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I am having a problem with my girls also. I had 12 this summer that are 1 year old. And had to remove 3 of them (chicken and dumplings) as I could not get them to stop eating eggs. We hatched 23 more and then had a dog come threw and kill 9 of them two months ago. Since then they have not laid...

I just hatched 16/20 eggs from the fridge

Sounds like they will hatch, I would let it ride and hay is cheap

Here is the update! Hatching started last night with 11 of the 16 hatched! However the new eggs that I am using do not seem to be fertile any longer. I had a friend bring me a older rooster that beat up my young fertile one. So now the older one is shooting blanks, and the young one won't go...

The new incubator I purchased has a fan and egg turner and it is so much easier to keep the setting right

Thanks this new batch were out of the fridge. I washed them off with only warm water after they came up to room temp. After 5 days I candled them and found that about half were quiters. But the good news is the ones that made it are 10 times more active then the ones that I tried to hatch the...

I am still baffled by the chicks that were hatched with the open holes in their bellies

Sounds like good advice. Temps here in Wyoming have been getting in the low 40 at night and snow in the mountains already. So I think this will be my last attempt this year with hatching.

I have two roosters and they do there job well! But this last run I had in the fridge for 3 days before pulling them out and letting them sit for 24 hours before putting them in.

Recently my daughters saved thier money and bought a incubator! Out of 20 eggs only to made it to hatch and did so 1 day early. Both died within 30 min. They had holes in their bellies. We had a hard time keeping temp as 4-5 times a day we had to turn eggs by hand and temps would dive 20-30 each...