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SilkieLoverFarm
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Ha! I love that you actually tried all those! Yeah I think the incuview was my other favorite option. I'm amazed at how stable the 360 is, the humidity stability is mind boggling to me. So awesome. I'm going to have to look at some little high power flash lights to see if I can candle successfully through the window. I'm at two weeks. Lockdown is coming soon. I think I'm going to try my next shipped batch lay down in the turners also. I tried the stand up egg carton hand turning tilting method this time around and I lost so many of them. I can't blame the method. I know it could have been shipping, I had a lot that developed and quit. Could have been the incubator fluctuation. Although the temperature seemed to be really stable. It's hard to say exactly what it was with shipped eggs and the bator I was using. The one that I was using however I have used on my own flocks eggs and it did okay. But it's definitely not rock-solid stable like the 360. I feel like with the 360 I actually have a good chance at a good hatch rate with shipped eggs now. Glad to hear you did!I'm late to this thread but I rather obsessively hatched chicks last year and I readily accepted every incubator that I found a good deal on, lol! You made a good choice on the Nurture Right 360 in my opinion, I now have 2 Nurture Right 360s, an IncuView, and a Hovabator, but I also used a Farm Innovators, Little Giant, and the dreaded China Bator. The order in which I just listed them is my personal preference, so even after trying all of the incubators out, the Nurture Right is still my favorite.
I primarily hatch locally sourced eggs but the one hatch I did in the Nurture Right with shipped eggs went better than expected considering many of the eggs I received had detached or saddled air cells upon arrival and I still had a 88% hatch rate and I placed them directly into the horizontal turner after allowing them to rest.
You might not be able to see the air cell as readily with fresh eggs because as the chick develops the air cell also grows and it lights up better.
I use a small high lumen flashlight for candling and it works fantastic.
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