How Do Any Incubated Eggs EVER Manage to Hatch!!!!!!

[SandyC]

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?????

 

[ginasmarans]

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.

 

[arlee453]

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

 

[Julie08]

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