Grandpa EGGhead
In the Brooder
- Apr 6, 2020
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I started incubating 20 eggs on March 27th and had to discard 12 after 7-10 days as no development had occurred. When I discarded those I also added 12 more fresh laid eggs which were still warm in the nest box. I had to discard all 12 of them today as there was no development. I'm using the same incubator for the 8 I still have from initial batch which are doing well with movement of chicks being seen when candling, I will stop turning eggs tomorrow, with expected hatch on the 17th. I have 1 rooster per 18 hen flock, what are the chances all 12 were not fertile? I don't think temperature was the issue, however I do have an extra digital thermometer which has read 104 at times while the incubator temp was 99.5-100 This isn't the first time I've incubated eggs, and have used this incubator before. I started out with my own homemade incubator but since have been using one from tsc. What could I have done wrong?