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Could you make a simple Hatcher to place the 14 day eggs in? They’ll be day 15 tomorrow when you could get the new eggs. The now 15 day old eggs don’t need to be turned anymore - or you hand turn them a day or 2 more. So you’re looking at keeping them at the 99.5 and humidity over 65% starting...

One of the ‘extra’ eggs I had place on top of the turn ring and hand turned a few times a day until day 7 when I was able to place it in a slot due to having 2 non-developing eggs hatched! So that worked!

OMG’ I see a pip on a barred rock egg! *please hatch, please hatch, please be a girl, please be a girl!*

Wow! That’s the fastest hatch I’ve ever had.

First 2 egg pips! Edit to add - make that 3 pips! Im Hoping to get 6-8 hatched out of my flock eggs. Very little hope for the barred rock eggs :(

It doesn’t look promising to me for a day 10 egg :( I’m on hatch watch now. I’ve got chirping! Time to set up the brooder!

I’m very glad to learn the reason behind what I’m told to do! Not only does it help me remember to do things, it’s also reduces worry if I forget and then remember!

Going into lockdown tonight! Took the turner out 2 days ago to try the idea of giving the chicks a bit more time to position themselves. Not that I’m now expecting many chicks :(. Out of 12 Plymouth barred rock eggs none of them look like they’re going to make it :(. The eggs are actually from...

I often don’t see any air cells on fresh laid eggs either. I’ve seen others note that too. Locking the incubator sounds like a good idea :). I’m no help with the egg choosing questions. The one barred rock egg that had a thin spot on the pointy end that I broke open a tiny bit and then ‘fixed’...

For staggered hatching using ‘extra’ eggs Pullety would still have to commit to hand turning the extra eggs for at least the 15 days - until taking the turner out, right?

I wipe down all the eggs with super diluted beach water - 1 or 2 drops in a 1/2 cup of water or so. I dampen a paper towel with the solution and gently wipe the ALL the eggs. I was given this instruction by a person I know that hatches 100s of eggs continuously, doing so for many years. That...

Next batch of eggs - whenever that happens - I think I’ll try your way of having both water rings filled and ALL the air vents open - the one on top plus both A and B side vents open. See what that get me :) I can see where it might be the way to go. I’m already into this trial hatching so may...

I am letting the humidity decrease ‘naturally’ by only opening the B port for a period of time. When I put the plug back in the humidity increases again but not quite as high. It’s been several hours now and it’s down to 52% now with the plug in and the vent wide open (I’ve had it wide open this...

Whew. I’m doing that right now. Using the B port instead of a toothpick propping the lid open. Using the B port I learned from this thread. Never occurred to me during the other 4 hatches to use it- duh! I can see it’s a much better way as I shouldn’t get any drafts on just a few eggs by the...

Ok. I thought I read on this thread that higher humidity can lead to a slightly earlier hatch. I also read that incubators generally have a 20 day hatch vs 21 days with a broody. So that’s probably due to more consistent heat? Well I got a humidity spike last night. Guess I put in too much water...

I want to give an update. This is night 8 so I candled the eggs. The 2 extra that were on top of the ring developed just fine. I’ve been hand turning them a couple of times a day on addition to what turning they got by the incubator. Happened that 2 eggs in the slots didn’t develop at all so...

Ok. Fixed it as best I could. I moved 2 eggs to get smaller eggs in the slots under where the extra egg is. I see that the egg that turns more isn’t really touching the eggs under it - I guess that frees it up to turn more. The egg I fixed - which really is only slightly better positioned I...

Hmm. The picture helps - I can see that the egg that isn’t turning as much is more horizontally positioned. Well that goes with what I had said before - lol! Guess I didn’t realize how horizontal that egg was. Going to go try to fix that now.

You can see the extra eggs at the 1 and 8 locations. I found that the eggs have to be positioned so they straddle the place where the rings meet in my order to get any turning. If you place the eggs horizontally on top of the ring it just moves with the ring - no turning at all. The eggs fit...

I’m doing so many things different this hatch that if it all goes bad I won’t know what the issue(s) were. I decided to add 2 extra eggs in - so have 24 right now of regular sized eggs. The extra 2 are balanced across from each other on the space separating the inner and outer ring. I marked the...