INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[Sally Sunshine]

It's called the process of elimination, M'Lady...

oh I fully understand the process of elimination M'lord

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

oh I fully understand the process of elimination M'lord

LOL... I'll bet you do! Am I about to be eliminated???

I wish I could have gotten my edit in before you posted...

 

[Sally Sunshine]

sighhhhhh my feet are cold

 

[Sally Sunshine]

my serama are drawing down.... I cheated and candled them

 

[Sally Sunshine]

 

[iPickYupik]

I get my eggs from friends. My oldest silkies should be coming up on 6 months and are not laying yet.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a splash and a crele silkie this time around!

 

[lazyacre]

I have 25 Bielefelder eggs in my Havobator 1588. We are on day 3.

Yesterday I got my first egg from my quail born 6.5 weeks again.

One of my Cream Legbar Roos died today. It looks like he got in a fight we are just not sure with who.

I'm a late 40's broody hen. My two girls are adopted and I'd love to adopt again.

 

[WalnutHill]

well here are three from yesterday. I know two and probably all three are fertile. Right?

Looks like 3 fertile to me.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Well,she is setting now.I think a rat got her and her nest last night.

 

[WalnutHill]

Hey. Guys I'm new to the group and new to raising chickens, I've successfully hatched about 20 or so chicks, I have a styrofoam incubator with turner from tractor supply, it holds about 42 eggs, I keep the temp at 99 and keep a close eye on it , my problem is I'm having only about 7-12 birds hatch successfully, And then i break the rest of the eggs when all said and done and like 30 have well developed chicks in them that never came out, and I don't understand why???????? Is it. Because I leave them sitting in my egg turner during hatching ? I unplug it 3 days befor hatching any help would be appreciated

It's best to remove the eggs from the turner and lay them on the wire for hatching. The primary reason is that the turners are a hazard that newborns don't need to try to navigate, but the turner isn't causing your poor hatch rate.

Have you verified temperatures at the top of the egg throughout incubation with a calibrated thermometer? Is your incubator a still air or a forced air incubator? 99 is a little too low, ideally you want 100F if the incubator has a fan, and a bit higher if it doesn't.

There isn't much more frustrating than having chicks so close to life, then dying in the shell. I'm sure we can help you work through the issues.