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Hello everyone!
I am raising chicks from my own flock for someone else and I put in 10 eggs at the beginning because I wanted to have enough eggs to be able to get at least 2 females from the batch,but when I candled them recently only 2 were fertile(my chickens are molting and it's fall weather time!). I decided to get baby chicks from the feed store instead but none of them have chicks right now so late in the year.So I currently have 7 extra eggs(all fertile) in the incubator.The 2 eggs that were put in originally are scheduled to hatch Oct 21st and the rest on Nov 1st.Will the eggs be okay if the time is so radically different?Is there anything I can do to make sure things go smoothly?I have to change the humidity in the incubator 2-3 days before the first two hatch and I'm worried it will harm the other eggs.

I am raising chicks from my own flock for someone else and I put in 10 eggs at the beginning because I wanted to have enough eggs to be able to get at least 2 females from the batch,but when I candled them recently only 2 were fertile(my chickens are molting and it's fall weather time!). I decided to get baby chicks from the feed store instead but none of them have chicks right now so late in the year.So I currently have 7 extra eggs(all fertile) in the incubator.The 2 eggs that were put in originally are scheduled to hatch Oct 21st and the rest on Nov 1st.Will the eggs be okay if the time is so radically different?Is there anything I can do to make sure things go smoothly?I have to change the humidity in the incubator 2-3 days before the first two hatch and I'm worried it will harm the other eggs.
