How to get eggs to hatch...

IggiMom

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I got a great big huge egg and I wanted to see if it would hatch. And then I thought, if it did, it would need friends, so I put two eggs in with it.

Well, it didn't hatch. It was clear, not fertile, I guess.

So I still had these two eggs in my LG. I hardly took care of them--I sometimes forgot to turn them, and sadly, I wasn't faithful about the water. I candled once.

My daughter had a baby and I was gone for a week and they got nothing.

Ok--one has hatched, and is all cuddled up to the other egg, which is in the process of hatching.

I almost think there is a moral here. If I would just leave my eggs alone more, I might get better hatches. Usually I can't keep my hands off them. But my daughter was having a baby!

Catherine
 
I've never left mine for a full week, but they have gone a couple of days without turning and been fine. My duck eggs seem to do better if they are turned less, like only twice a day, than if they are in an automatic turner. What a nice surprise to come home to!
 
Well, it will be interesting to see how my present batch of eggs does. They are in my new Lyon incubator. The Lyon turns eggs a little differently. The eggs are on a grid, which only moves them once in a while, not all the time, and it moves them with a little jerk. I am describing it poorly, but it seems to me to be more like what a chicken would do.

I had to fiddle with the temp, but now it is rock solid.

So there is no need to touch them, unless I want to candle. I'll try to keep myself from doing that too much! I'm really excited to see how it does. It is a little hard to get the top off, so it is harder to get them out to candle.

Catherine
 

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