When? Days 1 - 18 no, but 19 - 21, I run between 65 and 70. Thei eggs need to increase the air cell by a certain amount in order for them to hatch correctly. I believe that temps that high in the early days, they won't be able to lose enough.
( also I am not sure what kind of eggs they man gave me he said chicken but there are about 10 in there that are a lot lighter and longer with brown/pink spots and they said all the eggs come from red sex links and Plymouth's. Pulled a plug and the humid is at 44% and the temp it clams to be 99.5 and shows a happy chick popping out of an egg to say safe temp for chicks to develop lol. Some also have hard lump of extra shell on the ends like shell wort should i worry. I am going to start marking them with the x and o next time it turn them about 10 at a time so that i dont have them away from heat to long. I dont care what my babies are as long as they are healthy.
Didn't know there was such a thing as a Nov hatch-a-long. For us, this is not a good time of year to hatch, but DD talked her sci teacher (& parents) into allowing her to do an incubation experiment for her sci fair project. She wants to know if store eggs can be hatched.
So far, we could not obtain fertile chicken eggs from the grocery store (Tried several diff brands & ate plenty of omelets while checking for fertility. Even talked with store managers at Whole Foods & Trader Joes.) We ended up getting some fertile eggs from a farmer's market to compare hatch rates to our own backyard eggs. On a whim we bought some quail eggs from the local grocery store down the street & were very surprised to discover they were fertile. The harder part was obtaining fresh quail hatching eggs for the control group. Being Nov, the egg production & fertility is way down. We had to drive over an hour to obtain quail eggs & even the breeder said few of her eggs would hatch. She said her male quail are present but not actively doing their job this time of year. If our DD really wants to stick with the idea, she can do a few more trials in the spring & enter it as a 4H poultry sci experiment. In the meantime, her school requires that she completes a self-designed experiment that will be due in January.
Anyway, DD started both groups of chicken eggs last week & they should hatch on Thanksgiving. A 2nd incubator was set up for the 3 groups of quail eggs (store, farmer's market, & breeder hatching eggs). Since we never hatched quail before, she decided to keep them separate.
Because we will likely have snow by the time these chicks arrive, a low hatch rate would not be too bad. (My opinion, not hers.)
