How many people were successful on their first try?

[Suburban Sprouts]

I'm getting ready to do my very first incubation... There are so many different factors from shipped eggs, to temperature to keeping the yolks from sticking to egg position...

I'd love to hear some people's account of their successful first attempts!

 

[Brindlebtch]

My first incubator was a brinsea eco advanced, so I got 4 out of 7 first hatch.

 

[smchickfarm]

Just did my very first incubator hatch a couple weeks ago. Had 7 out of 16 hatch. I guess that is not bad for a first timer! Had some humidity issues.

Have 8 more in the incubator due to hatch next Friday

 

[Zahboo]

Not me

but a lot of people are.

 

[Chicky Tocks]

I got 12 chicks with a 97% hatch rate in my homemade bator on the first try. I've never been able to duplicate that though, so I bought a Brinsea. In that I had a 92% hatch rate. I love my new Brinsea.

 

[Suburban Sprouts]

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My bator is a Brinsea too, but not the "advanced" type...

 

[Suburban Sprouts]

Those of you who had successful hatches... were they shipped eggs or your own?

 

[eggsited chickens]

This is my first time. I put 42 eggs in the bator. 11 never developed and they are in the middle of hatching 13 hatched, all but 2 or three are pipped. I'd say we are doing pretty good!

I used the Genesis 1588 kept the humidity around 50%, I had 3 thermometers that ranged between 98-100 and ended up with pips on the end of day 17. I'm going on day 20 and almost half done. Humidity now is upto 70%

These were my own eggs

Hope this helps you!

 

[elmo]

This is my first year at hatching, but I can't take any credit for success. I'm using broody hens. Our first hen hatched six out of six eggs. Our second hen hatched five out of five eggs. And our third hen so far has hatched two, and is sitting on two more eggs, with one of them pipped already.

Hatching under a broody is the lazy way to get chicks, too. The broody hens required very little care from me during the last three weeks. All I had to do was make sure they had fresh water, food if they wanted it, and scoop up one really smelly broody poop per day.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

We hatched 31 out of 35 turkey eggs and seventeen out of twenty four chicken eggs.

The turkey eggs came from my birds. The chicken eggs we bought. We drove them home so they weren't exactly shipped but did get bumped more than they would have if they'd come from my place.

I read a LOT about incubating and hatching before we set the eggs - searches here in BYC and extension service documents and such where ever I could find them. We used a Dickey incubator.

One can never do enough research, but there does come a time when you just have to DO the thing then learn from whatever mistakes you make along the way.

.....Alan.