any advice for a new hatcher??

[lfrye11]

thank you all so much! this helped a ton. and i do have an automatic turner so i’ll put them in fat side up thanks again!!

 

[RollTideChicken]

I hope you get some chicks!
I'm in my second hatch, the first only yielded one chick and she passed a couple months later. People tell me my incubation probably caused some sort of defect internally, but I don't know.
Any who...as the kind folks here have already said read, read, and read some more. Good luck!!

 

[MountaingateHomestead]

My advise would to allow the eggs to first sit in the egg carton pointy end down for a day at room temperature. I would then heat up your incubator and make sure everything is working correctly. Place the eggs in the incubator laying flat on their sides and rotate them at least three times a day. If you are hatching chicken eggs or upland game birds you want the temperate to be 37.5 degrees Celsius and the humidity to be 50-55%.If you are doing waterfowl you want the humidity to be 55-60%. On day 10 you can candle the eggs and see if they are fertile with a flashlight. Remove any eggs that do not have a red spider vein inside of them. The last three day of the hatch do not rotate the eggs so that they can hatch on the correct side of the egg. Best of luck! You can also check out my Youtube Channel where I do hatches all the time with a variety of species. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSSsSBy85-NWPQbzT-61brQ?view_as=subscriber

 

[Miss717]

Only thing I can think of that you'll probably hear anyway is plug your incubator in a day before, let it level out.

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