HERE WE GO AGAIN Anyone SETTING Aug 30th - Sept 8th join me!!

I know ;) I am on day 20 but set my eggs in the evening so probably late tomorrow or the next day. Unfortunately my hatcher lost temp down to 99 degrees overnight. I hope things will till be ok.
im sure they will be remember the brooder does leave the eggs to eat and drink so think positive and
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, yes i set mine at night its horrible because you expect them that day . we will have chicks before we know it
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I was getting ready to throw it out. I do the tap test on each egg that has not hatched before I throw it out. I tapped this egg and it tapped back so I put it back in the bator. The shell was just to thick for it to break. Its little beak was about down to a nub where it had been pecking for so long. I pipped it last night but I guess it just had a enough and died.
swindledana post , they did tap test and it taped back but later died kel
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What do u mean tap test ? And what do u mean it died ????
The tap test is where you tap the egg with finger. If there is a chick in there it will respond by tapping its beak on the shell. You can also fill the chick tapping on the egg also. The chick died after it had been trying to pip the egg for so long that it just gave up.
 
im sure they will be remember the brooder does leave the eggs to eat and drink so think positive and
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, yes i set mine at night its horrible because you expect them that day . we will have chicks before we know it
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I set mine at night last night andgot up and checked on it and it was ok but by morning it was down lower... just hate it. I think my next ones I am going to just leave in the incubator I use for the first 18 days and just take out the turner. Unless the other 3 eggs I snuck a few days ago in are looking viable lol!
 
OK : Question lovely people .......... when it's time for lockdown, I have done both ie kept them in the turner (upright) and laid them on their sides and feel like I have had better luck with them upright - but that may just be me .... what do you guys recommend, from your experience, keep in the turner upright to hatch (obviously with turner switched off) or taken out of the turner and laid on their sides?
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OK : Question lovely people .......... when it's time for lockdown, I have done both ie kept them in the turner (upright) and laid them on their sides and feel like I have had better luck with them upright - but that may just be me .... what do you guys recommend, from your experience, keep in the turner upright to hatch (obviously with turner switched off) or taken out of the turner and laid on their sides?
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mine are on there sides but i have to turn them my self and they are always on there sides and my hatches are about 50 ish % but i am new as well , i think its down to luck only and plenty of
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