true A birds are not common and most of the time poor layers and fertility stinks. i am checking some A bird eggs right now. the incubator is a big deal. i gave 24 eggs to a school here local and they hatched one out of 24 eggs/ we found out that the school cuts the heat down at night and the...
nick--- is right ,i also add a pad to the pan on the last few days. i forget things from time to time. i have high hatch rates in the sportman 1502 but who has 500-600.00 for a incubator setup? i about got skinned by my wife for buying it. but it is unreal......great!!!!
frank
they are hard to hatch and one little thing can cause them to die, ie dirty incubator, temp to hi to low. not turning properly, egg shells are sometime to thick/thin.
ok you asked on temp/days
19 days is about right +- 12 hours
99.5 -100 degrees works for me.
and i do around 60% humd.
but...