Is it Me or the incubator?

[WalkingWolf]

If your temps are right and humidity, and your fertilized eggs are still not making it, then it may be something in your environment. Do you wash your hands before turning? What type of heat do you have? Make sure when turning you do NOT turn in one direction only. Each turn should be in the opposite direction as the one before.

 

[BeccaOH]

Incubators baffle me too.

I had a couple awesome hatches in May/June in an LG still air using shipped eggs. So I got a turner and a Hova Bator with fan to incubate and used the LG for hatching. First hatch was 0% on guineas (little to no development). My friend had the other half of the clutch and got about a 50% hatch. I stopped using the turner. My own turkey eggs would hatch at 99%, but shipped eggs started to decline over the summer in hatchability. My last batch of eggs were an expensive investment. About half started to develop, but none finished after about day 18.

I keep my incubators in a basement room where the temperature and humidity is fairly constant.

 

[mstricer]

I thought you weren't supposed to put a bator in the basement? I could be wrong though

 

[drmeyes236]

Mine is also in the basement due to the temp flucuations upstairs. Maybe I will get lucky and all the silkies I have that I don't know the sex will turn out to be hens and they can be my incubators in the spring! The 3 that I do know, I have a roo and to hens neither which have started to lay eggs yet and I am guessing they won't until spring.