I tried using a box but I guess I did it wrong, always felt like I was going to drop the egg, my cel phone has a great light but I found that using a small high powered flashlight and my hand works the best and quickest.
Yeah, an assisted hatch. The first one that pipped had a brown tint to the membrane, I thought it was drying out but when I gave myself time to think about it later I realized that it was probably just blood from her pipping. I caused it to shrink wrap when I opened the incubator. I killed it...
My first hatch went great.....until I intervened when I shouldn't have. I freaked out, thought I needed to help and lost two chicks out of three. I did a very small clutch for my first hatch, I was worried about having too many and killing all of them. They took two extra days to hatch because...
If it's still air, the temps should be a little higher, so 102 is actually more of where you want to be. I didn't learn that till after my very first hatch. Working on my second now and the growth looks more on time compared to pictures I seen.