Sorry to hear that.
There's nothing more frustrating than someone asking for help, but not taking a thing you say into consideration! And not everything works for everyone. Not everyone can get away doing things the same way. Just because I have high hatches and open my bator frequently, if someone is loosing a lot of chicks, and everything seems to be on track, the first thing I'd say is well, try it with being hands off. If rates come up, that's great. If not, you can rule that out. A lot is trial and error, but if someone who is asking for help won't even try any of your suggestions, it's pointless to waste your time,
I Totally Agree. This Lady asked in the PM how I had such great hatches and If I would help----It was very important to the family that they get better hatches, because that income and food was needed for the family and farm----that's when I told her I would help if she would follow my directions completely for one time. She agreed. She has nice equipment (4 factory cabinet incubators and 2 hatchers)and was planning to get another GQF to try to get more chicks hatched, because of her low hatch rate. I could hatch here in 2 cabinets and one hatcher the numbers she wanted. If her next hatch which is bigger numbers does good---she might be able to turn off a couple of the incubators------this family is awesome and big----13 kids and the 14 about due. If My Directions had on not worked---I would have talked with you AMY to see if we could help her. I never lived in Canada so I did not know if what I do in SC would give her great results there. How I do my Humidity here was a lot different than she was doing there. Must have worked, because she had a 95%+ hatch----we will see in a day or so how the bigger hatch does----I am pulling for her so hard.
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