I have learned shipping eggs can be a lot of the problem with bad hatches. I have had 12 out of 18 eggs hatched that was shipped and I have had 1 out of 22 hatch. I think it depends on how they are handled and the temp outside. I was really beginning to think it was my incubator because my...
wish you luck. I just had the same thing happen to me with serama eggs. They hatched on day 21. I read they are suppose to hatch on day 19. My nerves were shot by the time it was over with. LOL.
good news i have babies. Had 5 hatch this morning out of the shipped eggs with 2 more peeps. The local eggs I have 3 babies with a few more peeps. They sure took the full 21 days to hatch. I'm glad I waited now.
Me too. I'm about ready to give up on eggs and just buy birds. I do have more peeps so I'm hoping by tomorrow morning I will have some babies to brag about.
I'm new to Serama hatching or should I say lack of. I have a set of eggs that were due to hatch on the 19th. I set them on the 1st of the month. I'm figuring 19 because I had read that they hatch on day 19 than a regular chickens day 21.
This is day 20 and so far I have 3 that finally peeped...
Thanks , I just candled again and the last few eggs I will be lucky if 2 hatch. My incubator is on temp wise and I'm trying the dry method for hatch. My last hatch I had 80% hatch rate so I don't think it is my incubator. Maybe that week was just too hot for shipping. I should know by Tuesday if...
I am new to the shipped eggs. I have a very good incubator ( GQF) that I have always had good hatches in so I thought why not try them.
I ordered 22 eggs off of ebay. I let them set for 24 hours before I placed them in the incubator. I did not turn them for the first 3 days. ( big end up). I...