dixieandthechicks
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- Mar 30, 2020
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So we are not new to incubating. We have incubated Coturnix quail several times and have two incubators that we run simultaneously. We have a MagicFly incubator and a Harris farms incubator. Historically, the MagicFly has given us the best hatch rates, but we have gotten hatching out of both incubators. We decided to incubate bantam eggs this go round and, of the 12 chicks that have hatched, they've all come from the Harris farms. None of the eggs in the MagicFly even had a single pip on them. We have a hygrometer in the MagicFly and the temperature in the MagicFly did not match the temperature on the display on top (it read about 91.5 instead of 99.5). After moving 9 chicks into the brooder, we decided to move the eggs from the MagicFly to the Harris farms. When we moved the eggs out of the MagicFly and into the Harris farms on day 20, the eggs felt cool. If we leave them in the Harris farms incubator, will we get anything to hatch you think? Or is it just a pipe dream and we have a malfunctioned MagicFly incubator?