Happy Chick Incubators

[Barb Frison]

HappyFeet Hatchery located in Eustis, FL is a certified Hatchery through the Department of Agriculture that offers Baby Chicks, Juveniles, Hatching Eggs and Farm Fresh Eggs year-round! We have a passion for raising happy, healthy birds for our customers to purchase, either by appointment or we ship as well! We are experienced shippers and ship our hatching eggs by pre-order.

All of our breeds are carefully selected to provide you with the best variety and quality of poultry. Whether you are looking for great layers, colorful birds, or colorful eggs Happy Feet Hatchery has just what you need. We are always happy to help those new to chickens embark on their new journey as well!

First off I am a returning customer and all birds arrived alive and well again Temps are in the 80s here ! I love the variety of the rare breed chicks and the 2 turkeys + 1 extra Royal Palms ! Khaki campbell ducks are one of my favs! Total birds received is 31 ! Very happy customer

The only bad thing was that our gosling(s) bit at least two of the chicks and one of the goslings until their wing was bleeding. All are good though. Still running around happily.

Due to the injuries though, I put the goslings in a box by themselves. I put the ducks and the turkeys in a box together and put all the chicks in huge box.

We received this order today and I have to say we are very pleased! Everyone arrived healthy and took to eating and drinking immediately. The turkeys, geese and ducklings are all adorable. Thank you for such a wide variety and such healthy birds.

Never knew Cackle Hatchery had over 300+ YouTube videos on products and breeder flocks. Very very interesting and a great customer tool to see different breeder flocks, different chickens, different set-ups in the way breeders keep their chickens, and even your product demos were intriguing. Keep up the good customer relations. These homegrown contests, the newsletter, and the Born to be Wild speed freak video of hatch/shipping day are incredible hilarious and funny. Your public relation ideas are wonderful. And someone sure put in a lot video-taping all those flocks. Very very fun and enjoyable.

Family-founded in 2018, we are here to supply the best egg incubators, chick brooders, egg rollout cages, chicken feather pluckers and anything else a poultry keeper, small homesteader or hobbyist might need for their flock.

Awesome incubator, easy to clean, holds a ton of eggs. The only thing I would want to change would be that you cant control each level individually to stop some and let others turn. Other than that I love the product.

A nervous friend sent me a flurry of text messages with photos of his brooder setup in his 68F family room the night before his first chicks arrived. The brooder was perfect: feeder, nipple water drinker & EcoGlow chick warmer. Safe and fully furnished.

After he picked up his 6 chicks from the post office, he sent me a photo of his cuties under a heat lamp away from the EcoGlow- I nearly fainted. Using the heat lamp completely defeated the safety of the EcoGlow. I called him to discuss thinking like a mother hen.

He said when he got the chicks home, he placed them underneath the EcoGlow, but they ran away from it to the far end of the stock tank where they huddled noisily. When he turned the heat lamp on, they stopped cheeping, but remained huddled together underneath it. Thinking like a mother hen, we talked it through.

His three day old chicks had just been on dark, bumpy, 2 day ride through the mail and taken out of a dark box into a bright, unfamiliar place. They were scared, confused, hungry, thirsty and cold. They were lost and needed guidance, which a mother hen would have provided by showing them where the food and water were and tucking them underneath her body for warmth.

I told him to turn off the heat lamp and reduce the size of the brooder by making a divider with a piece of cardboard or hardware cloth. Now, the only places the chicks could stand were underneath the EcoGlow or in front of the feeder and drinker. It worked like a charm. They did not have the experience or judgment to know what they needed, so by removing options, they got what they needed.

By dusk that evening, the chicks were happily sleeping underneath the EcoGlow where they remained until sunrise the next morning. He was able to expand the living space, giving them access to the huge stock tank where they contentedly ate, drank, pooped and slept. The room and brooder were a comfortable 68F- there was no need to blast a 250 watt light bulb over their heads for the next several weeks- they were warm, happy, healthy and rested- just as they would have been if a hen had been caring for them.

In this video, one of these 2-day-old chicks is being treated for spraddle leg; the frantic, high-pitched chirping sounds indicate unhappiness as she struggles to walk for the first time on her splinted legs. (Meanwhile, her siblings can be seen cheering her on as they pick up and drop food, encouraging her to walk to it.)

Hi!

First time with chicks hatched by hen. Mist 9/30-10/2 and a late hatch 3 days ago. In covered run, in ex lg dog crate( the enclosed plastic) in seperated area of rum. Hemp bedding, insulation boards beside to block wind & covered with blanjets. Worried if should bring inside tonight.. as temps dropping suddenly tonight into mid forties! From 65-63 to 46

Any advice?

Thank you for clearing up how people will have their own favorite incubators. I want one that will do more than just hatch chicks though. That would be a plus but I'd like to have one for things like microbiology too.

The egg hasn't been candled now for three days in order to allow the chick move into the proper position for hatching, so the first outward sign we see will be a tiny crack on the surface of the eggshell.

When I first saw the 'pip' on this egg, it was facing the bottomof the incubator, I nearly collapsed with anxiety. What should I do? Would the chick hatching be able to breathe? Would it be able to takethe weight of the egg on top of it? How would it cope?

It's a tiring process and there will be a lot of rest periods before it finally hatches. The average length of time between pipping and chick hatching is between twelve and eighteen hours - in some cases longer.

So although the chick needed to rest a little in between pipping, she was almost completely hatched within the next fifteen minutes. She then needed another rest, this time for several minutes, before the final push.

This chick and her sister, who hatched almost at the same time, were more than happy to rest and sleep. They didn't move around much for several hours, so they were left for about 24 hours before being moved to the brooder.

In addition, the eggs have to be moved again and again, or the embryos will die. This is why Andrea has integrated a kind of tilt mechanism into his units, which tilts the eggs 45 degrees from left to right every hour. Once the chicks hatch, they remain in the incubator for a few hours to dry, before going outside.

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It is day 14 of our incubation! We got to candle our eggs for the second time. Last week, on day 7 of the incubation, we candled the eggs and saw what looked like development in all seven of our eggs! Here is the posting about our first egg candling of all seven eggs on day 7: -candling-seeing-new-life-in-progress/. Today it looks like we have five of the seven eggs developing normally. Here is a pic of what normal development looks like for day 14. You should see the blood vessels and then the darkness in the egg is the chick!

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