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.

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.

I think I inherited my love of chickens from my grandmother. She raised hens and hatched baby chicks by the hundreds…

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.

We just set our first batch of eggs in our new HovaBator 1620 still air incubator. We plan on adding a fan to the incubator for the next hatch, but are experimenting a bit with this clutch of 22 eggs.