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- Oct 21, 2011
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Well, that's it. No more chicks. 11 of 2 dozen hatched - 2 died. 2 out of a dozen hatched, so far they are alive. So, 11 alive of 36 eggs. I know, shipped eggs are a crap shoot, but I can't help thinking the morning of hatch's incubator issues caused most of these issues. I had rockers that never pipped and died in the shell. I am so ticked off about this incubator and GQF telling me there is a slim to none chance the thermostat malfunctioned on it's first time out. I'm sorry, but the room the incubator was in dealt with 15 degree differences with little adjustment from me. Then all of a sudden a cold morning (not the coldest we had over the last month it's been running) it drops to 88 degrees and I wouldn't gain temps even turned all the way up (it was running at a full turn below all the way up) and the ambient temps raised to 75 degrees. After a day of fighting with it and wrapping it in a blanket, I managed to get it to 99. It maintained a 99-100 degree temp wrapped in a blanket up until the 2nd hatch day. There is no way this is normal and there is definitely something wrong with the incubator.
I agree with you... there's an issue somewhere definitely... I got a used still air, and had over a 90% hatch rate, first time out. And my eggs were shipped as well...