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Yeah, I have two NR 360 and they revolutionized our hatching. We use one to incubate with and the other to hatch. I started with the little giant styrofoam and honestly dreaded incubating so much I would only do it once a year. Those made me such an anxious mess. Our rates were so much lower too with those types.Thank you for sharing all this data. Seems like your settings are pretty standard.
What kind of incubator are you using? I know we typically primarily hatch our BYM's here and had generally the same stats as you. Usually around 75% if placed eggs and then 90% or so of eggs that made it to lockdown. That was with aN NR360. Recently we switched to an older style bator, and have had much better hatched from placed stats, around 90%. The baseline egg is all the same.
Obviously, shipped eggs are what they are. We have some celadon quail eggs going right now, my first shot at quail. They were shipped and my hopes are low. Day 3 now, I'll probably candle them this weekend.
Keep me posted on your experience with your older bator (I am imagining a styrofoam one simply because that is 'older' to me lol). And on your quail.
Incubator settings: 99.5 F and dry hatching (28-38) natural humidity in wet Western WA.
Hatcher settings: 99.5 and usually have humidity up into the 50s with water added to the wells.
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