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Uneek Poultry is your One Stop Shop for all of your Egg Incubator needs in Australia.

We also keep a range of Hand Selected complimentary products that all Poultry keepers use daily. Uneek Poultry was started by Our Director Andrew from his keen interested in Parrots and Chickens. Having kept them for 30 years as a hobby Andrew continues to do so on their property on the Bass Coast of Victoria. Before this Andrew worked in the Medical instrumentation industry for over 20 years. Usi

ng our extensive industry experience we can help you select the right incubator as well as repair and service your current incubator in our fully equipped workshop.

03/09/2026

Today's dilemma 😁
I found these duck eggs in their run today...
To question is should we incubate them or keep them to eat 🤔
Buff orphington ducks are a great breed.
We had a fox take some of our adults a month ago so I'm thinking incubate.
If I do, who would like to see a video series on what we do?
We can have step by step and people new to incubating can
Learn.
What incubator should we use?

02/09/2026

The question that comes up more than any other with a first incubator: which way up do the eggs go?

Pointy end DOWN, or lying on their side in the turning tray. Never pointy end up.

The air cell sits in the fat end. At day 18 the chick works its beak into that air cell and takes its first breath before it ever pips the shell. Stand the egg on its head and the air cell ends up in the wrong place — the chick pips into fluid instead of air.

At lockdown, off the turner and flat on their sides. From there they sort themselves out.

If your incubator has a moulded tray, it's already built for the right orientation — just follow the shape of the cups and don't fight it.

31/08/2026

Spring's here, and somewhere this week one of your hens is going to flatten herself in a nest box and growl at you.

A broody does a lovely job on a small clutch — a dozen eggs, no power bill, and she raises them for you afterwards. What she won't do is run to a schedule, or take on 40 eggs when you need 40.

So choose deliberately. Want a handful of chicks and you're not fussed about the date? Let her have them. Hatching to a plan this spring? Set the eggs in the incubator and break her properly — half-hearted broody breaking just drags on for weeks.

Either way, check her for mite before she commits. Three weeks sitting still in a warm nest is exactly what red mite are waiting for.

Hen or machine this spring?

28/08/2026

Starter crumble, grit, and water they can't drown in — the brooder questions we get asked most.

Part 4 of From Hatch to Coop is live: what to feed in the first weeks, whether chicks actually need grit, and why the drinker matters as much as the feed.

Chicks won't eat what they can't find, and they'll foul open water within minutes of standing in it. Small things, but they decide how the first fortnight goes.

Link in the first comment.

26/08/2026

"The power went out overnight and the incubator was stone cold when I found it. Are the eggs ruined?"

It comes up on the forums every week, and the answer is usually kinder than people expect. Embryos cope with a cold spell far better than they cope with overheating — a broody hen leaves the nest daily, and eggs have survived hours of chilling more often than not.

Get the power back on and let the unit come up to temperature on its own. Don't wind it up to catch the lost time — that's what actually kills them.

Then expect a late hatch. Development slows while it's cold, so they can run a day or two past the due date. Candle at day 7–10, or a few days after the outage, and look for movement before you write anything off.

24/08/2026

Spring is a week away, and your shed is about to start working against you.

All winter the incubator has been fighting to add heat. From September that flips — a shed sitting at 8°C at dawn can push past 30°C by mid-afternoon once the sun gets on the roof or through a western window.

Incubators are far better at adding heat than shedding it. An hour or two drifting above 37.5°C on a warm afternoon does more damage than a cold night ever did.

Move it off the sunny wall now, out of direct light, and check the reading mid-afternoon on the first properly warm day — not just at breakfast.

21/08/2026

Getting chicks out of the incubator is the easy part. Keeping the brooder right for the six weeks afterwards is where most people second-guess themselves.

The short version: start around 32–35°C under the heat source in week one, then ease it back roughly 3 degrees each week until they're feathered and off heat altogether.

The number is only half of it though. Chicks tell you before the thermometer does — piled up under the heat means too cold, spread out at the far edges and panting means too hot.

We've written the whole step-down week by week in the latest instalment of From Hatch to Coop. Link in the first comment.

19/08/2026

A question that turns up every hatching season, usually somewhere around 2am: "there's something hanging off my chick's belly — do I cut it off?"

No. Never cut it, never pull it.

That's the yolk sac, and the chick draws it in through the navel in the last hours of hatching. It's the food supply that carries it through the first day or two.

What to do instead:
• Leave the chick in the incubator, warm and quiet, and don't handle it — movement is what tears it
• Keep the tray clean, because an open navel is an easy way in for infection
• Give it time. Most sacs are drawn in within a few hours
• If it's still there the next day, or the navel looks wet and swollen, move that chick somewhere on its own — the others will peck at it

A sac that hasn't been absorbed often means the chick hatched a bit early, which usually points to an incubator running slightly warm. Worth checking your temperature before the next batch goes in.

17/08/2026

The first properly warm week of the year is usually when the snakes start moving again.

A brooder full of day-old chicks, or a shed with eggs sitting in it, is exactly what they're after following a winter of not eating.

Worth doing before your spring hatch:
• Walk the shed and block any gap wider than a 20c coin — they get through far less than you'd think
• Use aviary mesh, not chicken wire — chicken wire keeps chooks in, it doesn't keep anything out
• Lift the brooder off the ground and keep a lid on it
• Clear long grass, spilt feed and rodent runs around the shed — the mice arrive first and the snakes follow

Sorting it this week is a lot easier than sorting it at 6am with chicks missing.

14/08/2026

Your chicks hatch, they fluff up in the incubator overnight — and then they need somewhere to go.

The brooder is where a lot of first-timers come unstuck: too little heat, not enough space, or the old lamp-vs-heat-plate debate. Best to have it set up before the hatch, not during it.

Part 2 of our From Hatch to Coop series walks through heat, space and the heat plate vs lamp question, so your brooder's warm and ready before the first chick moves in.

Link in the first comment. 🐤

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm

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http://www.uneekpoultry.com.au/

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