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

[PhantomSlayer]

I started with 22, a little over half were fertile, I was concerned about this batch because I had to wait 7 days to get an incubator free to set them in, and I don’t know how long they set before I set them, the first batch I got from my son were no older than 3 days and 20 out of 21 hatched, so far 5 have hatched, I candled the others and I don’t know if they are alive or not, I’m going to give them another day.

Not bad for an unknown setting time. Hopefully more hatch!

 

[PhantomSlayer]

Update! I am home and while letting mamas have babies have failed miserably (its fixable) anyways i couldnt resist candling the 12 eggs. WOW. Only tossed one. However I am having issues with candling 4 greenish eggs.. I mean it looked like they had veins? but not 100% sure. I'll probably still do one more candling before lockdown but the number 11 is kinda scary lol

 

[Tex452]

Update! I am home and while letting mamas have babies have failed miserably (it’s fixable) anyways i couldnt resist candling the 12 eggs. WOW. Only tossed one. However I am having issues with candling 4 greenish eggs.. I mean it looked like they had veins? but not 100% sure. I'll probably still do one more candling before lockdown but the number 11 is kinda scary lol

I found out the reason my last hatch was so poor, where my turn table goes over the shaft, the plastic turn table was cracked, and the eggs weren’t getting turned.
I don’t know how it got cracked, but I will check them periodically from now on.
I usually mark the eggs and take a picture to make sure they are turning, but since I’ve been having good hatching % I didn’t do that in this batch.

 

[PhantomSlayer]

I found out the reason my last hatch was so poor, where my turn table goes over the shaft, the plastic turn table was cracked, and the eggs weren’t getting turned.
I don’t know how it got cracked, but I will check them periodically from now on.
I usually mark the eggs and take a picture to make sure they are turning, but since I’ve been having good hatching % I didn’t do that in this batch.

Sometimes things can be overlooked if were not careful.