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Reminder: 25/34 are shipped eggs, 9 from my flock as control 2 of mine were infertile 1 of mine “twins”? I want to post about this separately 1 Isbar infertile 1 Wyandotte infertile 1 Wyandotte double yolker 1 Wyandotte scrambled 1 Wyandotte 4-5 day death 1 Ayam Cemani - 6-7 day death...

Wow, that’s so fascinating that you had such great luck with your method!! I am on day 8 and out of 34 set eggs, 25 are going strong. Fingers crossed!

100% of my barnyard mix and locally bought eggs hatched so it’s got to be a problem with the shipping process and air cell, IMO

I’m in Central Maryland, so not much elevation :)

Did that, too :)

That is a fair analysis. I’ve gotten shipped eggs from CA, FL, LA, and MI

I’ve never lost a chicken hatched on my own property, and I add 3-5 minimum control eggs each time. It’s not the incubator

How’s your hatch??

Let’s hope!!

Got All of them today (a day early! Yay!) and inspected all of the air cells. Only one was visible and on the side of one of the Wyandotte eggs so it’s been marked and I will continue to watch it. I suppose the air cells will be more visible as they sit at room temp overnight

Awesome packaging

Huh, interesting. It was an article here that convinced me to incubate standing up the first week. I’ll have to go find that article and share it to be sure I’m not missing something

If that was true, why do all of the control eggs hatch 100% of the time?

I may switch to the Brinsea incubator at least for the first 18 days as it seemed to have the best hatch rates from the first batch.

With the last hatch (before the horrible one) I assisted 5 of the hatchings, 2 of them ended up dying shortly after and 2 had to be culled (the inbreeding seller) And 1 is going strong I assisted one hatch this time and it ended up being the only shipped egg that hatched! My hundred dollar...

Yes I candled before setting them and 5 or 6 had shifty air cells but after sitting pointy end down for the first 7 days, only 2 still had a shifty cell and didn’t make it past day 7 candling

Quick recap: Bought eggs on eBay end of May, 3 different sellers 1. Out of 13 Wyandotte eggs, 3 hatched and all are doing well. Most didn’t make it past day 7 or weren’t fertile, but we did have one make it to lockdown, pipped and then just stopped and died. We cracked the egg and it was a...