I set eggs and date them so I know when to move them to the hatcher and today I had two hatch a week early. The bator stays very close to 99.5 all the time and it never gets opened unless the eggs are going to lock down so what's the deal?
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I can't offer any knowledge about why they could have hatched early, but did want to say, I just did my first hatch, and my leghorns all hatched late on day 23-24. The rest hatched on day 21. I was wondering if that was just a normal for them. But I guess not, if yours are always early.I checked my notes and verified the dates and sure enough they are 6 days early. I haven't had a hen offer to set yet for more than a few hrs so I don't know if maybe that was enough but it seems that every one of these leg horn eggs hatches a day or two early normally around day 18-19 but never this early. Is an early hatch a breed thing or not? All the leg horns produce a very big egg and large healthy chick so far. I've hatched around 50 so far and haven't lost one up to the four week mark yet. The Cochin chicks I've hatched seem strong to start with then have a rough week the second week. If they survive the second week they are good to go just having hell on days 12-14 after hatch. Started giving them electro lights and probiotic which seems to decrease the mortality rate some but still loosing some.