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Just thought I would give an update on my "old" egg incubation. I set 20 eggs last week, the oldest of which were 15 days old at the time of setting. It is day 7 today and I have only had one quitter (14 days old when set), which was fertile but never developed past one tiny vein. Hopefully the...

I keep hand sanitizer bottles all over, partially for this reason. I also own a parrot and so I have to be very careful about changing clothes/shoes after being in contact with the chickens. And of course now with the HPAI bird flu in North America, it's even more important to be mindful of...

The recommendation I went by said to store hatching eggs at 13-18°C (55-65°F), and my basement sits around 15°C/60°F. I keep the main part of my house a bit too warm.

I keep meticulous records so maybe I will start comparing hatch rate to egg age! Thanks :)

The viability dropping doesn't bother me too much, since I won't be putting any other eggs in the incubator. So even if the eggs older than 10 days had a significant reduction in viability, it would still mean more chicks overall. Edit: I can absolutely turn the eggs more often!

My last round had good fertility (14/14) but a few were early quitters and a couple failed to pip. I'm hatching silkies and they don't lay a huge amount of eggs to begin with, about two eggs each every three days.

Hi all, I just wrapped up my first ever hatch on Tuesday, and I'm already planning the next one. I only have two hens whose eggs I will be incubating, so gathering enough eggs to fill my 28-egg incubator is not a realistic goal. However I would like to maximize the number of eggs that I put...