First Time Incubating

[jnkfarms]

no you are correct. he PIPed the wrong end but so far seems to be ok. He is still moving around inside the egg so I hope he makes it out. I woke up this morning to 3 others that have PIPed. To bad I won't be home till tomorrow morning.

 

[lisaterrell88]

I started incubating my eggs today I am so excited today is day 1 and I still got 20 to go. I am reading all yalls post and I cant wait. Maybe the days will fly by lol

 

[jnkfarms]

Got 11 out so far and 5 more have pip.

 

[subhanalah]

That's so exciting! I just added water to my incubator for the lockdown. Here's hoping for a good hatch like yours!

 

[jnkfarms]

Ill keep my fingers crossed for ya! Now I just got to figure out what breed they are lol

 

[jnkfarms]

Well hatching is over...... Started with 20 eggs.....3 was not fertile when candled at day 7. So that left me with 17. I now have 16 baby chicks, had one that didn't hatch and I opened egg up and poor guy looked deformed. Legs backwards and feet turned way in. So I'd call that a 99% hatch rate in the ole Hovabator.

 

[subhanalah]

Thanks a fantastic hatch rate! I was wondering if you count the infertile ones!

 

[jnkfarms]

I don't because they didn't have any chance at hatching. Can't really blame incubator if you don't give it fertile eggs.

 

[Wishapup]

I've always done that too. Last year, I set around 35 eggs and only 6 were fertile. The result was five chicks (nearly six but something went wrong in the hatching process), so my incubator was not the problem.