First Batch of Eggs Are In!Update pg 11. It's over!Their out!!!!

[Attack Chicken]

Well I finally found a place that sold us an incubator. It's a Little Giant Still Air one.
The temp in there at the moment is almost 100 degrees. It seems to be working just fine. Tomorrow at 6 am I'm going to put them in there. If everything goes well they might hatch Before New Years. These are the eggs of my beloved Sandy. Does anyone know how long you can keep fertil eggs?

 

[shelleyd2008]

Most say not to store them longer than 7-10 days, as the hatch rate will decrease with the older they get. Make sure you turn them at least once a day while you are storing them.

 

[the1much]

you can keep them in a cool dark place for up to a week and they should be just like day 1,, but after a week, the odds drop till week 2, then ya got REALLY bad odds,,,, and all this is if you kept turning them while there "waiting"


edit ta say,,,, never mind,, she ^^^^ made it a minute faster then me

 

[Attack Chicken]

Well at school the teacher kept them in the fridge for about 2 weeks. We got about 50% hatch but the rest got opened up as they were developing for ag class.

 

[hatchaholic]

Good luck with your hatch.

 

[Attack Chicken]

Their in!!! Just hopefully they hatch. This is my first eggs that I'm trying to hatch.

 

[needmorechickens!]

Good luck...I hope they all hatch for you!

~Rebecca

 

[Attack Chicken]

Just candled them last night. It turns out that there are definitely 4 fertile eggs out of 7. I left the other 3 in there for now to see if their late starters. I looks like I might be having New Years babies hopefully! I'm turning them twice a day, one time at 6 am and the other at 6 pm.

I just can't wait this is my first batch and I think I'm starting to get the hatching fever.

 

[the1much]

you should turn them more then twice a day

 

[magikchick]

I know you should turn them more then twice a day but due to my working that's about all I could do for my last batch. I turned them more on the weekends when I was home. All in all I had a 100% hatch 7 out of 7.