Does anyone have any tips or tricks
for the Hova incubator or the GQF incubator to get better hatching rates... even one chick for me is a better hattching rate...
I have a HOVABATOR INCUBATOR that I am using and just purchased a GQF Incubator. The eggs I have in there are of pheasant. I followed the instructions to the "T". Some of the eggs did not fit so I gave them to the chicken... the chicken hatched 2 chicks and left the nest... which is fine i guess. the two chicks are fine except one froze to death at night... but thats understandable... Below is the chicken that hatched the one chick..
The Hova incubator is now being used to hatch the remaining pheasant eggs... but nothing has hatch so far... today is the "DATE" for hatching and nothing... I checked the eggs.. and half were rotten, I threw them out and noticed that some of the eggs had half developed dead chicks in them...
what am I doing wrong??? any help is greatly appriciated. Why did they die? Why have the other eggs not started to hatch? Why dont I hear chicks in them?
About 15 years ago, my family and I were raising ostriches and emus. We could hear chicks chirping inside the egg the day before they hatched...
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Now regarding the GQF incubator, its the new model, 1502 with digital reader... I followed the instructions to the T and I have turkey and pheasant eggs in the incubator... the temp reads at 100 degrees. but i dont know if its good enough. I have candeld the phesant eggs and looks like half are infertile while the other half have blood vessels already showing... Should I leave it alone and see what happens?
im just so stressed out...

I have a HOVABATOR INCUBATOR that I am using and just purchased a GQF Incubator. The eggs I have in there are of pheasant. I followed the instructions to the "T". Some of the eggs did not fit so I gave them to the chicken... the chicken hatched 2 chicks and left the nest... which is fine i guess. the two chicks are fine except one froze to death at night... but thats understandable... Below is the chicken that hatched the one chick..

The Hova incubator is now being used to hatch the remaining pheasant eggs... but nothing has hatch so far... today is the "DATE" for hatching and nothing... I checked the eggs.. and half were rotten, I threw them out and noticed that some of the eggs had half developed dead chicks in them...

About 15 years ago, my family and I were raising ostriches and emus. We could hear chicks chirping inside the egg the day before they hatched...
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Now regarding the GQF incubator, its the new model, 1502 with digital reader... I followed the instructions to the T and I have turkey and pheasant eggs in the incubator... the temp reads at 100 degrees. but i dont know if its good enough. I have candeld the phesant eggs and looks like half are infertile while the other half have blood vessels already showing... Should I leave it alone and see what happens?
im just so stressed out...

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