Need advice an how to get higher hatch rate.

[Yami]

Hi guys and gals i just finished my 1st hatch and i had i would say i had a 20% hatch any advice on what i can do to get a higher amount?

 

[chicks are life]

What was the humidity and temputure like the whole time?
do you turn the eggs or did you have an auto turner?
what incubator was it?
What breed of eggs did you hatch?
How old were the eggs?
How many times did you candle?
Were they your eggs or did you buy them?
Were they shipped?
How were they stored?

 

[Yami]

Humidity 55 to 60 and last days 65
Temp 99.5 to 100.5
I have an auto turner incubator pro series digital incubator model 4250
Some were a week old others 2 weeks old. Our hens laid the eggs. I candled 2 times. They were on my kitchen shelf before i put them in incubator

 

[Yami]

Does the location of my incubator make a difference? Wheres the best place to have it?

 

[chicks are life]

I don't think location matters I had mine down in the basement were it was cool so I don't think it matters it was probuly the 2 week old eggs that's 14 days I mean they are fine to incubate but to get best hatch rate eggs used within 10 days are best or mabey some eggs weren't fertile.

 

[chicks are life]

Did they stink when you threw them out?

What did you take them out or how many days did you leave in after day 21?
His many eggs did you have and how many hatched out from that amount.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

The most important questions are which hens laid the eggs that hatched and which rooster was it that supposedly provided the sperm? I realize that this runs against all beginners logic but too many roosters or cockerels is more detrimental to egg viability than a few tenths of a degree in temperature.

Seeing that your eggs set on the kitchen counter for X number of days before being consigned to the incubator, just how often were they turned before incubation began?

I cannot think of a worse place to store eggs than the average kitchen.

Besides the swings in temperature there are numerous DANGEROUS (to an egg) chemicals present in the air. Set a fresh laid white shelled egg on the counter and near the stove and observe how bacon grease or other cooking residues find their way onto the shell.

A stand mixer, or even and electric can opener can create enough vibrations to addle the contents of an egg before development can begin. This is without adding any radiation leakage from a microwave.

Eggs that are 14 days old are starting to push viability some and any egg that is older than that is generally a lost cause. Furthermore, viability begins decreasing the moment the egg is laid.

We have yet to get into the subject of the age of the hen who laid the egg or of the rooster who supposedly fertilized it, or how healthy were the prospective parents, nor have we touched on the subject of flock diet and its affect on fertility.

 

[Yami]

I have 1 rooster and 2 hens in one place and 1 rooster and 3 hens in another. I left them in there till day 23. Where is the best place to store eggs before incubation and how often do i turn them before incubation?