Hi all,
Well it's been a very long while since I have posted or visited the forum... I have had a hell of 2019, on many levels, including family bereavement and the sad loss of a lot of my ménagerie. As I am intended on making 2020 a better year (despite the crazy times we live in), I have given the incubator another go, with 6 of my girls eggs.
Anyway getting more to the point, so far 3 have hatched. They are in a brooder box a joiner friend has built for me, and under a heating plate. I just wondered, am I supposed to leave it on all day and night? They don't seem interested in getting food or water at the minute, and more interested in staying under the plate, in the nice cosy heat... Just don't want them to go hungry or thirsty.
I've attached a photo of the set up and of the first 2 to hatch as they were all dry and fluffed up...
Well it's been a very long while since I have posted or visited the forum... I have had a hell of 2019, on many levels, including family bereavement and the sad loss of a lot of my ménagerie. As I am intended on making 2020 a better year (despite the crazy times we live in), I have given the incubator another go, with 6 of my girls eggs.
Anyway getting more to the point, so far 3 have hatched. They are in a brooder box a joiner friend has built for me, and under a heating plate. I just wondered, am I supposed to leave it on all day and night? They don't seem interested in getting food or water at the minute, and more interested in staying under the plate, in the nice cosy heat... Just don't want them to go hungry or thirsty.
I've attached a photo of the set up and of the first 2 to hatch as they were all dry and fluffed up...