JUST ABOUT FED UP!

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HickoryHollow

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But not quite. My first hatch, I had temp swings, power outages and every other catastrophe you could imagine. I only had a 12% hatch rate. But then again I DID have a 12% hatch rate. My second batch was a spur of the moment decision to do. My wife had washed all the eggs we had on hand, but I decided to take a chance on them. Didn't pay off at all.......got a big 0% this time.

I am about to start a batch of 40. This time, fresh eggs, stored properly. I even have them in an egg turner while I collect enough. They will go in Saturday. If this attempt fails, I think I will hang it up. We will see what happens.
 
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Best of luck to you!
 
That really stinks! What make/model incubator do you use and what was your temp (most of the time) and humidity in there? Let's see if we can figure out what the problem is.
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HickoryHollow said:
But not quite. My first hatch, I had temp swings, power outages and every other catastrophe you could imagine. I only had a 12% hatch rate. But then again I DID have a 12% hatch rate. My second batch was a spur of the moment decision to do. My wife had washed all the eggs we had on hand, but I decided to take a chance on them. Didn't pay off at all.......got a big 0% this time.

I am about to start a batch of 40. This time, fresh eggs, stored properly. I even have them in an egg turner while I collect enough. They will go in Saturday. If this attempt fails, I think I will hang it up. We will see what happens.
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I posted a response on the Diary thread for you
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not sure you got to see it yet
 
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That really stinks! What make/model incubator do you use and what was your temp (most of the time) and humidity in there? Let's see if we can figure out what the problem is.
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The first was in a borrowed LG. The second in a new Farm Innovators I bought. Humidity in both during incubation was around 30%. For the first on, I ran humidity up to about 70% and when I eggtopsied it looked like they were too large, never internally pipped. So on the second batch I dropped the humidity down to about 55%. Temp around 100. I haven't opened them yet, but today is day 23. I will tonight. None were pipped this morning. On my next attempt, I am going to weigh EVERY egg!
 
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