Hi...I'm on day 2. I feeling like everything I do is lessening the chance of a hatch. I keep forgetting to wash my hands, the temp keeps creeping up and when I open to turn the eggs, the temps nosedive. I see, "No major temp fluctuations" in the instructions and just feel like I am doing everything wrong!!!! If the eggs are so delicate, how does anyone ever get successful with a hatch?????
They're really not all that delicate. We just forget what nature intended. We want every egg to hatch,but in reality,that's why a hen in the wild lays so many eggs and hatches so many chicks. Not every egg will hatch and not every chick will survive. That's just the way it is.
Relax - keep your temps in the right range and you are likely to have SOMETHING hatch! I think what is amazing is not that they are so fragile, but that they are so TOUGH! Think about what an egg goes through and then finally to hatch - it's really amazing. Sit back, keep half an eye on those temps and try to enjoy the next 20 days!! Oh, and post those pics when the pipping starts
its the internal temp of the egg that needs to say very stable it will not change just by opening the lid quick to turn. Good luck