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Best of luck!

98.5 f (36.9c)

X2. I’ve mostly hatched ducks tho. Just so you know lockdown starts on day 25. Take the turner out and lay the eggs on the hatching tray under the turner.

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Is your incubator one you can customize when it turns the eggs? Very nice! Mine doesn’t even do that. once every 2 hours is fine, but once every hour (maybe slightly more, like hour and a half) is great

Exactly. Wait 24 hours or so and in the meantime make sure the eggs aren’t in the fridge and are at room temp. Put about a half cup of water in the canals. Temp should be at 99.5 Fahrenheit (thats 37.5 Celsius), and after about an our or two after you put the water in, check to see if it’s at...

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Good point

You can keep it in for some time to emphasize that’s the spot you want her to lay

Another way to figure out if they are fertile (mind you this is only if they go broody) but she will lay from 7-10 eggs, about one a day, and on the 7-10th day, she will stop laying. She will also very likely sit on them. I know this is one of the most common ways but I just thought I’d mention that

@Isaac 0 what do you think

I actually just very slightly see something that could be a circle around it...it doesn’t look extremely clear probably because it’s one of her first eggs.

Sure

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But don’t give up hope! Now that they are laying eggs you should get some truly fertile ones soon.

Ok

Also that’s an uneven ratio of drakes to hens...if they are together most of the time they could really hurt or even kill the one hen. Usually a good ratio for healthy fertility is about 4 females for every 1 drake

A white dot means it’s infertile. A white dot with a circle around it means it’s fertile

Then on top of that, if you wash them all kinds of bacteria could get into the egg.