Congratulations everyone on the pips and hatches.
Our final count is.......
33 eggs total (no candling for entire hatch) 78% hatch rate.
2 yolks
4 early quitters
1 died during pip
26 hatched
I set mine on the 14th around 6-7pm. I figured that today would be hatch day. I had some pips before I went to bed Saturday night, When I got up, I had some that had hatched, and the majority hatched all on Sunday. I had 8 eggs left over this morning and a very stinky smelling bator. So I assumed the rest were duds or early deaths.
I took the remaining eight eggs out this morning and went out side to open them to see what went wrong with them and wouldn't you know it, the first one I crack open.....starts peeping. Arrrgghh, I run in side and stick it in the bator, it hatched a bit later, but I think it just needed a few more hours because it has a bit of its *cord* left on it's little bum that is still absorbing. So it's in the bator sleeping. Funny though it hadn't pipped at all.
I did open the rest after and 2 had not developed, and 4 were definite early quitters, about day 10-15, and 1 had died during the pip, nothing I could see wrong with it, but sometimes it just happens.
These eggs (home-grown backyard mix) were my test hatch for my new incubator I won here in an auction. It's a Hovabator Genesis 1588 with the fan and pre-set temp. It's preset for a temp. of 100 and my accurite temp/humidity jobby read 100.2 for the whole hatch, so not sure why they hatched early. I'm very happy with the results especially because I didn't candle. I will post pics as soon as I load them on the computer.
*edited because I'm so sleep deprived, I can't spell