Thank you all for the good advice and feedback. I do suspect that the float test had something to do with it. As a newbie, it's so easy to get anxious and want to do things "just right" and unintentionally cause harm. For now, we will be raising 3 day old chicks from the feed store that my Dad...
First time chicken hatching/raising. 12 barnyard mix eggs from local farm. Put in incubator on 4/13. After float testing on 4/30, only 8 deemed viable. Turning stopped, water added and locked down.
Yesterday (Tues) at around 3:30 first chock hatched! (Only day 19 of incubation). Appeared...
