Is this considered a pip?

annmarie33 said:

I so far have had 2 hatches and both 100%. I think it depends on where you live but Amy does dry incubation until lockdown and that works for her. But I do 45-50% until day 18 and 70-75% at lockdown bc I too open it a lot. On day 20 I opened it like 10 times and all hatched fine no shrink wrapping at all. I have genesis 1588 styrofoam bator and I use an automatic egg turner. Some don't turn eggs the first 7 ish days and stop after day 14 I just put it in with the eggs on day 1 and take out day 18. My first batch hatched day 18 so I did lockdown on day 17 this time but they actually all hatched day 21. So every egg or batch will be different. I think if it's a healthy egg you have good chances. For me it seems like it would be hard to mess up. But maybe I've just been lucky these 2 times. My chickens are free range though and have beautifully evenly calciumed eggs...maybe has something to do with it

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annmarie33 said:

I only hatched 6 eggs in both hatches lol but still 100%. I got my money back on the shipped eggs bc most were scrambled and only 1 embryo grew but died late before internally pipping. I actually don't have any other thermometers in the bator to double check. Risky I know but so far both hatches have been with just the readings on the bator. I won't do that next time though. These were extra small eggs and they pipped internally day 19, externally day 20 and hatched day 21. I've learned so much and I love it. Thank you Amy for all your knowledge and helping others. It definitely is something you have to do firsthand to understand and its so interesting how everyone does something a little different

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