Cool YouTube video that shows how chicks develop in the egg, all the way from day one.

Often eggs in your incubator will be pipped or cracked, but the chicks just don’t hatch. There are many factors that contribute to this.

Are you wondering if the humidity level in your incubator is spot on. Humidity is second only to temperature when hatching eggs. Read on to learn how to calibrate your hygrometer correctly with the Salt Test Method.

Video of our little Serama hen with the chicks she hatched out after sitting on them for almost a month in cold winter weather.

For our first hatch in a HovaBator 1620, we put in a barnyard mix of eggs, from our free-range flock, that consisted of Russian Orloff Bantam, Serama, RIR, BO, Silkie cross, Crested Polish cross, Splash Wyandotte, and some mystery eggs.