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How to keep chicken eggs warm with no incubator?!?

I have a couple chicken eggs. Every time I try to get a hen on them, they always give up! I have no incubator. How can i do this??? -Max

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1. sit on them
2. Put them in the microwave and press heat.
3. put them between your leg
4. don't think you can do this. But try putting it next to a heater and blankets on it! HOPE THIS HELPS!!
5. Exstemly hot lamps with strong lightbulbs, with a magic bag arround them, Thats what I did. But dont make the magic bag to hot. A magic bag is those things you put in the microwave.
6. Crack them on top of a heated frying pan.
7. The hen has to be broody. If she is not broody, she will not sit. You need a broody hen. A broody hen will sit in the same spot for 28 days without moving except to eat or to take a quick dump, and will be VERY angry if anyone tries to move her. If you are trying to hatch these things you have to keep the temperature within a very narrow constant range for the 28 days. if you do not, the eggs will not hatch. This is why you need a broody hen.
8. go to the pet store. they have lamps for animals and they heat up cages.
9. You can use a heat lamp, because that is what my uncle does,but you have to get it the right temperture, cause they could "cook" or freeze. Also put some hay around them.
10. Put them close to a lamp, and put them in a box with blankets and hot water bottles.
11. lay it in a blanket, don't wrap it in one. and have a lamp over it, about 10 inches away, not too close.
12. Don't listen to lame people who suggest microwaving the eggs!! x p Place them near a lamp on blankets and make sure they aren't too warm. You should try to figure out what exact temperature they need & get a thermometer to you know you're doing it right! I hope they make it! Too bad they don't have maternity classes for mommy chickens!!!!
13. You need a broody hen. You probably won't have much luck without an incubator or a broody hen. If price is the problem for the incubator, you can find some really cheap 3-egg ones. Murray Mcmurray hatchery sells one for $20.
14. You can make an incubator from a foam cooler and a light fixture. Your total investment will be less than $20.
15. Well you cant force the hen to try to hatch the egg but you can put food and water to help incourage the hen to hatch the egg and some breeds just dont like to hatch their own eggs