I've been collecting eggs from my 5 Buff Sussex hens and 1 Speckled Sussex so today I put 22 eggs in the incubator. I haven't hatched anything in awhile so I'm pretty excited. I'm already obsessing about them, like I wonder if they will have fertility problems since the Buffs have such fluffy butts, or did the eggs get too cold or too dry or whatever, before we collected them?
Danz, I know Frank Reese said he doesn't worry about the humidity until lockdown but I think in the dry air of winter that might be a problem. I am keeping the humidity around 50%. Did you ever try it his way? I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Maybe in the Spring when the humidity is higher. I did, however, wash the eggs. I washed them first and then TekTrol'ed them. So I hope if there was anything nasty, it is gone now. I still remember him saying "I'm not putting dirty eggs in MY incubator!" We just used Wazine and I read you aren't supposed to collect eggs for hatching while using Wazine. Has that ever been an issue for you? I decided that was silly but now it's just one more thing to obsess about.