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aggie2013
In the Brooder
- Sep 20, 2016
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Well I am going to talk with her. Maybe the eggs were older than she realized.
Thank you for your input it's been helpful
Thank you for your input it's been helpful
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Hi! First time poster here. I actually made an account after reading many helpful threads here.
I tried my hand at incubating eggs for the first time. I had a shipment of 14 ameraucana eggs. 9 I put under a broody hen(who hatched 6). The other 5 I incubated with an additional 18 my neighbor gave me. Out of the 23 eggs only 3 chicks hatched (one didn't make it, she didn't absorb her yolk). It's now day 23 almost 24. I have 7 left that I candeled and it doesn't look promising. None of the embryos moved at all.
I took the rest of the eggs outside and cracked/took pictures. Many of them looked liked they stopped right at day 14. Can anyone help me figure out what went so wrong?
Additional information: humidity was kept at 45-49%, temperature in a forced air incubator was at 99.5, I used an automatic egg turner with the fat eggs facing up, and lastly I only candeled days 7,14, and 18.
Therein lies the problem.They were all postal eggs, thats the only similarity.
Thanks for the welcome!!
It is sad... its so demoralising! I mean school classes here hatch them in the classroom!!! Makes me think I'm a really bad "parent'!!!
I am going to go and get local eggs for third time lucky.
It worries me that I have absolutely NO movement or anything. Not even one. Are your sure theres nothing Im missing??
do you have good results dry?