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Hey all here is a good one for you. We are at day 24 and 25 on different eggs. We did the float test on them today and all of them floated but no movement. We put them all back in the incubator not knowing what to do with them. And low and behold we have three of them moving. So should we let...

So how far behind could they be? And will they still hatch right just take more time?

It is the still air the brand is a hova bator.

Just googled it and you are about 5 hours from me. So please send me a pic of the female and if Like her I will come to you to get her.

How far are you from liberal Kansas? I would like to see picks of your female and if you are not that far away I will come get her.

We candled our eggs today that are on day 18, and marked the air pockets. While we were looking at the eggs and picking out the none viable ones we noticed something very strange. It appears that about 3-4 of our 17 eggs are several days behind the others or very very small. At first we thought...

bump Please advise someone

After 2-3 days of rocking and rolling there is no movement. I checked the chick on day 19 and could not see an air pocket ( but I am new at this) so we figured he was getting ready to pip. He rocked and rolled tell yesterday and today he is not moving. I tried to see if he internally piped and...

I can't seem to get my humidity level up past 50. And tomarrow is day 20 of this batch. We have noticed the egg moving, and I added an extra dish of water this morning to help get the level up but still no go. Any suggestions would be great

Thanks for all your replys. We dont have a seperate incubtor at this time, so we are holding off on raising the humidity for as long as possible. And when we do raise it we will raise it to the lowest possible amount. As for the turning we were able to move the eggs to different places in the...

We are incubating our first set of chicken eggs. We are on day 18 of our first set of eggs and have stopped turning them. While googling tonight I read that when the eggs are ready to hatch they are in something called lockdown. What I am wondering is we have another set of eggs in the incubator...