Incubating eggs for the second time any tips

[Bryce Thomas]

Just any tips if you guys have any im so excited to hatch out some baby chicks

 

[Tonyroo]

You've done this before?

 

[Skipper7410]

The day you set is day 0
Also use accurate and calibrated thermo and hydrometer to check your temp and humidity. (Use a couple of them) ..dont trust the incubators.

Edit: forgot to ask, did you have issues the first time?

 

[Bryce Thomas]

You've done this before?

Yas but it was not very successful I didnt know you were supposed to let them hatch naturally I accidentally killed 2 chicks last time : (

 

[Tonyroo]

Are you using shipped eggs or from your own flock?

 

[JesusisGod]

37 cause the incubator fluctuates hot n cold spots different areas. The wire thermometers digital r good
Turn by hand every 2 hours during day some random night moments. Some so called turners just tilts. I don't see how that helps them. Hand fan(straw fan) to stabilize the temp fluctuate when you open lid. The oxygen good for them.
45 degrees they all dead, lost 2 fully developed quails under a brooder lamp

I'm new too at this lol that's why incubator in my room, and the babies

4 Jap quails
1 silkie

12 developing chicken eggs.in "lockdown" technically still opening lid to turn 2 duck 4 other quail eggs but. Might assist if need. Put egg to ur ear last couple days you'll hear it moving. Sometimes I wobble them side to side a lil so they know no not alone forgotten.
Extra fan side helps spread heat more evenly too

 

[Bryce Thomas]

Are you using shipped eggs or from your own flock?

eggs from flock every egg is fertile

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I candle at least 3 times, but usually it's closer to 6 times, starting on day 3 for white eggs. Easier to avoid rotten ones and the less eggs in the incubator, the more room chicks have to weeble wobble without causing problems.

If you can at all, avoid chinabators.

I trust my NR360, but it's never failed me even in rather complicated batches (quail and chicken togsther, cracked eggs, eggs taken from a dead broody, ect).

Understand not every fertile egg will develop and not every developing egg will hatch.

 

[Tonyroo]

Well since it's your own flock, you shouldn't have issues. It will be easy and just follow normal process of incubating.

 

[Ryguy3684]

I candle at day 7, 14, & just before lockdown. I just started marking the air sac with a pencil and have found it helpful. If it's not big enough between day 7 & 14, I'll drop the humidity, and vise versa. Like @JacinLarkwell, I have always had great hatch rates with my NR360. I also like to set my eggs so that day 21 is on a Friday night and I can be home for the weekend to watch the hatch.