Greetings from Kansas, Beccaz, and ! We are happy you joined our community! Tell us a little about yourself.
Thank you all so much for the welcome I'm having a problem with hatching is there anyone on here that can help me out
I've had chickens and a small homestead for years my husband and my kids and I recently moved to Virginia I just tried my first hatching a few weeks back with not much success out of 16 eggs only to hatch three days apart this particular hatching I put out 12 eggs I had one hatch on day 18 it is now day 23 and nothing else has hatched I'm using the ProSeries digital incubator model 4250 by farm innovators not a super expensive machine but not one of the cheapies either not sure what I'm doing wrong the entire time my temperature said 99.5-100. Humidity for the first 18 days was hovering around between 50 and 60 on day 18 I soon as that check pipped I bumped the humidity up to you 70 So I don't understand why I have such a horribly low hatch right what is going on ? I do not wash the eggs before I put them in the incubator Please help
You can check out the articles in the Learning Center to see if that helps: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-and-raising-chicks Or you can post on this forum, someone there might be able to answer your concerns: https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/5/incubating-hatching-eggs Good luck!
