Incubating hatching issues

lilmschick

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Feb 11, 2016
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Hello, my name is Adrianna and my fathers has been trying to hatch eggs for the past two months and he hasn't been successful, NONE hatched last month .. this month on the 26th day only 2 eggs hatched and one died and he opened one... It was dead. He's wasted over 30 eggs for being unsuccessful... If anyone can give advice or tips I would appreciate it!
 
Hi :welcome Adrianna

Glad you could join the flock! I'm sorry to hear you have had bad hatches. Incubating and hatching need so many factors to be right for a successful hatch. Incubator temp, humidity, oxygen, turning of the eggs, egg quality & parent bird health just to name a few. I would recomend having a really good read of this link ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101
It has all the information needed on incubating eggs.

Wishing you the very best of luck and enjoy BYC :frow
 
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The temperature always goes down itself ..
 
Hello, my name is Adrianna and my fathers has been trying to hatch eggs for the past two months and he hasn't been successful, NONE hatched last month .. this month on the 26th day only 2 eggs hatched and one died and he opened one... It was dead. He's wasted over 30 eggs for being unsuccessful... If anyone can give advice or tips I would appreciate it!
Welcome to BYC! Glad you joined the flock! Temp, humidity, turning the egg, fertility, egg quality, health of parents are all factors to hatching.
 
My father order the incubator from eBay .. So I'm not sure what brand but it say "HHD" .. The next set of eggs .. What do you recommend I set everything at ?! They are "Gray chicken eggs and hatch chicken eggs" at least that's what my father says they are from Puerto Rico.. I really wanna help him have a successful batch.. Also we have an automatic turner .. How do you guys recommend I do the next batch?! Thanks a tonnnnnn! I will send pictures.

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That's the one that hatched on day 23 .. It's still doing good.
 
My father order the incubator from eBay .. So I'm not sure what brand but it say "HHD" .. The next set of eggs .. What do you recommend I set everything at ?! They are "Gray chicken eggs and hatch chicken eggs" at least that's what my father says they are from Puerto Rico.. I really wanna help him have a successful batch.. Also we have an automatic turner .. How do you guys recommend I do the next batch?! Thanks a tonnnnnn! I will send pictures.



That's the one that hatched on day 23 .. It's still doing good.
To be hatching by 23 days you're on the cold side. Incubation period for chickens should be 21 days. I recommend 100 degrees Fahrenheit. I don't like automatic egg rotators. I like to turn my eggs by hand. You can tell if the eggs are getting close to hatching and if they are still good or dead. I rotate my eggs twice a day usually. Sometimes more or less depending on where I'm at in incubation period. When I feel the chick pecking the shell I stop rotating the egg.
 

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