First time hatching chicken eggs. First time dry hatching. Hoping for the best lol

[PhantomSlayer]

I have 2 years under my belt of goose egg incubation. This year went badly for goslings though. So after a good sanitization with bleach. I am gonna try chicken eggs. Unfortunately I leave today for 9 days but I decided instead of our regular hatching method. Lets try a dry hatch. I've heard alot of people say they prefer it but I didn't want to attempt it with goose eggs since we only get so many in a year.

I've set 12 chicken eggs. None should be older than a week.

My mother will be checking in on the incubator while I'm away. However note to self if this dry hatch has a good success rate. I'm gonna need to consider a incubator that doesn't have a low water alarm. The alarm is driving me nuts after only a few hours lol.

So the reason for this post. First I want to share the experience as it happens. I'll be candling on day 9 or 10. I'll update then on progress.

Second reason. I will probably be in the market for a new incubator that'll work with dry hatching. If it doesn't turn out to good. I'm not gonna give up. Might try a second time and also compare to a normal hatch. But I'm still probably going to want another incubator. I had a terrible time this year because we added a second goose into our flock. To many goose eggs our incubator wasn't able to keep up.

So affordable incubator recommendations please!

Preferences: Capable of auto turning goose eggs. Around $100 (A little over is okay but only if its worth it). Our current fits 12 goose eggs with the auto rollers and we bought it 2 years ago for like $70-$80. Our current Incubator. (Front screen lies its only in Celsius lol) What I use as a hatcher cause I have to do staggered hatches.

Bonus: No low water alarm or atleast the ability to turn it off? If that exists?

 

[Tex452]

I have two NR 360 incubators, they are not made for goose eggs I’m sure.
I do 100% dry hatch and have had really good luck.
I bought mine at TSC and they were $170ish, there’s no humidity alarm.
The trouble I’ve been having lately, is eggs not being fertile, even with enough roosters/hen, I get eggs from family and friends, so I really don’t know how they are taken care of.
I hatched out ten last week, and I have some pipping now.
I set the empty incubator with Guinea eggs this week also.
This probably won’t help you much, I just wanted you to know that I have had good luck dry hatching.
I don’t candle until day 18, when I lock them down, that’s the only thing I open the incubator until they hatch.

 

[Susan Skylark]

I left for a week and my humidity was 20% and I got 10/15 on quail, 1 dead in shell all others early quitters (day2-5), so died before I left. Not as good as usual but not bad for a vacation hatch! I love dry hatching, the chicks just fly out of the shell, but not usually that dry!