believe what I had been missing… Eggs have flavor! No store bought egg can compare to the liquid gold that comes from homestead eggs. Bring on the hand raised food—we were hooked! We added dairy goats, meat sheep and pigs."

Great blog interview with The Farmstead brought to you by From Scratch. The story of two airforce cadets to homesteaders.
http://www.fromscratchmag.com/farmstead/

05/14/2013

New vid on the Jimmys and their journey.

05/12/2013

Well, the hatching is done. Final tally is 26 chicks that made it. I think about half the eggs had been frozen on a cold night before I put them in the Eggubator. We haven't had a chick hatch since friday night so tomorrow morning I will crack open the unhatched and see what is inside.

On May 2 I added 11 eggs and then on May 10 I added 17 more so we should have a decent rotating crop of Jimmys.

The brood box with eighteen Jimmy's in it. Six more hatching now. Almost halfway.
05/10/2013

The brood box with eighteen Jimmy's in it. Six more hatching now. Almost halfway.

05/09/2013

We are up to ten hatched now, and some more on the way. The Eggubator is alive with peeping and rocking eggs.

Everything that has hatched has been on the top rack so far, but I just saw three more that are starting to hatch on the lower rack.

I have to say that I am very pleased with the Eggubator. I am going to do an article on the plans to build it and the costs involved. Definitely worth the investment considering it will last 30-40 years easily, with little or no maintenance.

So far we have Jimmy, Sandy, and Bablu as names. Any suggestions are welcomed.

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