Your probably running a little on the hot side if you see a lot of early arrivals. Your incubator might say 99.5 but it could be off. Have you calibrated your temps? If most hatch before day 21 I would adjust the temp down .5 for the next hatch and see what happens. There is nothing like...
Well the 2 eggs of mine I put in there hatched a day early. Didn't really care if these two hatched... Waiting for the BCM eggs to hatch. Tomorrow is day 21. Black Friday Copper Marans... **crossing fingers**
The black one above is a bantam cochin/silkie mix and the yellow is a buff...
Yes I'm happy with the numbers. I have two separate Ebay auctions in my incubator. One with 8 eggs are 100% growing and the other Ebay auction of 15 is at 53%.
Down to 17 eggs from 26 today as I found one quitter and the rest were not fertile or never started. Darn Ebay shipped eggs! Due in 8 more days on Friday.
Our hen did the same thing with 2 eggs. They seem to know what eggs are good and bad. Maybe they can smell them going rotten so they remove them from the hatch.
Ok I'm in...
I started 26 eggs last Friday and so they should hatch on the day after Thanksgiving (25th). Two separate ebay auctions: one for 8 BCM eggs and one for 15 BCM. I also put in two bantam eggs from our cochin/frizzle mix to see if we can get more frizzles. I just put a cochin rooster...