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Haha! Yes, Finnie, it's spelt sehr. It's been over a year since I last had a lesson in German, it's good to know not all of my knowledge has vanished lol! True, true. But doesn't the incubator turn back on when the power comes back, or does the outage shock the system? Unfortunately the...

I don't mean to be that person... but it's actually das ist gut lol. I took three years of German and it's not often I get to use my knowledge! I had a total of 19 out of 25 fertile eggs hatch I had a total of 40 eggs in my incubator, but 15 of them were infertile. Here's a picture of them...

I have a question. So far, out of 22 that I confirmed were growing, an amazing 16 have hatched! BUT, this 16th chick that hatched had something weird going on with it. For most of the chicks, I've been taking out the chicks from the incubator as soon as they hatch out, so I generally have to...

Two babies have hatched so far! Last night, I saw 7 eggs were pipping. Because these two babies hatched during the night, I wasn't able to take them out before they moved around the other eggs, but they didn't seem to make too much of a mess.

Well.. It's day 20, and I'm starting to get nervous. I hear no cheeping and I don't see any of the eggs moving. I haven't seen if any have internally pipped because I don't know how to do that, but I'm starting to get quite anxious...

Day 14: Technically today is day 16, but I candled on day 14. Second candling showed 22 eggs are definitely, 100%, without a doubt, growing. These eggs had large, thick, obvious veins and I was able to clearly see movement. It appears 3 embryo's may have died, as I marked them as growing on day...

Oh yes, some are definitely harder to hatch/raise. All the breeds of fowl I raise, Silkies, Booted Bantams, and Red Golden Pheasant, HATCH well, but raising the pheasants is hardest, followed by the Silkies, then Booted Bantams are the easiest to raise. The Red Golden Pheasant, out of the other...

I've never had a fertility problem with my eggs, in fact, out of all the eggs both me and my hens have incubated, I could count on one hand how many were infertile. It's hatching that I have such a problem with! :( In other news, my last hatch is officially a failure. The one pheasant...

So it's day 7, and I checked the eggs tonight. I had 25 eggs confirmed as definitely growing(obvious blood vessels seen), 9 that might be growing(blood vessels not seen, but yolk is dark), and 6 duds(completely clear). A lot of people say to keep even the completely clear eggs in until the...

Whether or not to clean your eggs before setting them is really up to the personal preference of the person incubating. I've heard many say "don't clean them at all", others say "clean off the visible debris on the egg", and some say "completely clean the egg in a solution", but all of them will...

Yeah, I realized that's the proper way. I just must've been placing them the wrong way without thinking about it, having the air cell downwards doesn't make sense and I would've known that, but I was probably just mindlessly putting them in the incubator. Thank you!

Thank you! I suppose I'll be posting updates or updating my OP then, I didn't know anybody was interested in seeing the results of my next hatch :)

Oh I see! Thank you for your help. Now that I realized my crucial mistake, I really believe this hatch will be much better!

Yeah I sure if I do I'll find it says that, I just don't remember it saying that. How can I glue the crack when there's no external crack to glue??

Yeah I realized what you meant right after I replied. Well, I believe this is probably the reason why my hatch rate has been so terrible! I'm not sure why I was putting them in that way, I could've sworn the incubator manual said to put them in the way I was putting them. But while I was marking...

I'm talking about the first 18 days of incubation, they shouldn't be internally pipping then??

I need help again. I just made a realization on why I might be having such bad hatches. I've been putting my eggs on my turner so that the pointy end is up, and the round part(air cell) is down. Maybe the air cell part should be up instead of down? I've searched on the internet for the best egg...

I sure hope so. If these tricks I'm gonna do don't work, there's really nothing else I could do :( Learning is fun and I don't mind a bit of hardship trying to get things right, but after three incubations resulting in failure, it gets quite discouraging. I do get tired of throwing away dead...

Okay, so today is day 24, the only chick who hatched has been running around for several hours now, so I called it quits on the hatch and removed the eggs. I noticed that two other eggs had pipped, but their pip hole had been facing downwards, and they didn't successfully hatch. The one chick...

I never said it was perfect. Just good enough that 14 or so healthy, fertile, growing eggs should be hatching, or at the very least, more than one should be hatching. I rinse and clean off any visible debris, then spray bleach on the turner and incubator, then thoroughly rinse off all the bleach...