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just caught up on the thread, day 18 for me! 31? eggs in that batch if I remember right. Day 10 for the next set, had to toss 3 clears last night so 7 left. I will be moving the day 18's to the hatcher/still air this evening. I haven't been collecting more eggs to set in their place....yet.....
We all carry the weight of "Yet...." for me its waiting for now to get the extra girls I added to my BSL pen to fertilized by the BA and the old BYM sperm dilute. Then I will set a large batch of 1 for trying to sell..
I also have the dilemma of what eggs to set in which hatcher. I have 2 LG still airs that I use for hatching, this next round anyway. I have RIR, WLH, BSL and Meat Project. My issue is that the Meat project have both black and white chicks coming out. Don't know if I'll have room for BSL/WLH/RIR in 1 hatcher. Which is about the easiest way I can hatch them. The WLH and RIR are more important to me since these are the only fertile eggs for those pure breeds. And I will not be getting more, until my roosters mature this summer/fall. Almost hoping home flock eggs end with a few clears..... that's sad.
I am thinking my Rouens due on the 1st can sit in a lower shelf in the homemade bator and hatch there, did this last year when I had like 4 batches all hatching at once. Ducks/chickens and guineas all hatched. That incubator always holds a lot of humidity no matter what. Could use better incubators but I do fine with these I have and am happy w/o high dollar machines. I seem to have better luck with el'cheapos that a lot of people do with state of the art products.
I have two bators. Both styrofoam little giants with turners. One still air, one with a fan. The fan one so far has outdone itself. The still air gave me 7 out of 41. The fan gave me 33 so far, 3 more pips, 1 wiggling, 4 eggs just sitting. I can't complain! All the eggs were from my girls and roo I have here. So no shipping or egg handling issues there. So I just got a fan to install on my still air and see if that helps.
