heavenzeyes
Chirping
- Aug 3, 2015
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Ok so I've gotta lotta different chicken breeds and sizes. I've typically placed the same size & breed eggs together for incubation and have started their lock-down at day 18. However I have a few bantams that have recently started laying eggs & sharing the same nesting spot with the larger gals. I've read that bantam eggs mixed with larger breed eggs can be incubated together. However ,the lock-down day should start at day 16 instead of day 18 when mixed for incubation, due to bantams typically start to pip at day 18. I've never incubated mixed breeds before and my hatch rate has always been 100% success rate. I only have 1 operational incubator and would like to start incubating mixed breed eggs together. SO my question is, when incubating mixed breed eggs which day is best to start lock-down for an overall high success hatch rate?