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.I'm glad that you agree with the 35%. I hatched a batch of Guinea eggs two years ago from shipped eggs. I had about a 90% success rate on that hatch. So naturally I thought that it could be repeated with chicken eggs. Little did I know the difficulty that I was facing. This batch will be my...

I agree and I have already turned the humidity up to 35% from 30 as I had success with that.

All of you are wonderful for your help. We had a power outage last evening due to wind so we immediately turned on the generator to care for the eggs and appliances. That is why I didn't immediately respond to your entries. Today, I candled the eggs and although the air cell was adequate, there...

I'm back! Last night at 10:00PM started day 21. I had my humidity at 30 in anticipation of increasing it once there was a pip. So far nothing is happening. No noticeable movement of the eggs and no sound. I felt like I needed to do something so I increased the humidity to 35 about 2 hours ago...

You have been so helpful. I really appreciate it. Right now the eggs are in lockdown with the saddle up. They are suppose to hatch tomorrow night. I keep checking to see if the "X" has moved at all, but so far no movement. Maybe tonight. I will follow your lead on the next shipment coming...

Ruby, I have another question. On shipped eggs, I see where people are setting the eggs upright in carton with no rotating for the first 4 days in the incubator. I also have seen where they do a hand rotation daily during those 4 days to prevent the embryo from sticking to the wall, but still...

Thank you for all your help. I am going to candle them, double check the location of the saddle, and then lay them on their side with the saddle up. Hopefully, I will get a hatch. I'll let you know. Thanks again.

I increased the humidity to 30 from 25 and now the air cell is consistent with the 14 day size. I stopped the rotation on day 16 and have the eggs in a cut down egg carton. I read that there is better success with an early rotation stoppage on day 16. The cells do not move around so they are...

It has now been 14 days since I started incubating my shipped BCM eggs. I set my power humidifier at 25 so that I could do a dry incubation. At 7 days I could not see a air cell in the eggs, but there was a dark area in the bottom of the eggs. I left all the eggs incubating to see what happens...

It has now been 14 days since I started incubating my shipped BCM eggs. I set my power humidifier at 25 so that I could do a dry incubation. At 7 days I could not see a air cell in the eggs, but there was a dark area in the bottom of the eggs. I left all the eggs incubating to see what happens...

That's the direction that I am going also. I am starting g my last batch of shipped eggs. I have day old chicks coming to grow with the one chick that hatched. I will try hatching my own next year. It is just too heartbreaking to take the eggs all the way into lockdown and have the babies not...

I was surprised to to hear that " I run my humidity between 20-30% through the entire hatch". It scares me as I don't want stick chicks from low humidity at lockdown. I am in favor of increasing it to 60 at lockdown also. I even thought about 50%. as a compromise. What difficult choices to make...

Here we go! I thought I would get chicks because I have the one baby that hatched and I want her to have some companions as she matures. Right now she is with 20 Guineas the same age. Now for the new eggs. They came this morning and I got out my flashlight that they advertise on tv that police...

I did order from the same person and I am going to follow your instructions exactly. The eggs should come tomorrow or the next day so I will let you know the condition of the eggs. Thanks again, Joey

Thanks, I'll let you know the outcome of this upcoming hatch.

Thank you so much for telling me that. I already have eggs coming this Wednesday, so I will try again for the fun of it, but I agree that buying chicks to start and then hatching my own eggs is the way to go. I am going to start researching tonight. Thanks a lot for all the time you spent...

I will thanks.

Sorry that I wasn't clearer. I had them shipped across the USA. I also just bought a hygometer/thermometer specific for incubators. Now I just need to know what values to maintain. Thanks again for your help.

I bought my eggs from a breeder that has pure Bev Davis line of BCM. This was my first hatch and the eggs were very very dark and extremely difficult to candle. I did see what vaguely looked like an enlarged air cell. I did use a thermometer to check the temp. The Brinsea is only .1 degree...

No, I was not happy with one little hatched chick and 3 fully developed chicks that didn't pip. They had a large air sac, so I think that the problem was from day 18 on when I had the humidity at 72. I was told that the higher humidity caused the membrane to rubberized making it difficult for...