I recently got my first incubator, an Incuview. I first set turkey eggs, and they started hatching 3 days early, several pipping the wrong end. Out of 20 developed eggs, 10 hatched. A couple pipped and then died, and the rest died without pipping. One of the poults died shortly after hatching, but the rest are still doing really well. I put it down to the fact that it was my first time using an incubator, and it had been too warm for most of the incubation as I was figuring things out.
I set some more eggs, mostly turkey with a few duck, and a week later I added a few chicken eggs. This time, I managed to keep the temperature between 99.5-100 almost the whole time, so I had high hopes. I still turned off the egg turner a day early just in case. They were supposed to hatch yesterday (Wed.), but Sunday night I saw that one had pipped already! Over the next 24 hours 4 ducklings and 3 chicks hatched. One of the chicks bled all over the incubator after hatching, but all are still doing well. Two eggs pipped and then died, and the rest have done nothing.
One thing I noticed was that with both hatches, the eggs that pipped early were on the same side of the incubator, while the ones on the other side died without so much as pipping. I just ordered a second thermometer to check temperatures throughout the incubator. Is my incubator defective, or am I doing something wrong? I increased humidity as soon as I saw the first pip on both hatches. I am very sad and frustrated at this point. I really hate seeing them die like that.
I set some more eggs, mostly turkey with a few duck, and a week later I added a few chicken eggs. This time, I managed to keep the temperature between 99.5-100 almost the whole time, so I had high hopes. I still turned off the egg turner a day early just in case. They were supposed to hatch yesterday (Wed.), but Sunday night I saw that one had pipped already! Over the next 24 hours 4 ducklings and 3 chicks hatched. One of the chicks bled all over the incubator after hatching, but all are still doing well. Two eggs pipped and then died, and the rest have done nothing.
One thing I noticed was that with both hatches, the eggs that pipped early were on the same side of the incubator, while the ones on the other side died without so much as pipping. I just ordered a second thermometer to check temperatures throughout the incubator. Is my incubator defective, or am I doing something wrong? I increased humidity as soon as I saw the first pip on both hatches. I am very sad and frustrated at this point. I really hate seeing them die like that.
