The Little Incubator

We recently purchased an incubator.

We borrowed one last year.

It was our first time trying to hatch our own eggs.

Everything went well in the beginning.

Then one by one we kept losing ducklings the closer we got to hatching day.

We even lost a couple as they were hatching.

It was quite sad to wait a month only to have them die at the very end.

So we decided to get our own incubator and try it again.

I can't say it was completely the older incubator's fault.

We're new to this and there are a lot of variables.

We're excited to try our hand at another hatch.

Our incubator arrived but we had no eggs to hatch.

When our critters actually do lay an egg I say they have paid rent.

All our hens had quit. (The freeloading slackers.)

We're not sure if it was the cold weather, lack of light, molting, or all of that combined.

We added a light to the duck coop hoping to jump start the eggs.

We think it may have helped as the hens starting laying eggs again.

We're so thankful because we were down to our last 6 for eating.
Most of them are paying rent again. ;)

This is our little incubator.

It holds up to 7 duck eggs.

So of course that's how many we have in there. :)

I love how well you can see the eggs.

It was hard to see the eggs in the other incubator.

Should make hatching day lots of fun!

This little incubator is pretty cool.
You can set the incubation days for your species of fowl.
It also has automatic egg turning that will stop two days before the expected hatch.
It's almost a set and forget kind of thing.
We'll see how it goes.
We will be able to candle the eggs the middle of next week.
That's when we will be able to tell which ones are growing.
Duck incubation takes 28 days.
The wait is on...only 27 days to go.