I recently tried my first batch of eggs, and I unfortunately didn't get a single chick to develop beyond about day 10 or so. I set 6 eggs.
It was day 17 today - four of them were only dark spots sitting on top of the egg (which I believe would have been the yolk? but it wasn't floating - they didn't move when I turned the egg.) and two had had veins at some point, as I said they looked to be anywhere from day 9 to day 10 when I examined them.
I just don't know where I went wrong. I'm using a Nurture Right 360. The temperature was 99.5 consistently throughout the entire incubation process. It maybe flickered up to 100.0 once or twice when I was messing with the top to candle, but always returned within five minutes. I kept my humidity between 50-55%.
Candling today, I believe my problem may have been the humidity. Except for one of the eggs that had begun to develop, the air cells were very small.
I'm so disappointed but I want to keep trying. I'm getting some fertile hatching eggs shipped, but I don't think fertility should be an issue (we have one roo to four hens) unless the eggs that never developed beyond a dark spot are indicative of infertility.
Are my levels off? I was following the guide that came with my incubator, but I've since learned that at least the humidity was likely wrong. I've also seen some people say the eggs should be at 100/100.5?
My incubator sets eggs on their side - could I have still put the eggs in wrong?
I've tried to read the pinned guides but there's just so much information and a lot of the links lead to threads that have moved and such.
I know that's quite a few questions in one post, but I appreciate any and all answers. Thank you!!
It was day 17 today - four of them were only dark spots sitting on top of the egg (which I believe would have been the yolk? but it wasn't floating - they didn't move when I turned the egg.) and two had had veins at some point, as I said they looked to be anywhere from day 9 to day 10 when I examined them.
I just don't know where I went wrong. I'm using a Nurture Right 360. The temperature was 99.5 consistently throughout the entire incubation process. It maybe flickered up to 100.0 once or twice when I was messing with the top to candle, but always returned within five minutes. I kept my humidity between 50-55%.
Candling today, I believe my problem may have been the humidity. Except for one of the eggs that had begun to develop, the air cells were very small.
I'm so disappointed but I want to keep trying. I'm getting some fertile hatching eggs shipped, but I don't think fertility should be an issue (we have one roo to four hens) unless the eggs that never developed beyond a dark spot are indicative of infertility.
Are my levels off? I was following the guide that came with my incubator, but I've since learned that at least the humidity was likely wrong. I've also seen some people say the eggs should be at 100/100.5?
My incubator sets eggs on their side - could I have still put the eggs in wrong?
I've tried to read the pinned guides but there's just so much information and a lot of the links lead to threads that have moved and such.
I know that's quite a few questions in one post, but I appreciate any and all answers. Thank you!!